- Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird
- Title:
- Nan Orrock oral history interview, 2016-06-16
- Creator:
- Orrock, Nan Grogan, 1943-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Reisinger, Andrew
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2016-06-16
- Subject:
- Civil rights movement
Race relations
Families
African Americans
Books and reading
Methodist Church - Location:
- United States, Virginia, 37.54812, -77.44675
United States, Virginia, Washington County, Abingdon, 36.70983, -81.97735 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
digital moving image formats - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mpeg
- Description:
- Nan Orrock was born November 8,1943, in Abingdon, Virginia. As a child, Orrock was an avid reader and active in her Methodist youth church group. Orrock got her start in politics through the Civil Rights Movement and went on to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta and Mississippi, led a community civil rights project in Virginia’s Black Belt counties, joined women’s empowerment efforts in Atlanta, and helped launch The Great Speckled Bird.
In this interview, Nan Orrock talks about where she was born and raised and describes what it was like growing up with her family. She also talks about some interests and aspirations she had in her youth. Later in the interview, Orrock discusses politics and shares her family's political views as well as her own. She also reveals how the civil rights movement shaped her worldview. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/GSB/id/10228
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Orrock, Nan, interviewed by Andrew Reisinger, June 16, 2016, Great Speckled Bird Oral History Project, Social Change Collection. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
- Extent:
- 00:44:57
- Original Collection:
- Great Speckled Bird Collection
Social Change Collection - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
