{"object":[{"sourceId":{"label":"Source ID","value":"72514"},"creditline":{"label":"Credit Line","value":"Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza"},"labelText":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Lynda Blackmon Lowery. An Alabama native dedicated to civil rights since childhood, Lowery was arrested nine times prior to her fifteenth birthday. After being brutally beaten in Selma on \"Bloody Sunday,\" March 7, 1965, she was the youngest among the 300 civil rights activists to complete the five-day, fifty-four-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Lowery is author of the award-winning children's book, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom (2015). \r\n\r\nInterview conducted over Zoom on October 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 17 minutes long."},"invno":{"label":"Object number","value":"2021.001.0100"},"description":{"label":"Description","value":"Videotaped oral history interview with Lynda Blackmon Lowery. An Alabama native dedicated to civil rights since childhood, Lowery was arrested nine times prior to her fifteenth birthday. After being brutally beaten in Selma on \"Bloody Sunday,\" March 7, 1965, she was the youngest among the 300 civil rights activists to complete the five-day, fifty-four-mile march from Selma to Montgomery. Lowery is author of the award-winning children's book, Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom (2015). \r\n\r\nInterview conducted over Zoom on October 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 17 minutes long.\r\n\r\nTechnical 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. \r\n\r\nThe 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."},"medium":{"label":"Medium","value":"Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)"},"onview":{"label":"On View","value":"0"},"media":{"label":"Media","value":[{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/70890/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Video","mediaId":"70890"},{"mediaURL":"https://emuseum.jfk.org/internal/media/dispatcher/70759/full","displayOrder":"0","mediaType":"Image","mediaId":"70759"}]},"title":{"label":"Title","value":"Lynda Blackmon Lowery Oral History"},"classification":{"label":"Classifications","value":"Oral Histories"},"primaryMedia":{"label":"PrimaryMedia","value":"/internal/media/dispatcher/70759/full"},"depth":{"label":"Depth","value":["0E-10"]},"thesconcepts":{"label":"Terms","value":["Interviews","Oral histories","Childhood","Civil rights","Arrest","Author","Protests","Dallas","Alabama","Selma","Montgomery","Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)","Childhood Recollections (OHC)","Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)","Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)"]},"culture":{"label":"Object","value":"Oral history"},"displayDate":{"label":"Date","value":"10/27/2021"},"width":{"label":"Width","value":["0E-10"]},"textEntriesTextentries":{"label":"Curatorial Commentary","value":["This oral history was one of seven featured interviews in the Museum's \"Voices from the Civil Rights Movement\" series on YouTube. This series, uploaded in January and February 2022, commemorated Martin Luther King Jr. Day as well as Black History Month. This interview with a series introduction may be viewed in full here: Voices From the Civil Rights Movement: Lynda Blackmon Lowery - YouTube. Ms. Lowery passed away on December 24, 2025. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator"]},"id":{"label":"Id","value":"66107"},"dimensions":{"label":"Dimensions","value":"Duration: 77 Minutes"},"height":{"label":"Height","value":["0E-10"]}}]}