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Doy Gorton Oral History

Doy Gorton Oral History

Object number2021.001.0062
Date07/27/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Doy Gorton
Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 91 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Doy Gorton. A former New York Times photographer, Gorton grew up in the Mississippi Delta and was an activist with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and Southern Student Organizing Committee. He was present at several historic events of the 1960s, including the 1962 riots during the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, the 1963 March on Washington, "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, the 1965 March Against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. and the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Interview conducted over Zoom on July 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 31 minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Doy Gorton's remarkable career was profiled in a New York Times story, "Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s" by James Estrin, on September 13, 2018. The article, which features a number of Gorton's black and white photographs, may be viewed in full here: Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s - The New York Times (nytimes.com). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator 
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