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Bruce Hartford Oral History

Videotaped 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.

Object Details
Object title:

Bruce Hartford Oral History

Date:

12/02/2022

Medium:

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

Dimensions:

Duration: 93 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2022.001.0084

Curatorial Note:

Bruce 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

Bruce Hartford Oral History

Videotaped 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.

Object Details
Object title:

Bruce Hartford Oral History

Date:

12/02/2022

Terms:

Interviews

Oral histories

Protests

Civil rights

Student

March on Washington

Vietnam

Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

San Francisco

Selma

Montgomery

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Vietnam (OHC)

Medium:

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

Dimensions:

Duration: 93 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2022.001.0084

Curatorial Note:

Bruce 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