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Muriel Tillinghast Oral History

Muriel Tillinghast Oral History

Object number2021.001.0088
Date09/29/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject Muriel Tillinghast
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: 67 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Muriel Tillinghast. While attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., Tillinghast participated in civil rights protests on U.S. Route 40 and assisted with operations during the 1963 March on Washington. A project director with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, Tillinghast was an activist leader in the South in 1964-65 and later worked in the SNCC office in New York City. Interview conducted over Zoom on September 29, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and seven minutes long.
Curatorial Commentary
Muriel Tillinghast contributed the essay, "Depending on Ourselves," to the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (2010). A transcript of her 1991 lecture entitled, "Women and National Liberation Movements," may be accessed from the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation: Women and National Liberation Movements (yale.edu). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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