COMPOUND OBJECT (9 Items)
Women and Tacomas Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss Item Info
- Title:
- Women and Tacomas Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss
- Creator:
- Walker, Kristina L.
- Date Created:
- 2009
- Description:
- Community leader Bil Moss looks back at six decades of social activism and discusses her involvement in Tacomas civil rights movement. She describes her early work to secure open housing in Tacoma, which arose from her personal struggles to purchase property outside the Hilltop area, and her work with the Tacoma Chapter of the Links on the Sickle Cell Project. Moss touches on a number of her civic and political activities in these three lengthy interviews and shares some insights into the social barriers she has faced as an African-American woman.
- Subjects:
- Civic leaders Civil rights Activists Government African Americans Women Pierce County Tacoma Hilltop Politics Social aspects Race relations
- Location:
- Central Tacoma
- Latitude:
- 47.24911
- Longitude:
- -122.480642
- Source:
- Tacoma Community History Project
- Type:
- record
- Format:
- compound_object
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Women and Tacomas Civil Rights Movement: Mrs. Bil Moss", Tacoma Community History Project, University of Washington Tacoma Library
- Reference Link:
- https://erika-b.github.io/tchp/items/chp200904.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Individuals may use project materials for scholarly or research purposes, according to the provisions of fair use, but reproducing, publishing, or broadcasting any oral history project materials requires permission. For more information, see http://content.lib.washington.edu/tacomacommweb/using-projects.html
- Standardized Rights:
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/