Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Bailey v. Patterson; Belzoni, Miss.; Emmett Till; Fannie Lou Hamer; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Hattiesburg, Miss.; integration of public accommodations; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson Public Library sit-in; lynchings; Mack Frank Parker; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Philadelphia murders; racial discrimination; racial violence; school integration; segregation; Tougaloo College; Vernon Dahmer

4. Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

1 cassette.

Interviewed by Virgia Brooks-Shedd on September 17, 1981

Subjects: Bailey v. Patterson; Charles Evers; Constance Baker Motley; Ernst Borinski; integration; intimidation; Medgar Evers; NAACP; NAACP Legal Defense Fund; racial violence; segregation; Tougaloo College; W.A. Bender

Baker, Donald M., general counsel, Office of Economic Opportunity

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Oral History Collection

Two transcripts (73 pp. and 67 pp.).

Baker, Constance, teacher

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 658. 3 cassettes. Transcript (51 pp.)

Interviewed by Kim Adams on April 1, 1993, and Priscilla Walker on June 7, 1995.

Subjects: Alcorn State University; Baptist Bottom; Clyde Kennard; desegregation; East Jerusalem Quarters; Eureka School; Grace Love School; Great Depression; Haiti; James Meredith; Joyce Ladner; Kelly Settlement; Martin Luther King; racism; NAACP; PTA; Second Ward School; Sixteenth Section School; Third Ward School

Baker, Ella, activist

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Anne Romaine's Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party Oral History

Archive number: OH 81-08.1. Transcript (24 pp.). Not to be duplicated without permission of director, Archives and Library Division.

Interviewed by Anne Romaine on March 25, 1967

Subjects: Amzie Moore; Charles Jones; Council of Federated Organizations; David Dennis; Democratic Party; Democratic National Convention (1964); Jane Stembridge; Joseph Rauh; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; National Council of Churches; racial violence; Robert F. Kennedy; Robert Moses; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Students for Democratic Action; United Auto Workers; Walter Tillow

Baker, George

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 2.34. 20 min. Transcript incomplete.

Interviewed by Wayne Bishop on December 11, 1975

Subjects: integration; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson public schools

Baker, John A., advisor, War on Poverty Task Force

Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Oral History Collection

Four transcripts (29 pp., 46 pp., 57 pp., and 31 pp.).

Bank, Barron, minister and professor

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 94.47. 10 min.

Interviewed by Patrick Brown between March and May, 1994

Subjects: Holmes County; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson State University

Bankhead, Corrine

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

1 cassette (90 min.). Transcript (64 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on November 29, 1995

Banks, Earle W., Jackson funeral home owner and civic activist

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 380. 1 cassette. Transcript (24 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael Garvey on August 26, 1975

Subjects: Jackson State University-riots; Medgar Evers; Neshoba County Democrat Club; Percy Greene; W.J. "Duke" Williams

Banks, Fred L. Jr., Mississippi State Representative and Supreme Court Justice

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Documentation Project

Vol. 706. 1 cassette tape. Transcript (29 pp.)

Interviewed by Charles Bolton on March 5, 1998.

Subjects: Howard University; sit-ins; NAACP Legal Defense Fund; desegregation-freedom of choice; Green v. New Kent County; Alexander v. Holmes; Justice Department suit in Hattiesburg; U.S. v. Hinds County; Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg; school desegregation; Voting Rights Act; working as a legislator; desegregation of Jackson fire department; appointment to circuit court and Mississippi Supreme Court

Bankston, Mable, teacher and member of the American Federation of Teachers

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 76.21. 20 min.

Interviewed by Vera Watson on May 28, 1976

Subjects: Black unionization; social change

Bankston, T.B.

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 DAT tape. Transcript (44 pp.)

Interviewed by Worth Long on October 16, 1999.

Subjects: World War I veterans; plowing with mules; cooking in a chimney; herbal remedies; farming in Grenada; scrapping cotton; arrest; Ku Klux Klan

Barber, Joseph M. "Buster"

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette tape. Rough transcript; not verbatim

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 1, 1992

Subjects: boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; Dusty Jackson shooting; racial violence; shootings

Barber, Rims, Presbyterian minister

1. Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 3.01. 40 min. Interview has summary and subject index.

Interviewed by Elaine Hughes on June 6, 1975

Subjects: Delta Ministry; social change

2. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette tape. Rough transcript, not verbatim

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on February 17, 1994

Subjects: racial discrimination; racial violence; Rudy Shields

3. Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

4 cassettes. Two cassettes may be duplicates. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Owen Brooks on August 30, 1995

4. University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Title: Freedom Summer Interviews

Vol. 626. 2 cassettes. Transcript (pp. 1-12).

Interviewed by John Rachal on July 5, 1995

Subjects: Canton, Miss.; Council of Federated Organizations; David Dennis; Freedom Schools; Freedom Summer; Hollis Watkins; Madison County; McComb, Miss.; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Council of Churches; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter registration

Barbour, Johnny and Clara, Methodist minister and wife

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

2 cassettes. Transcript (30 pp.)

Interviewed by Don Williams on January 25, 1999.

Subjects: Andrew Goodman; attendance at Campbell Junior College and The University of Southern Mississippi; Charles Evers; integration of Jackson city buses and Jackson Zoo; integration of Meridian High School; James Chaney; Meridian; Mickey Schwerner; NAACP; Obie Clark; police intimidation; voter registration

Barnes, Ariel, teacher and librarian

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 718. 2 cassettes. Transcript (31 pp.)

Interviewed by Sarah Rowe on January 4, 1995, and by Priscilla Walker on January 6, 1995.

Subjects: "Blackface" Minstrels; Eureka school; Fisk Jubilee Singers; integration of Hattiesburg Library; Mobile Street in Hattiesburg; PTA; racism; Rowan School; Sixth Street "Colored" branch of Hattiesburg Library; voter registration; Women's Federated Clubs; World War II

Barnes, Thelma

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

Transcript (108 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Owen Brooks and Jerry Ward on July 23, 1996

Barnett, O. H., circuit court judge

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 452. 1 cassette. Transcript (22 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael Garvey on October 24, 1975

Subjects: FBI; integration of the courts; Lawrence T. Rainey; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; Neshoba County

Barnett, Ross R., Mississippi governor, 1960-64

1. John F. Kennedy Library: John Fitzgerald Kennedy Oral History Collection, 1964-1983

Transcript (24 pp.).

Interviewed in 1969

2. Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Oral History Collection

Archive number: OH 82-01. 1 reel-to-reel tape. Transcripts: unedited, edited, final (24 pp.).

Interviewed by John Jones and John Dittmer on February 11, 1981

Subjects: James Meredith; John F. Kennedy; Oxford, Miss.; Robert F. Kennedy; segregation; states' rights; University of Mississippi-integration; University of Mississippi-James Meredith

3. University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 26. Transcript (54 pp.).

Interviewed by Neil McMillen in 1971

Subjects: Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; James Meredith; John F. Kennedy; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; racial attitudes; states' rights; University of Mississippi-James Meredith

Barnhill, Roger, supervisor, Missouri State Board of Probation and Parole, Freedom Summer volunteer

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Title: Freedom Summer Interviews

V Vol. 626. 1 cassette. Transcript (pp. 13-40).

Interviewed by John Rachal on November 17, 1995

Subjects: Biloxi, Miss.; Black Panthers; Council of Federated Organizations; Democratic National Convention (1964); Freedom Schools; Freedom Summer; Freedom Summer training at Oxford, Ohio; Gulfport, Miss.; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Michael Schwerner; Moss Point, Miss.; Pascagoula, Miss.; Pass Christian, Miss.; Rita Schwerner; Robert Moses; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter registration; White Citizens' Council

Barry, Marion

Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

1 cassette. Transcript (13 pp.).

Interviewed by George King in March 1996

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Andrew Goodman; Belzoni, Miss.; Biloxi, Miss.; Brown v Board of Education; Curtis Hayes; Democratic National Convention (1964); Diane Nash; Ella Baker; Emmett Till; Fannie Lou Hamer; Greenwood, Miss.; Hollis Watkins; integration; Itta Bena, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James Chaney; Leflore County; Martin Luther King Jr.; McComb, Miss.; Medgar Evers; Michael Schwerner; Mississippi Delta; NAACP; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; racial violence; Ross R. Barnett; Ruleville, Miss.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Sunflower County; Tupelo, Miss.; Voting Rights Act

Bartle, Eve, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party volunteer

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 0138. Cassette. Transcript.

Bartley, Velma

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

1 cassette (90 min.). Transcript (72 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on February 9, 1996

Bass, Arlene

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 81.27. 20 min. Tape difficult to understand.

Interviewed by Patsy McWilliams on June 2, 1981

Subjects: Philadelphia, Miss.; school integration

Bates, Gladys Noel, educator

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 93.08. 70 min.

Interviewed by Alferdteen Harrison on October 20, 1993

Subjects: Equal pay for teachers

Bates, John and Gladys Noel Bates, educators

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 4.11. 1 hr. 45 min.

Interviewed by Deborah Denard on June 4, 1976

Subjects: Equal pay for teachers; Gladys Noel Bates v. Jackson School Board

Beesley, James

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on February 15, 1992

Beesley, Joan

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on May 16, 1992

Subjects: Alcorn State University; Alcorn State University-state trooper intervention; boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; J.D. Boyd; James Miller

Beittel, A. Daniel, former president, Tougaloo College

1. Millsaps College: Oral History of Mississippi Contemporary Life and Viewpoint

Transcript (52 pp.)

Interviewed by Gordon G. Henderson on June 2, 1965

Subjects: anti-poverty programs; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Civil Rights Act (1964); Delta Project; Freedom Rider/Freedom Rides; Head Start; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson Public Library sit-in; Jackson State University; Martin Luther King Jr.; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Council on Human Relations; NAACP; National Council of Churches; reprisals for participating in civil rights activities; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo College

2. Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

Reel-to-reel tape (JM-08). 2 cassettes.

Subjects: Canton; community action programs; J.F. McRee; Mississippi Action Program; John C. Stennis; John Mudd; Office of Economic Opportunity; Robert Sargent Shriver

Bell, B. L. Jr., educator, resident of Cleveland, Mississippi

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Transcript (68 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on March 4, 1996

Subjects: B.L. Bell Sr.; Cleveland, Miss; Fred Miller; James O. Eastland; Johnny Walls; National Council of Churches; segregation; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; White Citizens' Council

Bell, Bernice née Roper, teacher

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Washington County Oral History Project

Archive number: OH 79.01.5. 1 cassette. Transcripts: verbatim, final

(13 pp.). Index.

Interviewed by Daisy M. Greene on February 25, 1978

Subjects: Leland, Miss.; Leland public schools; school integration

Bell, Josephine, teacher, Natchez public schools

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 675. 3 cassettes. Transcript (66 pp.).

Interviewed by Amy McPhail on October 22, 1996

Subjects: Charles Evers; classroom discipline after desegregation; desegregation; George Metcalf; integration of the Natchez Hotel; Ku Klux Klan; Mamie Lee Mazique; NAACP; Natchez, Miss.; racial violence; racial violence in Natchez; retaliation for belonging to the NAACP; Sadie V. Thompson High School; school integration; violence at the Armstrong tire plant, Natchez; Wallace Jackson

Bell, Leon, pastor, AME Zion Church

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 94.48. 25-35 min.

Interviewed by Charles B. Allen on May 12, 1994

Subjects: role of churches in the civil rights movement; role of women in the civil rights movement

Bellamy, Fay

Columbia University: Student Movements of the 1960s Collection

Transcript (83 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by Ronald J. Grele on November 11, 1984

Subjects: Black power; Clarksdale, Miss.; Cleveland Sellars; Council of Federated Organization; Cynthia Washington; Fannie Lou Hamer; Greene County; Jackson, Miss.; James Bevel; James Farmer; James Forman; John Lewis; Judy Richardson; Martin Luther King Jr.; Robert Moses; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Southern Student Organizing Committee; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Beyers, Bob, Freedom Summer volunteer

Columbia University: Allard K. Lowenstein Project/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Allard K. Lowenstein Archives

1 cassette. Transcript (32 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on February 21, 1990

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Allard Lowenstein; Allard Lowenstein-relations with civil rights leaders; Andrew Goodman; Congress of Racial Equality; Democratic National Convention (1964); Dennis Sweeney; Doug McAdams; Edwin King; Fannie Lou Hamer; Freedom Summer; George Greene; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson State University; Joan Steinbrenner; Marie Steinbrenner; Martin Luther King Jr.; Michael Schwerner; NAACP; National Lawyers' Guild; Robert Moses; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo College

Bishop, E. S., mayor of Corinth

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 358. 1 cassette. Transcript (30 pp.).

Interviewed by Charles Bolton on February 27, 1991

Subjects: Alvin Chambliss; Benton County; Brown v. Board of Education; Corinth; Corinth public schools; desegregation; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Greenwood, Miss.; Jackson State University; school integration; segregation

Black, Edith, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party summer volunteer, Natchez, Mississippi

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 0219. Cassette. Transcript.

Black, Mrs. Floyd, retired teacher

Madison County-Canton Public Library: Madison County Oral History Collection

Archive number: 066. 2 cassettes.

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on September 1, 1982

Subjects: Private academies; resentment of outside agitators; segregation

Black, Maurice R., Mississippi state legislator and assistant attorney general

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 379. 1 cassette. Transcript (21 pp.).

Interviewed by Charles Bolton on July 25, 1991

Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education; desegregation; Legal Education Advisory Committee; Russell Fox; school integration

Blackmon, Mary, teacher, Canton High School, and first black to attend an integrated school in Canton

Madison County-Canton Public Library: Madison County Oral History Collection

Archive number: 027. 1 cassette. Transcript (25 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on April 16, 1982

Subjects: Freedom Summer; school integration; segregation

Blackwell, Unita, mayor, Mayersville, Mississippi

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.53. 1 cassette (1 hr.). Transcript (39 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 10, 1968

Subjects: Child Development Group of Mississippi; Council of Federated Organizations; Democratic National Convention (1964); Democratic Party; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

2. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 17, 1996

3. New York Public Library. Schomburg Center: Community Development Corporation Oral History Project

Transcript (55 pp.).

Interviewed by James Briggs Murray on September 18, 1990

Subjects: Amzie Moore; anti-poverty programs, Charles Bannerman; Coahoma County; Congress of Racial Equality; Crusade for Poverty; Deacons for Defense and Justice; Ed Brown; Edwards, Miss.; Fannie Lou Hamer; Farmers Home Administration; Freedom House (Mayersville, Miss.); Freedom Village, Greenville Miss.; Greenville Air Force Base; Henry Sias; Issaquena, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James O. Eastland; John C. Stennis; June Johnson; Ku Klux Klan; Ladies Auxiliary; Larry Bailey; Larry Farmer; Mayersville, Miss.; Michael Espy; Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE); Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; National Council of Churches; National Urban League; role of churches in the civil rights movement; Ruleville, Miss.; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Willie Bailey; Winona, Miss.

4. Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette. (1 hr.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on August 19, 1978

Subjects: Coahoma County; Issaquena County; Mayersville, Miss.

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

5. University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 334. 4 cassette tapes. Transcript (68 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael Garvey on April 21 and May 12, 1977

Subjects: civil rights movement; growing up in the Delta; Mayersville, Miss.; Mississippi Freedom Democratic party; school desegregation in Sharkey and Issaquena Counties; sharecropping

Blass, William J.

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 639. 4 cassettes. Transcript (88 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on March 26, 1977

Subjects: Biloxi, Miss.; Bob Cannada; Bob Kenner; Boyce Holleman; Boyce Holleman vote fraud case; Brown v. Board of Education; desegregation; James Meredith; Ross R. Barnett; Tom Brady; University of Mississippi-integration; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; White Citizens' Council

Blessey, Gerald Henry, attorney and state legislator, Mississippi

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Oral History Collection

Archive number: OH 76-02. Reel-to-reel tape. Transcripts: unedited, edited, approved by Blessey.

Interviewed by Hank T. Holmes on July 22, 1975

Subjects: Council of Federated Organizations; Edwin Walker; James Meredith; James P. Coleman; Ku Klux Klan; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; racial violence; Ross R. Barnett; Sidna Brower; Tougaloo College; University of Mississippi-integration

Block, Sam see Interview with ten members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Boal, Nina, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party summer volunteer, Quitman, Mississippi

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive numbers: 359-2 and 360-1. 2 cassettes (3 sides).

Bolden, Billy, college teacher

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 29, 1992

Bond, Julian, civil rights leader

Columbia University: Allard K. Lowenstein Project/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Allard K. Lowenstein Archives

Archive number: 1485. 1 cassette. Transcript (21 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on December 18, 1990

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Allard Lowenstein-relations to Robert Moses; Allard Lowenstein-split with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Courtland Cox; Dennis Sweeney; Edwin King; Eldridge W. Steptoe; Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. and the NAACP; Freedom Vote; Friends of SNCC; Gloster Current; James Forman; Lawrence Guyot; Martin Luther King Jr.; NAACP; National Lawyers' Guild; Robert Moses; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Stoney Cooks; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Booth, Heather, Freedom Summer volunteer and community action consultant

Columbia University: Student Movements of the 1960s Collection

Cassette (131 min.). Transcript (77pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by Ronald J. Grele on December 19, 1984

Subjects: Amzie Moore; Andrew Goodman; Brookhaven, Miss.; Charles McDew; Cleveland, Miss.; Democratic National Convention (1964); Fannie Lou Hamer; Freedom Schools; Freedom Summer training at Oxford, Ohio; James Chaney; Medical Committee for Human Rights; Michael Schwerner; Pete Seeger; Robert Moses; Shaw, Miss.; Staughton Lynd; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Booth, Mary C., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee field secretary and director, Greenwood Movement

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.56. Transcript (30 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 7, 1968

Subjects: anti-poverty programs; Greenwood, Miss.; Greenwood Movement; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-disintegration

Borinski, Ernst, sociology professor, Tougaloo College

1. Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Oral History Collection

Archive number: OPH 326. 1 reel-to-reel tape. Transcripts: verbatim; edited (27 pp.).

Interviewed by John Jones on January 27, 1980

Subjects: Alcorn State University; Brown v. Board of Education; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson State University; NAACP

2. Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Oral History Collection

Archive number: OPH 327. 1 reel-to-reel tape. Transcript (31 pp.).

Interviewed by John Jones on March 9, 1980

Subjects: A. Daniel Beittel; black backlash; black power movement; Brown v. Board of Education; Claude Ramsey; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; Democratic National Convention (1964); Eddie O'Neal; National Lawyers' Committee; policy of interposition; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; states' rights; Stokely Carmichael; Tougaloo College; White Citizens' Council

3. Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

1 cassette (2 hrs.).

Interviewed by Jerry Ward on December 10, 1980

Subjects: Millsaps College; Tougaloo College

4. Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

2 cassettes (4 hr.).

Subjects: race relations; Social Science Forum; Tougaloo College; Tougaloo College 1954-1966

5. Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

Transcript (131 pp.).

Interviewed by John Jones on January 27 and March 9, 1980

Subjects: civil rights laws-evolution of; forcing racial confrontation; Tougaloo College-white student exchange

Bosanquet, Nicholas

Columbia University: Allard K. Lowenstein Project/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Allard K. Lowenstein Archives

Archive number: 1485. Cassette. Transcript (32 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on October 14, 1990

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Allard Lowenstein; Curtis Hayes; Democratic Party; Edith Green; Edwin King; Ella Baker; Freedom Summer; Freedom Summer training at Oxford, Ohio; Hollis Watkins; Jackson, Miss.; John Doar; Justice Department; Marian Edelman Wright; Martin Luther King Jr.; National Lawyers' Guild; Robert F. Kennedy; Robert Moses; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo College

Boutwell, Charles, manager of an apparel plant

Madison County-Canton Public Library: Madison County Oral History Collection

Archive number: 036. 2 cassettes. Transcript (47 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on May 18, 1982

Subjects: Civil Rights Act (1964); integration in the workplace

Bowie, Harry, Delta Ministry and Southern Regional Council

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.57. Transcript (39 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 8, 1968

Subjects: Delta Ministry; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party-national political force for black Mississippians

2. Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (2 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent between May 28 and June 10, 1978

Subjects: Arlene O'Quinn; bombings; Freedom Summer; McComb Miss.: McComb Movement; racial violence; Society Hill Church

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

3. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Southern Politics Oral History Collection

Archive number: A98. Tape. Transcript.

Interviewed by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries on March 31, 1974

Subjects: Black Liberation Army; Bolivar County; bombings; Delta Foundation; Democratic Party; Gandhian nonviolence; Green County; Greenville, Miss.; Holmes County; James O. Eastland; John Bell Williams; Martin Luther King Jr.; John Lewis; Mileston, Miss.; Mississippi Delta; Mound Bayou, Miss.; Republican Party; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Sunflower County; Vicksburg, Miss.

Also in Southern Regional Council's Will the Circle Be Unbroken Collection

Bowie, Ura

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

4 cassettes. Two cassettes may be duplicates. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on September 8, 1995

Boyd, Earline, Hattiesburg NAACP activist

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 383. 1 cassette. Transcript (pp.19-31; pp. 1-19 contain an interview with Richard Boyd that does not deal with the civil rights movement).

Interviewed by Charles Bolton on September 29, 1992

Subjects: Democratic National Convention (1964); Forrest County; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Hattiesburg, Miss.; integration of public accommodations; Jones County; Kelly Settlement; Ku Klux Klan; McComb, Miss.; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; Theron Lynd; Vernon Dahmer; voter registration

Braden, Anne

Columbia University: Student Movements of the 1960s Collection

Part 3: transcript (pp. 145-205). Unprocessed. Can be seen in Columbia's Oral History Research Office.

Interviewed by Lenore Bredeson Hogan in 1978 and on June 11, 1980

Subjects: Amzie Moore; Arthur Kinoy; Charlie Jones; Civil Rights Act (1964); Clarksdale, Miss.; Cleveland, Miss.; Ella Baker; Fred Shuttlesworth; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson Movement; James Forman; James O. Eastland; Jane Stembridge; Jim Dombrowski; John Lewis; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Delta; NAACP; racial violence; Robert Moses; Robert Zellner; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Southern Regional Council; Southern Student Organizing Committee; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo; William Kunstler

Bradford, James C., one of the Tougaloo Nine

Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive number: 003. 1 cassette. Transcript (24 pp.).

Interviewed by Worth Long on April 30, 1983

Subjects: demonstrations; Fred Mangrum; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson Public Library sit-in; Jackson Movement; Medgar Evers; Memphis Norton; NAACP; NAACP Youth Chapter; police brutality; sit-ins; Tougaloo College; violence

Bradford, Louise, resident of Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Transcript (62 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on April 22, 1996

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Clarksdale, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James Meredith; Meredith March; NAACP; racism; Stovall, Miss.

Brady, Thomas Pickens, Mississippi supreme court justice

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 2. Transcript: Part I (48 pp.); Part II (72 pp.). Includes a tape log.

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on March 4, 1972

Subjects: allegations of communist influence in the civil rights movement; black diaspora; Civil Rights Act (1964); Democratic National Convention (1964); Dixiecrat movement; Greenwood, Miss.; integration; Ku Klux Klan; Sons of the White Camellias; White Citizens' Council

Branch, Raylawni

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol.682. 2 cassettes. Transcript (41 pp.).

Interviewed by Kim Adams on October 25, 1993

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Aubrey K. Lucas; Clyde Kennard; Council of Federated Organizations; Delta Ministry; Elaine Armstrong; Elizabeth Harkins; Ellie Dahmer; Emmett Till; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Jimmy C. Fairley; Jackson State University; Louis Till; lynchings; Medgar Evers; Myrlie Evers; NAACP; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; University of Southern Mississippi-integration; University of Southern Mississippi-Raylawni Branch; Vernon Dahmer; voter registration

Brandon, Artemeasie

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby May 18, 1992

Subjects: Alcorn State University; boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; freedom of choice; school integration; voter registration

Brandon, Carl

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on April 30, 1992

Subjects: Alcorn State University; boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; Deacons for Defense and Justice; freedom of choice; J.D. Boyd; Medgar Evers; school integration; segregation.

Brandon, Dorothy

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. Rough transcript; not verbatim.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on August 5, 1992

Subjects: police harassment; Rudy Shields

Brandon, Ernest Kennedy and Ruth Juanita Stewart

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. Rough transcript; not verbatim.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on September 11, 1994

Subjects: school integration; segregation.

Brandon, Marjorie

1. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on May 4, 1992

Subjects: boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; Charles Evers; Freedom Fund; freedom of choice; Head Start; James Dorsey; Melvin McFatter; NAACP; school integration; voter registration

2. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 23, 1996

Brandon-Sidney, Barbara

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on June 30, 1992

Britt, Travis, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee volunteer and Freedom Rider

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.62. Transcript (30 pp.).

Interviewed by James M. Mosby Jr. on September 24, 1968

Subjects: McComb, Miss.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter registration

Britton, Lamar Bessie Jackson, merchant

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Washington County Oral History Project

Archive number: OH 79.01.12. 1 cassette. Transcripts: verbatim, final (19 pp.). Data sheet. Index.

Interviewed by Daisy M. Greene in February 6, 1977

Subjects: civil rights movement in Washington County; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Greenville, Miss; race relations; Washington County

Brooks, Lela, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; activist in Sunflower County Movement

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.65. 1 cassette (45 min.). No transcript. Tape cannot be reproduced.

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 8, 1968

Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Sunflower County; voter registration

Brooks, Owen, Mississippi director, Delta Ministry

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.66. 2 transcripts (51 pp. and 60 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on September 24, 1968

Subjects: Delta Ministry; Delta Ministry-relationship to the National Council of Churches; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Council of Churches; role of organized labor in the civil rights movement

2. Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (3 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on August 18, 1978

Subjects: black Catholic Church; Delta Ministry; Greenville, Miss.

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Brooks, Owen, Frank Hudson, Edna Moneton, and Thelma Barnes

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 89.12. 1 hr. 30 min. Sound quality varies. Transcript.

Interviewed by Lavaree Jones and J.F. Jones on April 28, 1989

Subjects: anti-poverty programs; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Delta Ministry

Brown, Bob

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 4.10. 1 hr. 20 min.

Interviewed by Barbara Smith on December 3, 1976

Subjects: race relations

Brown, Charlotte, principal, Canton Academy

Madison County-Canton Public Library: Madison County Oral History Collection

Archive number: 041. 2 cassettes. Transcript (39 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on May 24, 1982

Subjects: private academies; school integration

Brown, Ed

Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (2 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on July 2, 1979

Subjects: demonstrations; Mississippi movement

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Brown, Lillie D.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 23, 1994

Brown, Ollie Mae

F.I.S. Library Project

Video cassette.

Interviewed by Jan Hillegas in 1995

Subjects: Benjamin Brown; Jackson, Miss.; violence

Brown, Otis Jr., chairman, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and head, Sunflower Improvement Association and Community Center

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.70

2. Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 9004. Cassette (2 sides). Transcript.

Brown, R. Jess, civil rights attorney

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Transcripts (21 pp. and 22 pp.).

Interviewed by James M. Mosby Jr. on September 2, 1970

Subjects: civil rights cases; civil rights lawyers; Mack Charles Parker; Mack Charles Parker-problems with jury selection; racial violence

2. Jackson State University: A Neighborhood Discovery: Farish Street District

Archive number: OH 78.18. Transcript (12 pp.).

Interviewed by Catherine McMichael on June 23, 1978

Subjects: Jackson, Miss.; Jackson State University; James Meredith; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; voter registration

3. Jackson State University: A Neighborhood Discovery: Farish Street District

Archive number: OH 81.56. Transcript (9 pp.).

Interviewed by Cheryl Payne and Ernest Luckett on September 29, 1981

Subjects: Jackson, Miss.; James Meredith; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; voter registration

4. University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 20. Transcript (45 pp.).

Interviewed by George Burson on April 2, 1972

Subjects: Claiborne County; Clyde Kennard; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; equal pay for teachers; exclusion of blacks from jury duty; Freedom Summer; Gladys Noel Bates v. Jackson School Board; Ku Klux Klan; Medgar Evers; NAACP; Robert Moses; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Warren County

Brown, Sam W. Jr., attorney

Columbia University: Allard K. Lowenstein Project/University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Allard K. Lowenstein Archives

Cassette. Transcript (38 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on May 29, 1990

Subjects: Allard Lowenstein; Allard Lowenstein-split with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Freedom Summer; Freedom Summer recruitment; National Student Association

Brown, Willie and Morgan Brown Sr.

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

1 cassette. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on March 6, 1996

Bruce, Walter

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (33 pp.)

Interviewed by Harriet Tanzman on October 9, 1999.

Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mary Lee Hightower lawsuit; school integration; protection against racial violence; Head Start; boycott; Robert Clark; Durant school board

Brunini, Joseph, Catholic bishop

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

3 cassettes. One cassette may be a duplicate. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers on August 24, 1995

Bryant, C. C., resident of McComb, Pike County

Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

2 cassettes.

Interviewed by David Bickham on September 16, 1994

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 717. 1 cassette. Transcript (12 pp.)

Interviewed by Jimmy Dykes on November 11, 1995.

Subjects: Robert Moses; bombing of Bryant's barber shop; Burgland High School students' sit-in; Great Depression; Louis Farrakhan; McComb

Subjects: Amzie Moore; Brenda Travis; Brown v. Board of Education; Charles Evers; church burnings; civil rights lawyers; Democratic National Convention (1968); Ernst Borinski; freedom of choice; harassment; Head Start; integration of public accommodations; integration of the Democratic party; intimidation; Jack Young; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; NAACP Youth Branch; racial violence; Reuben V. Anderson; Reverend Taylor; Robert Moses; school integration; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter registration; W.A. Bender

Buckley, Horace, state legislator

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 354. 1 cassette. Transcript (25 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael Garvey on May 11, 1977

Subjects: Amzie Moore; Congress of Racial Equality; James Meredith; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Valley State University; NAACP; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Truett Smith

Buffington, John, chairman, Clay County Community Development Organization; member, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

1. Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.76. Transcript (66 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 12, 1968

Subjects: Black Muslims; Democratic National Convention (1968); Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-expulsion of whites

2. Mary Holmes College Oral History Project: Sharecropper Papers

Archive number: OH ta/ts 83-59 v.3. Reel-to-reel tape. Transcript (7 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Bell on April 24, 1970

Subjects: bombings; Clay County; Johnny Timms; retaliation for participating in the civil rights movement

3. Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive numbers: 0162 and 0165. 2 cassettes (3 sides). Transcript.

4. Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (3 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on August 16 and 17, 1978

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Subjects: Columbus, Miss.; West Point, Miss.; West Point Movement

Buffington, John and Miss Downty

Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (1 hr.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on July 13, 1977

Subjects: Columbus, Miss.; Freedom Summer training in Oxford, Ohio; Roberta Galloway; West Point, Miss.; West Point Movement

This interview is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bunton, Charles

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on August 5, 1996

Burger, N. R., educator and reformer

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 356. Transcript (65 pp.).

Interviewed by R. Wayne Pyle on May 11, 1982

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Alexander v. Holmes County; Black and Tan Party; Black Baptist Association; Black Medical Association; boycott of Hattiesburg's white merchants; Brown v. Board of Education; Charles Evers; economic boycotts; Forrest County; freedom of choice; Hattiesburg, Miss.; Hattiesburg public schools; Holmes County; Iva Sandifer; Jimmy C. Fairley; James Meredith; Mississippi Teachers Association; NAACP; Percy Greene; Perry Howard; Ross R. Barnett; Ruby Magee; school integration; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; Vernon Dahmer; voter registration; White Citizens' Council

Burnett, Alberta, activist

Mary Holmes College Oral History Project: Sharecropper Papers

Archive number: OH ta/ts 83-62 v.3. Reel-to-reel tape. Transcript (11 pp.).

Interviewed by Alvin Thomas on July 29, 1971

Subjects: anti-poverty programs; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Greenwood, Miss.; integration; Mississippi Action Program; retaliation for participating in the civil rights movement

Burns, Emmett, regional director, NAACP

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 81.02. 40 min. Transcript.

Interviewed by Alferdteen Harrison on February 10, 1980

Subjects: Jackson, Miss.; race relations

Burton, Otha Jr.

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (15 pp.)

Interviewed by Don Williams on July 9, 1999.

Subjects: Martin Luther King; Reverend Eddie McBride; Vicksburg boycott of 1971; Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal; African-American solidarity

Butler, Albert

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on February 16, 1994

Subjects: Alcorn State University; Alcorn State University-state trooper intervention; Alexander Collins; Black Hats; boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; Deacons for Defense and Justice; Dusty Jackson shooting; economic boycotts; integration of public accommodation; James Hudson; J.D. Boyd; Martin Luther King Jr.; Matt Ross; Nathan Jones; racial violence; Rudy Shields; shootings

Butler, Robert

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. No transcript, only interviewer's notes.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on February 10, 1992

Subjects: Alcorn State University-state trooper intervention; boycott of Claiborne County's white merchants; Claiborne County; Dan McCay; Deacons for Defense and Justice; Dusty Jackson shooting; economic boycotts; Emerson Davis; integration of public accommodations; Medgar Evers; NAACP; Rudy Shields; shootings

Butts, William A., president, Kentucky State University

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 403. 2 cassettes. Transcript (46 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on March 3 and March 19, 1976

Subjects: civil rights lawyers; destructive effects of desegregation; integration; R. Jess Brown

Buxton, Warner, Negro, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party summer volunteer, Quitman, Mississippi

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 0357. Cassette (2 sides). Transcript.

Byrne, Henry Anthony Jr., mayor, Natchez, Mississippi

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 420. Transcript (53 pp.).

Interviewed by R. Wayne Pyle on September 17, 1982

Subjects: Americans for the Preservation of the White Race; Ben Callon; bombings; boycott of Natchez's white merchants; Brent Foreman; Charles Evers; Concerned Citizens for Education; economic boycotts; Eddie McDaniel; George West Jr.; John Nosser; Ku Klux Klan; L.C. Murray; Medgar Evers; NAACP; Natchez, Miss.; Randall Ferguson; Robert Mackell; Roy Wilkins; Wallace Jackson; White Citizens' Council; U.S. Civil Service Commission

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