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Al McSurely Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Al McSurely. A longtime civil rights attorney and anti-poverty activist, McSurely attended the March on Washington in 1963 and was an organizer with the War on Poverty program. Arrested for sedition in Kentucky, McSurely and his family barely escaped a home bombing in 1967. The following year, he recruited a group of Appalachians to join the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.Interview conducted over Zoom on February 22, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 40 minutes long.
Al McSurely Oral History
02/22/2022
Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)
Duration: 100 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2022.001.0007
This 100-minute interview with attorney Al McSurely covers only a portion of his decades-long social rights activism. In recent years, McSurely was the subject of a feature-length documentary, Al: My Brother (2018), produced and directed by journalist Cash Michaels. Featuring interviews with several civil rights icons, including John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the film premiered at The Cary Theater in Cary, North Carolina, in October 2018. It is now available on DVD. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Al McSurely Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Al McSurely. A longtime civil rights attorney and anti-poverty activist, McSurely attended the March on Washington in 1963 and was an organizer with the War on Poverty program. Arrested for sedition in Kentucky, McSurely and his family barely escaped a home bombing in 1967. The following year, he recruited a group of Appalachians to join the Poor People’s Campaign in Washington, D.C.Interview conducted over Zoom on February 22, 2022 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 40 minutes long.
Al McSurely Oral History
02/22/2022
Interviews
Civil rights
Oral histories
Protests
Arrest
Attorney
March on Washington
Poor People's Campaign
Washington, D.C.
Kentucky
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)
Duration: 100 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2022.001.0007
This 100-minute interview with attorney Al McSurely covers only a portion of his decades-long social rights activism. In recent years, McSurely was the subject of a feature-length documentary, Al: My Brother (2018), produced and directed by journalist Cash Michaels. Featuring interviews with several civil rights icons, including John Lewis, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, the film premiered at The Cary Theater in Cary, North Carolina, in October 2018. It is now available on DVD. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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