/internal/media/dispatcher/75869/fullJanet Heinritz-Canterbury Oral History12/16/2021Duration: 84 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2021.001.01150Videotaped oral history interview with Janet Heinritz-Canterbury. In 1965, Heinritz-Canterbury left college in Wisconsin to become active in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. She joined the staff of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and later worked with the Southern Conference Education Fund in Tennessee. Heinritz-Canterbury was also an anti-war activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on December 16, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-four minutes long.
Oral Histories722960E-100E-1072590Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Janet Heinritz-Canterbury. In 1965, Heinritz-Canterbury left college in Wisconsin to become active in the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama. She joined the staff of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and later worked with the Southern Conference Education Fund in Tennessee. Heinritz-Canterbury was also an anti-Vietnam War activist.
Interview conducted via Zoom on December 16, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and twenty-four minutes long.
InterviewsVietnamOral historiesProtestsCivil rightsSocial and political climate1960sRacismStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)AlabamaTennesseeCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)A transcript of a 2018 University of California, Berkeley program entitled "From Appleton to Gee's Bend," focused on the 1960s activism of Janet Heinritz-Canterbury may be accessed here via the Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Archive: Civil Rights Movement -- Janet Heinritz-Canterbury: From Appleton to Gee's Bend. - Stephen Fagin, Curator