/internal/media/dispatcher/77025/fullGloria Tucker Oral History09/28/2022Duration: 50 MinutesBorn digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00710Videotaped oral history interview with Gloria Tucker. A native of Batesville, Mississippi, Tucker attended segregated schools and was active in voter registration during the 1964 Freedom Summer project. She was inspired in part by her activism to pursue a career in legal services in the early 1970s.
Interview conducted via Zoom on September 28, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty 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 Histories729510E-100E-1073485Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Gloria Tucker. A native of Batesville, Mississippi, Tucker attended segregated schools and was active in voter registration during the 1964 Freedom Summer project. She was inspired in part by her activism to pursue a career in legal services in the early 1970s.
Interview conducted via Zoom on September 28, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty minutes long.InterviewsCivil rightsOral historiesProtestsSegregationVotingRace relationsIntegrationRacism1960sLegislationVotingCommunity leadersStudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)Ku Klux KlanBatesvilleCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Childhood Recollections (OHC)In 2022-2023, it was my great pleasure to interview three members of the Tucker family from Mississippi, including this recording with Gloria Tucker. In addition, I recorded oral histories with her brother, Allen Tucker (Allen Tucker Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza), and her younger sister, Alice Pretlow (Alice Pretlow Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza). I also recorded an interview with Cheryl Janice Johnson, a classmate of Gloria Tucker. Her interview may be found here: Cheryl Janice Johnson Oral History – Works – The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. - Stephen Fagin, Curator An oral history with Gloria Tucker, recorded by North Mississippi Rural Legal Services Films, may be found here on the organization's YouTube channel: Gloria Tucker, NMRLS Paralegal - YouTube. - Stephen Fagin, Curator The Museum's YouTube channel offers a selection of Oral History interviews featuring voices from the Civil Rights Movement. These interviews include stories from those involved in the Freedom Summer Project of 1964, like Gloria Tucker, and can be accessed on the Museum's YouTube channel here: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement - YouTube. - Riley Harris, Collections Cataloger