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HOW
THIS INFORMATION WAS COMPILED:
Information for the project was gathered through
site visits to in-state collections and to the largest
of the out-of-state collections. We queried other
out-of-state archives by letter, phone, and electronic
mail. In all cases, we sifted through interviews
for those with information about the civil rights
movement in Mississippi, focusing on the years between
1954 and 1972. The focus was set by the project
mandate. In general, information about an archive's
interviews on other topics or interviews outside
the time frame are not included.
This bibliography contains references to civil
rights oral history interviews held in Mississippi
college and university archives, state archives,
county and city libraries, county historical societies,
and some independent archives. In addition, we have
included all interviews held in major out-of-state
collections (and some smaller ones). Although there
are some exceptions, this bibliography does not
include interviews conducted by independent researchers
who have not deposited those interviews in public
archives. Many researchers have conducted oral history
interviews in the course of collecting information
for dissertations and books. People interested in
those projects should contact the authors directly.
The creation of this bibliography was the first
project of the Mississippi Civil Rights Documentation
Project, a joint project by USM's Center for Oral
History and Cultural Heritage and the Tougaloo College
Archives.
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