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AFC 2010/039: 0086
Siler, Charles E.,
interviewee.
Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Dallas, Texas, 2013 May 10.
2013.
4 video files of 4 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (102 min.) :
digital, sound, color.
1 transcript (46 pages).
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Recorded in Dallas, Texas, on May 10, 2013.
Charles Siler remembers his early life in Louisiana, including a penchant for drawing that began before the age of two, quitting the Boy Scouts when his troop made black Scouts walk behind the horses in a local parade, and picketing Louisiana's segregated State Library as a senior in high school. He was eventually expelled from Southern University because of his activism. He joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was drafted in 1967 and served in the military in the Vietnam War. He continued his civil rights advocacy as he took a variety of positions at cultural institutions and began a career as a cartoonist. The interview closes with Siler's reflections on identity and the process of learning from those who are ideologically different.
Civil Rights History Project Collection (AFC 2010/039), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Collection is open for research. Access to recordings may be restricted. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact.
Charles Siler attended Southern University in Louisiana and became a civil rights activist. He also was a Vietnam veteran, museum curator, and cartoonist.
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005
Siler, Charles E.
Interviews.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
African American artists
Interviews.
African American civil rights workers
Louisiana
Interviews.
Civil rights movements
Louisiana.
Civil rights movements
United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Participation, African American.
Filmed Interviews.
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Interviews.
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Oral histories.
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Video recordings.
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Cline, David P.,
1969-
interviewer.
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
Dallas (Tex.),
event place.
Civil Rights History Project collection
AFC 2010/039: 0086
(DLC) 2012655221
Library of Congress
Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center,
101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540-4610
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home
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afc2010039
Charles Siler oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Dallas, Texas, 2013 May 10
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0086
afc2010039_crhp0086_Siler_transcript
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1 transcript
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