/internal/media/dispatcher/72352/fullPenny Patch Oral History04/01/2022Duration: 61 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00200Videotaped oral history interview with Penny Patch. As a college student, Patch participated in civil rights protests on U.S. Route 40 in the early 1960s. After leaving college to focus on her activism, she worked full time for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee from 1962 to 1965 and became the first white woman assigned to a SNCC field project. Patch worked in Gorgia and Mississippi, interacting with numerous sharecroppers and their families, and she once had a live snake thrown at her feet while acting as an election poll watcher in Panola County, Mississippi.
Interview conducted over Zoom on April 1, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 1 minute long.
Technical note: This interview consists of a Zoom audio-video file (.MP4), a Zoom gallery view file (.MP4), a Zoom subtitles file (.VTT), and an isolated Zoom audio track (.MP4A).Oral Histories657190E-100E-1073109Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Penny Patch. As a college student, Patch participated in civil rights protests on U.S. Route 40 in the early 1960s. After leaving college to focus on her activism, she worked full time for the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee from 1962 to 1965 and became the first white woman assigned to a SNCC field project. Patch worked in Georgia and Mississippi, interacting with numerous sharecroppers and their families, and she once had a live snake thrown at her feet while acting as an election poll watcher in Panola County, Mississippi.
Interview conducted over Zoom on April 1, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and one minute long.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesStudentProtestsVotingAuthorStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)MississippiGeorgiaCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Penny Patch contributed the essay, "The Mississippi Cotton Vote," to the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (2010). A 2019 audio oral history recorded by StoryCorps, Inc. with Ms. Patch may be accessed here: Penny Patch’s experience during the civil rights movement – StoryCorps Archive. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator