Muriel Tillinghast Oral History
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Muriel Tillinghast Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Muriel Tillinghast. While attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., Tillinghast participated in civil rights protests on U.S. Route 40 and assisted with operations during the 1963 March on Washington. A project director with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, Tillinghast was an activist leader in the South in 1964-65 and later worked in the SNCC office in New York City. Interview conducted over Zoom on September 29, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and seven minutes long.
Muriel Tillinghast Oral History
09/29/2021
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 67 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0088
Muriel Tillinghast contributed the essay, "Depending on Ourselves," to the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (2010). A transcript of her 1991 lecture entitled, "Women and National Liberation Movements," may be accessed from the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation: Women and National Liberation Movements (yale.edu). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
Muriel Tillinghast Oral History
Videotaped oral history interview with Muriel Tillinghast. While attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., Tillinghast participated in civil rights protests on U.S. Route 40 and assisted with operations during the 1963 March on Washington. A project director with the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee in Mississippi, Tillinghast was an activist leader in the South in 1964-65 and later worked in the SNCC office in New York City. Interview conducted over Zoom on September 29, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is one hour and seven minutes long.
Muriel Tillinghast Oral History
09/29/2021
Interviews
Civil rights
Oral histories
Protests
Student
March on Washington
Author
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
Dallas
Washington, D.C.
New York
Mississippi
Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
Born digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
Duration: 67 Minutes
Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
2021.001.0088
Muriel Tillinghast contributed the essay, "Depending on Ourselves," to the book, Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC (2010). A transcript of her 1991 lecture entitled, "Women and National Liberation Movements," may be accessed from the Yale Journal of Law and Liberation: Women and National Liberation Movements (yale.edu). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
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