# Carrie Lamar Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Little Rock, Arkansas, 2011 September 26

Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including Myrtle Glascoe, Bill Hansen, and Howard Himmelbaum. She remembers registering voters, gathering signatures to overturn a poll tax, and protesting at the Arkansas state capitol. She discusses her marriage to Howard Himmelbaum, suing her employer for discrimination, and working with the group Black United Youth in Little Rock, Arkansas.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 2011
- Runtime: 2 h 5 min
- By: Mosnier, Joseph
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2015669155/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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