Research Catalog

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Description

1. 11 audiocassettes.

Summary

1. The collection consists of 11 audio recordings and 27 moving image recordings focused primarily on her personal collection of material related to the murder of three Civil Rights Movement activists during Freedom Summer in 1964 by members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Subject

1. Forrester, Elizabeth J., 1916-1991
2. Civil rights workers -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
3. African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
4. African American journalists
5. Mississippi -- Race relations

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.
2. Video recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Forrester 2010-03

Note

1. Anne Forrester (June 2, 1941 - June 23, 2006), activist, political scientist, Africanist, diplomat, and international civil servant, began her career as a pan-African scholar and activist then later turned to diplomacy. She served as the American ambassador to Mali from 1979 to 1981 during the Carter administration. At that time she was the third black woman ever to be appointed to the position. Forrester joined the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in 1985 and remained with the UN until she retired in 2001.
2. See the Manuscript, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Anne Forrester collection, 1955-2006 (Sc MG 838).

Author

1. Forrester, Anne, 1941-2006, creator.

Title

1. Anne Forrester audio and moving image collection.

Type of content

1. spoken word
2. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. audio
2. video

Type of carrier

1. audiocassette
2. videocassette

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Forrester 2010-03