The Mississippi Oral History Program
Title | The Mississippi Oral History Program PDF eBook |
Author | University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
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Pages | 16 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Community colleges |
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Mississippi Oral History Project
Title | Mississippi Oral History Project PDF eBook |
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The Mississippi Oral History Project
Title | The Mississippi Oral History Project PDF eBook |
Author | Mississippi Humanities Council |
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Release | 1999 |
Genre | Mississippi |
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Remembering Jim Crow
Title | Remembering Jim Crow PDF eBook |
Author | William H. Chafe |
Publisher | New Press, The |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2014-09-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1620970430 |
This “viscerally powerful . . . compilation of firsthand accounts of the Jim Crow era” won the Lillian Smith Book Award and the Carey McWilliams Award (Publisher’s Weekly, starred review). Based on interviews collected by the Behind the Veil Oral History Project at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, this remarkable book presents for the first time the most extensive oral history ever compiled of African American life under segregation. Men and women from all walks of life tell how their most ordinary activities were subjected to profound and unrelenting racial oppression. Yet Remembering Jim Crow is also a testament to how black southerners fought back against systemic racism—building churches and schools, raising children, running businesses, and struggling for respect in a society that denied them the most basic rights. The result is a powerful story of individual and community survival.
Delta Jewels
Title | Delta Jewels PDF eBook |
Author | Alysia Burton Steele |
Publisher | Center Street |
Pages | 397 |
Release | 2015-04-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1455562831 |
Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.
Oral History Collections
Title | Oral History Collections PDF eBook |
Author | Alan M. Meckler |
Publisher | New York : Bowker |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | History |
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Oral History Interviews of the Community Bridges Oral History Project
Title | Oral History Interviews of the Community Bridges Oral History Project PDF eBook |
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Pages | 534 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | African American civic leaders |
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Contains interviews with 21 prominent citizens of Biloxi, Mississippi. Interviewees discuss their childhoods, life along the Gulf Coast during the 20th century, and their work to make south Mississippi a better place.