Bruce Hartford Oral History
Object number2022.001.0084
Date12/02/2022
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Bruce Hartford
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: 93 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Bruce Hartford. As a college student in California, Hartford became active with the Congress of Racial Equality and attended the 1963 March on Washington. He later joined the field staff of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and participated in the Selma to Montgomery march and the 1965 SCOPE voter registration project. Hartford actively protested the Vietnam War and was a San Francisco leader with Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Interview conducted via Zoom on December 2, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and thirty-three minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryBruce Hartford developed and administers the Civil Rights Movement Archive (Civil Rights Movement Archive (crmvet.org)), a non-profit web-based archive that chronicles the history of the Southern Civil Rights Movement, 1951-1968. The Sixth Floor Museum is proud to have a selection of our oral histories with civil rights activists featured on the Archive's Vimeo channel. The Sixth Floor Museum showcase may be accessed here: Civil Rights Movement Archive video channel: The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Oral History Collection (vimeo.com). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
