Donald Payton Oral History
Object number2016.001.0041
Date02/26/2016
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Donald Payton
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 97 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Civil rights
- Dealey Plaza
- Researchers
- Dallas County Historical Commission
- The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
- Dallas
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- History of 411 Elm Street and The Sixth Floor Museum (OHC)
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Donald Payton. A longtime Dallas historian and genealogist, Payton was a civil rights activist in the 1960s. While serving on the Dallas County Historical Commission in 1988, he participated in an archaeological dig in Dealey Plaza prior to the construction of The Sixth Floor Museum's Visitors Center.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on February 26, 2016 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty-seven minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryA 107-minute student-led interview with Donald Payton, recorded on March 31, 2017, may be accessed as part of the Southern Methodist University digital collections: Stream Don Peyton (03-31-2017) by smudigitalcollections | Listen online for free on SoundCloud. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Leonard Bernstein
1970 - 1981
