/internal/media/dispatcher/73403/fullEmily Thornton Calvo Oral History05/21/201839 MinutesBorn digital (.wav file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2018.001.00520Audiorecorded oral history interview with Emily Thornton Calvo. Calvo is the daughter of the late Chicago artist Gregory Thornton, whose works included notable paintings featuring the Kennedy brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Calvo and her father were both civil rights activists in the 1960s, and Thornton sold art prints at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
Interview conducted on May 21, 2018 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 39 minutes long.Oral Histories654090E-100E-1055036Oral history0E-10Audio oral history interview with Emily Thornton Calvo. Calvo is the daughter of the late Chicago artist Gregory Thornton, whose works included notable paintings featuring the Kennedy brothers and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Calvo and her father were both civil rights activists in the 1960s, and Thornton sold art prints at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
Interview conducted on May 21, 2018, by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 39 minutes long.Oral historiesArtistArtworkCivil rightsDemocratsKennedy, John F.Kennedy, Robert F.King, Martin Luther, Jr.Democratic PartyDallasChicagoDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Artists (OHC)Popular Culture (OHC)Emily Thornton Calvo is no stranger to oral history. Her late father, artist Gregory Thornton, kept a detailed audio diary from 1977 until his death in 2000. Approximately 10,000 hours of recollections were later donated to the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University in Bloomington. In recent years, Emily has donated her time transcribing a number of her father's recordings and, as of June 2018, is at work on a book about his life as an artist and activist. - Stephen Fagin, Curator