Doy Gorton Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Doy Gorton. A former New York Times photographer, Gorton grew up in the Mississippi Delta and was an activist with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee and Southern Student Organizing Committee. He was present at several historic events of the 1960s, including the 1962 riots during the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi, the 1963 March on Washington, "Bloody Sunday" in Selma, the 1965 March Against the Vietnam War in Washington, D.C. and the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. Interview conducted over Zoom on July 27, 2021 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 1 hour and 31 minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Doy Gorton Oral History

Date:

07/27/2021

Terms:

Civil rights

Oral histories

Photographer

March on Washington

Vietnam

Assassination

Meredith, James

Kennedy, Robert F.

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

Dallas

Washington, D.C.

Selma

Los Angeles

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

News Media (OHC)

Vietnam (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 91 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2021.001.0062

Curatorial Note:

Doy Gorton's remarkable career was profiled in a New York Times story, "Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s" by James Estrin, on September 13, 2018. The article, which features a number of Gorton's black and white photographs, may be viewed in full here: Photographing the White South in the Turbulence of the 1960s - The New York Times (nytimes.com). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator