Roland Freeman Oral History Interview

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An oral history consisting of a single digital video recording (2018.78.5.1). It was collected as part of the Poor People’s Campaign Interviews. In this interview, photographer and folklorist, Roland Freeman, discusses his life and work, and his experience documenting the Mule Train from Marks, Mississippi, to Washington, DC, for the Poor People’s Campaign in 1968. Freeman begins the interview with a brief discussion of his history as an Arabber in Baltimore. He then discusses his experience attending the March on Washington, which inspired him to want to join the freedom struggle, as well as how and why he got into photography. Freeman then turns to a discussion of the Mule Train from Marks, MS, to Washington, DC, for the Poor People’s Campaign. He recalls how he ended up joining the Mule Train, and his experience documenting the movement.

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