Father Thomas Shepherd Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Father Thomas Shepherd. A onetime recruiter with the NAACP, Father Shepherd later founded a civil rights organization called Awareness, Inc. While living in Kentucky in the mid-1960s, he once participated in a march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on July 21, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-six minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Father Thomas Shepherd Oral History

Date:

07/21/2011

Terms:

Oral histories

Civil rights

Protests

King, Martin Luther, Jr.

Shepherd, Thomas

Awareness, Inc.

NAACP

Dallas

Kentucky

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 56 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2011.001.0061

Curatorial Note:

Father Thomas Shepherd, a resident of Euless, TX at the time of this interview, volunteered for an oral history during a 2011 outreach visit to the downtown Dallas Public Library. Through community outreach, the Museum continues to capture a wide variety of diverse stories from the 1960s. If your organization, church, or community center would like to inquire about oral history outreach in the DFW area, please contact oralhistory@jfk.org. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator