/internal/media/dispatcher/73914/fullGloria Xifaras Clark Oral History04/05/2022Duration: 54 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00210Videotaped 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 Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 54 minutes 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 Histories660830E-100E-1073114Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesProtestsFuneral servicesProcessionEducationDemocratsVietnamWashington, D.C.DartmouthMississippiCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Kennedy Funeral (OHC)Vietnam (OHC)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