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Marilyn Hildreth Interview, 5-24-11 Page 1 of 14 Civil Rights History Project Interview completed by the Southern Oral History Program under contract to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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Joe Mosnier: This is Tuesday, the 24th of May, 2011. My name is Joe Mosnier of the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I’m in...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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Come on and keep walking with me in Oklahoma City. There - we could not live across N.E. 7th Street in Oklahoma City. We could not use the same telephone booths. One...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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But they didn’t deter us. And most of the young people - the thirteen original sit-inners were young people, and we didn’t know fear as fear like we know now. We thought...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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MH: At that particular time, I did not look at it like that. My mother came from a very interesting family. Her father was a dreamer, and my mother was a dreamer....
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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MH: Um-hmm. JM: And yet, she encountered so many situations, and many of them were full of all kinds of risks and dangers and aggressive, hostile people. I’m just wondering if you...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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So, the spokesperson for the NAACP Youth Council is a young lady who’s now a professor at a university down in Georgia by the name of Barbara Posey. And her father was...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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And even - my grandmother was a maid. And my grandmother, in order to educate my mother and her two other siblings, moved into the servant quarters in Nichols Hills to nurse...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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But, then, you had some other people who were kinda mean. A guy threw a chimpanzee on me! JM: Just - I’m going to ask you just to say that again and...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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JM: Tell me about, um, when you think back through those - all of those protests, all of those long, repeated difficult protests, for years, um, what do you - what are...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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MH: I thought my mom had gone crazy. [Laughter] But it was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed joining her on the political campaign, because you can’t out-debate Mom, because you’re...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper
Date:2011
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JM: We’re back on after a short break. And, uh, to conclude today, um, we’re going to talk a little bit about the sanitation workers’ strike in the city, um, in I...
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Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Mosnier, Joseph - Hildreth, Marilyn Luper