/internal/media/dispatcher/79082/fullOpal Mitchell Lee Oral History06/29/201143 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2011.001.00550Videotaped oral history interview with Opal Mitchell Lee. Lee was a dedicated civil rights activist in Texas and California throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She worked for a variety of organizations, including as a specialist with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 29, 2011 by Associate Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is [x hour and x minutes] long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories642140E-100E-1033047Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Opal Mitchell Lee. Lee was a dedicated civil rights activist in Texas and California throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She worked for a variety of organizations, including as a specialist with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 29, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-three minutes long.Oral historiesCivil rightsLee, Opal MitchellEqual Employment Opportunity CommissionDallasCaliforniaCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Ms. Lee passed away on September 2, 2017. - Stephen Fagin, CuratorI met Ms. Lee at the Dallas Public Library while attending an African American Treasures program in 2011. She briefly detailed her memories of the 1960s, and I immediately invited her to record an interview for the Museum's ongoing Oral History Project. She is a great example of a civil rights storyteller whose valuable firsthand account may have been lost forever had we not met by accident that day. The Museum is always seeking new voices for the Oral History Project to share memories of the 1960s. She passed away on September 2, 2017.
For more information about participating in the ongoing Oral History Project, please contact us at oralhistory@jfk.org. - Stephen Fagin, Associate Curator