/internal/media/dispatcher/73752/full"Civil Rights in Dallas" Program12/03/2022Duration: 90 MinutesBorn digital (.mp4 file); Born digital (.wav file); Born digital (.mov file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2022.001.00850Videotaped community conversation program entitled "Civil Rights in Dallas" featuring local civil rights activists Ernest McMillan and Marvin Crenshaw. The panel discussion was moderated by Robert Edison, Curator of Education at the Dallas African American Museum, with an introduction by Dr. Marvin Dulaney, Acting Deputy Director of the Dallas African American Museum.
Public program recorded at and in partnership with the Dallas African American Museum on December 3, 2022. The program is one hour and thirty minutes long.
Technical Note: Program is composed of a master .MP4 video file (9 GB), a .MOV Q&A segment (294 MB), and a .WAV audio master file (892 MB).Oral Histories658120E-100E-1073530Oral history0E-10Videotaped community conversation program entitled "Civil Rights in Dallas" featuring local civil rights activists Ernest McMillan and Marvin Crenshaw. The panel discussion was moderated by Robert Edison, Curator of Education at the Dallas African American Museum, with an introduction by Dr. Marvin Dulaney, Acting Deputy Director of the Dallas African American Museum.
Public program recorded at and in partnership with the Dallas African American Museum on December 3, 2022. The program is one hour and thirty minutes long.InterviewsOral historiesCivil rightsProtestsMcMillan, Marion ErnestDallasDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)This program's moderator, Robert Edison, also recorded an oral history with The Sixth Floor Museum on October 18, 2018. That interview may be accessed here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/59319. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator This program, recorded at and in partnership with the Dallas African American Museum, was part of a series of community conversations in support of the traveling exhibition, Solidarity Now! The 1968 Poor People's Campaign. Organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service in collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the exhibit ran at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza from August 13, 2022 to February 26, 2023. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator A longtime friend of The Sixth Floor Museum, activist Ernest McMillan has participated in a number of public and educational programs over the years. He also recorded oral history interviews in 2006 and 2019. Several of his program recordings may be viewed on the Museum's YouTube channel, including this powerful virtual conversation from 2019 with a group of young people incarcerated at a juvenile detention facility in Los Angeles: Living History with Ernest McMillan (2019) - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator