Gloria Xifaras Clark Oral History

Object number2022.001.0021

Date04/05/2022

ClassificationsOral Histories

Oral history interview subject Gloria Xifaras Clark

Oral history interviewer Stephen Fagin

ObjectOral history

Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

MediumBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)

DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes

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DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Gloria Xifaras Clark. A first-grade teacher in Dartmouth, Massachusetts in 1963, Clark and her husband witnessed the Kennedy funeral procession in Washington D.C. The following year she became a civil rights educator and activist in Mississippi, teaching at Freedom Schools and organizing with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. She was later an anti-Vietnam War activist. Interview conducted over Zoom on April 5, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-four minutes long.

Curatorial Commentary

The Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries includes materials related to her civil rights and social activism. A finding aid, as well as a 1964 photo of Ms. Clark, may be found here: Gloria Xifaras Clark Papers Finding Aid : Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries. - Stephen Fagin, Curator