/internal/media/dispatcher/72350/fullMuriel Tillinghast Oral History09/29/2021Duration: 67 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.00880Videotaped 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 Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 7 minutes long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file, an isolated Zoom combined audio track, and HD video reference of Stephen Fagin in 501 Elm board room.
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 Histories658040E-100E-1072475Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesProtestsStudentMarch on WashingtonAuthorStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)DallasWashington, D.C.New YorkMississippiCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)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