Mississippi Humanities Council
Mississippi Department of Archives and History

Interview List C

Cableton, Robert, resident of Sunflower County

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

4 cassettes. Transcript (70 pp.). Two cassettes may be duplicates. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on October 25, 1995

Subjects: black power; Council of Federated Organizations; John Huff; Ku Klux Klan; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; White Citizens' Council

Cade, Cathy

Columbia University: Student Movements of the 1960s Collection

2 cassettes. Unprocessed. Can be seen in Columbia's Oral History Research Office.

Interviewed by Ronald J. Grele on January 5, 1985

Subjects: Allard Lowenstein; Canton, Miss.; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; Democratic National Convention (1964); Democratic Party; Dottie Zellner; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Freedom Summer; Howard Romaine; Jackson, Miss.; Matteo Suarez; McComb, Miss.; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Robert Zellner; Southern Student Organizing Committee; Students for Integration; Sue Thrasher

Cameron, John E., Baptist minister

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

2 cassettes. Transcript (12 pp.)

Interviewed by Don Williams on January 26, 1999.

Subjects: AIDS education; American Baptist Theological Seminary; churches pastored; Meridian; Hattiesburg Ministers' Project; HIV education; interracial ministry; Jesse Jackson; Martin Luther King; Presbyterian Committee of Religion and Race; Weidmann's Restaurant and public accommodation; voter registration; white assistant ministers

Campbell, Annyce

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes (180 min.). Transcript (84 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on March 27, 1996

Subjects: Bolivar County; Bolivar County-civil rights; Catholic Mission

Campbell, Clarice T., professor

1. F.I.S. Library Project

Video cassette.

Interviewed by Jan Hillegas in 1997

Subjects: Civil Rights Chronicle

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

Archive number: OH 83-02. 2 reel-to reel tapes. Transcripts: unedited, edited, final.

Interviewed by William Hanna on September 22, 1981

Subjects: A. Daniel Beittel; Holly Springs, Miss.; John R. Salter; NAACP; North Mississippi Legal Services; Rust College; Southern Conference Educational Fund; Tougaloo College

Campbell, Johnny

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 2.33. 30 min. Tape difficult to understand. Transcript.

Interviewed by Wayne Bishop on October 19, 1975

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

Campbell, Will Davis, preacher, civil rights activist and author

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 157. Transcript (100 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on June 8, 1976

Subjects: Bayard Rustin; Brown v. Board of Education; FBI; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Holmes County; Ku Klux Klan; National Council of Churches; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Camphor, Arthur Lee

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette. Rough transcript; not verbatim.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby and Kenzia Tisdale on June 23, 1992

Subjects: NAACP

Carew, Collin, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee field worker

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.87

Carmichael, Gil, Mississippi politician

1. Mississippi State University: John Stennis Oral History Collection

Transcript. Index. For use only by researchers approved by Mississippi State University.

Subjects: Democratic Party; James Meredith; James O. Eastland; John C. Stennis; Lauderdale County; Republican Party

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

Archive number: A99. Tape. Transcript.

Carmichael, Stokely

1. Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive Number: SR 1363. Transcript of a video interview (47 pp.).

Subjects: Freedom Summer; Greenville, Miss.; Greenwood, Miss.; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Robert Zellner

This video interview was originally conducted by Blacksides for the Eyes on the Prize series.

2. Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive Number: SR 1022. Transcript of a video interview (11 pp.).

Interviewed on November 7, 1988

Subjects: Democratic Party; Democratic national Convention (1964); James O. Eastland; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

This video interview was originally taped by Blacksides for the Eyes on the Prize II series.

3. Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive Number: SR 1035. Transcript of a video interview.

Interviewed on November 7, 1988

Subjects: Amzie Moore: Andrew Young; Anne Devine; Congress of Racial Equality; Democratic National Convention (1964); Floyd McKissick; James Meredith; John Lewis; Martin Luther King Jr.; Medgar Evers; Meredith March; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; National Urban League; Roy Wilkins; Southern Christian Leadership Council; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

This video interview was originally taped by Blacksides for the Eyes on the Prize II series.

4. Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive Number: SR 1036. Transcript of a video interview.

Interviewed on November 7, 1988

Subjects: Courtland Cox; James Meredith; Meredith March; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

This video interview was originally taped by Blacksides for the Eyes on the Prize II series.

5. Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive Number: SR 1037 . Transcript of a video interview.

Interviewed on November 7, 1988

Subjects: black power; Brother Willie Riggs; Canton, Miss.; Cleveland Sellers; Congress of Racial Equality

This video interview was originally taped by Blacksides for the Eyes on the Prize II series.

Carpenter, Mosella

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on June 30, 1992

Carr, Andrew R., planter and businessman

1. Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

Transcript (35 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Owen Brooks on August 27, 1996

Subjects: Catholic Church; Father Malcolm O'Leary

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

Vol. 681. 1 cassette. Transcript (20 pp.).

Interviewed by Homer Hill on March 14, 1994

Subjects: Bolivar County; Brown v. Board of Education; Civil Rights Act (1964); Clarksdale, Miss.; Coahoma County; Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.; Harvey T. Ross; Head Start; Jesse Epps; Mississippi Delta; Orma Smith; Robert Sargent Shriver; Semmes Luckett; Southern Educational Recreation Association; Sunflower County; Washington County; White Citizens' Council

Carr, Michael, Mississippi chancery judge

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 469. 1 cassette tape. Transcript (22 pp.).

Interviewed by Yashuhiro Katagiri on October 28, 1993

Subjects: civil rights movement; Erle Johnston; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

Carr, Oscar, Mississippi political figure

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

Transcripts: draft; final (30 pp.)

Interviewed by Gordon G. Henderson on July 7, 1965

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Civil Rights Act (1964); Clarksdale, Miss.; Coahoma County; Council of Federated Organizations; Delta Ministry; Democratic National Party; Head Start; James Meredith; James O. Eastland; James P. Coleman; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; Public Accommodations Act; racial discrimination; Ross R. Barnett; Roy Wilkins; States' Rights Party; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tunica County; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; University of Mississippi-integration; Voting Rights Act; White Citizens' Council

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

Transcript (35 pp.).

Interview conducted for the Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Project in 1969

Carr, Sam, Negro, leader, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; summer volunteer, Aberdeen, Mississippi

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 0234. Cassette (2 sides). Transcript.

Carter, Betty W., wife of Hodding Carter

1. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Southern Liberalism Oral History Collection

Archive number: A350. Tape.

Interviewed by John Egerton

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

Vol. 150. 2 cassette tapes. Transcript (49 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on August 17, 1977

Subjects: Byron de la Beckwith; civil rights and the 1960s; Delta Star; Democrat Times; Hodding Carter;

Carter, Hodding Jr., editor, Delta Democrat Times

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

Archive number: AC73-13. Transcript (30pp.).

Interviewed by T.H. Baker on November 8, 1968

Subjects: Aaron Henry; black leadership in Mississippi; boycotts; Burke Marshall; Charles Evers; Greenville, Miss.; Hazel Brannon Smith; James Meredith; James P. Coleman; John Doar; Ku Klux Klan; Lexington, Miss.; Matthew Page; McComb, Miss.; Medgar Evers; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; Oliver Emmerich; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; race relations; Robert F. Kennedy; Ross R. Barnett; Tupelo, Miss.; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; U.S. Department of Justice; White Citizens' Council

This interview is also held in the Mississippi Department of Archives and History's Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Collection and Southern Regional Council's Will the Circle Be Unbroken Collection.

Carter, Hodding III, editor, Delta-Democrat Times

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

Archive number: DC28.89. Transcript (35 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on September 23, 1968

Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education; Democratic National Convention (1968); Democratic Party; Freedom Summer; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; White Citizens' Council

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

Transcript (33 pp.)

Interviewed by Gordon G. Henderson on July 19, 1965

Subjects: Civil Rights Act (1964); Council of Federated Organizations; Delta-Democrat Times; Delta Ministry; freedom of choice; Freedom Summer; Greenville, Miss.; Head Start; James Meredith; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Freedom Labor Union; NAACP; National Council of Churches; Larry Walker; Ross R. Barnett; school integration; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; University of Mississippi-integration; Warren McKenna; White Citizens' Council

3. Mississippi State University: Billy Simpson Loyalist Democratic Collection

1 cassette. Transcript rough.

Interviewed by William M. Simpson between 1973 and 1974

Subjects: Loyalist Democrats

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

Archive number: A100. Transcript.

Carter, James Elliot, launderer

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

Archive number: OH 79-01.27. 1 cassette. Transcripts: verbatim, final (30 pp). Index.

Interviewed by Daisy M. Greene on August 3, 1978

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Black and Tan Party; black police officers in Greenville; Fannie Lou Hamer; George Davis; Greenville, Miss.; Hodding Carter III; James Edwards; Joe Bivins; Lilywhite Party; Lizzie Howard; Onett Johnson; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; voter registration; Voting Rights Act

Carter, Mae Bertha

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on September 15, 1995

Carter, Pauline, counselor, Murrah High School

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Murrah High School Oral History Project

Archive number: OHP 243. 1 cassette. Transcript (12 pp.).

Interviewed by Pauline Robertson on March 17, 1978

Subjects: Citizens' Council schools; desegregation; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson Prep; Jesse Howell; Murrah High School; Resume; racial violence; school integration; violence in the schools

Carthan, Eddie, politician

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 478. 2 cassettes. Transcript (42 pp.).

Interviewed by R. Wayne Pyle on March 22, 1979

Subjects: black participation in the electoral process; Charles Evers; John Edgar Hayes; Mississippi Conference of Black Mayors; Tchula, Miss.

Case, Bert, news reporter, WLBT-TV

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Murrah High School Oral History Project

Archive number: OHP 244. 1 cassette. Transcript (3 pp.). Transcript has a number of blanks.

Interviewed by Cordelia Douzenis in March 1978

Subjects: desegregation; freedom of choice; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson public schools; school integration; white student flight

Caston, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert, parents of West Point students

Mississippi Department of Archives and History: Alec C. Valentine Interviews

Archive number: OHP 406.04. Cassette.

Interviewed by Alec C. Valentine on July 20, 1983

Subjects: integration of Mississippi's public schools; school integration

Catchings, Troy

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 659. 1 cassette. Transcript (24 pp.).

Interviewed by Homer Hill in March 15, 1994

Subjects: Bennie Gooden; black power; Clarksdale, Miss.; Coahoma County; Coahoma Legal Aid; Coahoma Opportunities, Inc.; Gus Roessler; Head Start; Mayo Wilson; NAACP; Reuben Smith

Cauthen, Jack, sheriff of Madison County during civil rights marches

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

Archive number: 052. 3 cassettes. Transcript (67 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on June 29, 1982

Subjects: Charlie Smartgrass; Ed Hollander; Jackson, Miss.; James Meredith; Martin Luther King Jr.; Meredith March; resentment of outside agitators; voter registration; W.S. Cain

Chapman, Don, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party summer volunteer, Quitman, Mississippi

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive numbers: 0358 and 0359. Cassette (3 sides). Transcript.

Cheek, Luke

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

Transcript (33pp.).

Interviewed by Lawrence J. Nelson on September 13, 1983

Subjects: Picayune, Miss.; segregation

Chinn, C.O.

Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (1 hr.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on July 3, 1982

Subjects: Canton, Miss.

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

Chinn, C.O. and Robert Chinn

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

1 cassette. Introduction not very good; may be more than one interviewer. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers on January 25, 1995

Chinn, C.S. II

Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (2 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on March 27, 1983

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

Chinn, Mamie McClendon

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

Transcript (75 pp.). Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Jerry Ward on July 7, 1997

Subjects: Canton, Miss.; Head Start; race relations

Chinn, Robert

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

Transcript (12 pp.).

Interviewed by Elyda Garnett on November 11, 1978

Subjects: Congress of Racial Equality; economic boycotts; Freedom March; integration of public accommodations; Ku Klux Klan; voter registration; White Citizens' Council

See also Chinn, C.O. and Robert Chinn

Chiplin, Charles K.

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (15 pp.)

Interviewed by Don Williams on June 25, 1999.

Subjects: desegregation; housing Freedom Summer volunteers; Vicksburg boycott of 1971; bombing of Chip's Grocery and Baptist Academy freedom school; Vicksburg freedom school; Vicksburg Citizens' Appeal; Vicksburg Deacon's Alliance

Cikins, Warren I., legislative director, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; special assistant to Berl Bernhard, Civil Rights Commission

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

Transcript (39 pp.).

Clark, Colia Liddell and Lewis Liddell

Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Archive number: 010. Cassette. Transcript a working copy.

Interviewed by Worth Long on May 23, 1983

Subjects: Cleveland Sellers; Clyde Kennard; Council of Federated Organizations; Dorie Ladner; Fred Mangrum; George Lee; Gus Courts; Hinds County; Jackson Movement; Jackson, Miss.; Joyce Ladner; Liberty, Miss.; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Delta; NAACP; race relations; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo College

See also Interview with ten members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Clark, Dolly

Sunflower County Library Oral History Collection.

1 videotape.

Interviewed by Anice Powell on May 3, 1989

Subjects: Arthur Clark; civil rights lawyers

Clark, Fred Sr.

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 494. 3 cassettes. Transcript (63 pp.).

Interviewed by Leesha Faulkner on June 10, 1994

Subjects: Carsie Hall; civil rights lawyers; Diane Nash; Emmett Till; Fannie Lou Hamer; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Jack Young; Jackson, Miss.; Jackson State University; James Bevel; James Meredith; Jimmy Travis; John F. Kennedy; Ku Klux Klan; lynchings; Martin Luther King Jr.; Medgar Evers; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; NAACP; Percy Greene; Philadelphia, Miss.; R. Jess Brown; Robert F. Kennedy; role of music in the civil rights movement; Sidney Tharp; school integration; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Tougaloo College; University of Mississippi; White Citizens' Council

Clark, Georgia

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (32 pp.)

Interviewed by Harriet Tanzman on October 7, 1999.

Subjects: sharecropping; voter registration; police violence; boycott; involvement in the civil rights movement; arrested for picketing; school integration; Mel Leventhal; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Council of Negro Women; election commissioner for Holmes County

Clark, Leon, janitor

Mary Holmes College Oral History Project: Sharecropper Papers

Archive number: OH ta/ts 83-76 v.4. Reel-to-reel tape. Transcript

(13 pp.).

Interviewed by Willie W. Pulliam on May 7, 1970

Subjects: Canton, Miss.; Ku Klux Klan; racial violence

Clark, Obie

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette. Transcript (22 pp.)

Interviewed by Don Williams on March 13, 1999.

Subjects: Army service in Korea; at-large elections; Committee of Concern; Duncan Gray; gerrymandering of school zones in 1969; integration of Meridian's public swimming pool; Kathy Ainsworth; Klan targets First Union Baptist Church in Meridian; Klan violence against Jackson and Meridian Jews; Meridian; Multi County Community Service Agency; NAACP; picketing; Polly Heidelberg; Porterville High School; Sam Bowers; "scrapping" cotton; Thomas Tarrants; undergraduate and graduate degrees; voter registration; Wayne Roberts; Whisenton High School

Clark, Ramsey, U.S. attorney general, 1967-1969

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

Archive number: AC79-33. Transcript (30 pp.).

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

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

Archive number: AC79-34. Transcript (31 pp.).

Subjects: integration; James Meredith; University of Mississippi-integration; University of Mississippi-James Meredith

Also in Mississippi Department of Archives and History's Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Collection and Southern Regional Council's Will the Circle Be Unbroken Collection

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

Archive number: AC79-35. Transcript (20 pp.).

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

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

Archive number: AC79-36. Transcript (30 pp.).

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

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

Archive number: AC79-37. Transcript (29 pp.).

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

Clark, Robert G., Holmes County; first black elected to the Mississippi legislature since Reconstruction

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

Archive number: DC28.98. Transcript (15 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 11, 1968

Subjects: black participation in the electoral process; Holmes County

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

Archive number: A101. Tape. Transcript.

3. Mississippi State University: John Stennis Oral History Collection

Transcript. Index.

Subjects: Aaron Henry; anti-poverty programs; Child Development Group of Mississippi; Ebenezer, Miss.; Freedom Election; Humphreys County; John C. Stennis; Loyalist Democrats; Saints Junior College; school integration

4. Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (21 pp.)

Interviewed by Harriet Tanzman on February 11, 2000.

Subjects: Jackson State College; teaching in Durant, Conway, and Lexington, Mississippi; Project Second Start; election to the Mississippi House of Representatives; issues of early childhood education and compulsory education in the legislature; racism and bigotry in the Mississippi House; Alexander v. Holmes; Education Reform Act; special legislative session for Education Reform Act of 1982

Clark, Septima

Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Change: Martin Luther King Jr. Oral History Collection

Archive number: 17 (2050). Reel-to-reel tape. Transcript. Transcript not available at time of site visit.

Interviewed by J. Barton on November 9, 1971

Clark, Tom C., associate justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1949-1967

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

Transcript (36 pp.).

Clarke, Alyce Griffin, Mississippi State Representative

Tougaloo College: Oral History Collection

1 cassette tape. Transcript (29 pp.).

Interviewed by Kimberly Cosby on November 13, 1995.

Subjects: Alcorn Agricultural and Mechanical College/Alcorn State University; Belzoni; cotton picking for $3/hundred lbs.; economic reprisals for voter registration; Gus Courts; Head Start; Ida Merriweather; lynching of Reverend George Lee; Mississippi Educators Association; Mississippi Teachers Association; Sears Roebuck Scholarship to college; segregation; Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church; voter registration

Clegg, Hugh H., FBI agent

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 99. Transcript (259 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael Garvey and Orley B. Caudill on October 1, 2, and 23, 1974, and July 1, 1975

Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education; Burke Marshall; Chester Curtis; Clarksdale, Miss.; Clennon King; Jackson State University; James Meredith; James P. Coleman; John Doar; Lafayette County; Orma Smith; Ross R. Barnett; Shine M. Morgan; Sidney C. Mize; University of Mississippi-integration; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; U.S. Department of Justice

Clemson, Barry, Freedom Summer volunteer

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Title: Freedom Summer Interviews

Vol. 626. 1 cassette. Transcript (pp. 41-62).

Interviewed by John Rachal on November 14, 1995

Subjects: Andrew Goodman; Biloxi, Miss.; Chico Neblett; Council of Federated Organizations; Freedom Summer; Greenwood, Miss.; Gulfport, Miss.; Hattiesburg, Miss.; James Chaney; Larry Rubin; Lawrence Guyot; Michael Schwerner; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; role of music in the civil rights movement; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter registration; Wiggins, Miss.

Clower, Jerry, humorist and businessman

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 38. 1 reel-to-reel tape. Transcript (96 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on July 12, 1973.

Subjects: Liberty, Miss.; social change

Cobb, Charles

1. Tougaloo College: Thomas C. Dent Collection

Cassette (2 hrs.).

Interviewed by Thomas C. Dent on February 11, 1983

Subjects: Medgar Evers

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

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

Vol. 668. 2 cassettes. Transcript (40 pp.).

Interviewed by John Rachal on October 21, 1996

Subjects: Allard Lowenstein; allegations of communist influence in the civil rights movement; Amzie Moore; Annie Devine; Bolivar County; Bolivar County NAACP; Charles Evers; Charles Payne; Charles McLaurin; CIA; Cleveland, Miss.; Colia Liddell Clark and Lewis Liddell; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; Curtis Hayes; Deacons for Defense and Justice; Democratic National Convention (1964); Dewey Greene Sr.; Diane Nash; Dorie Ladner; Eldridge W. Steptoe; Emmett Till; Fannie Lou Hamer; FBI; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Freedom Summer; Freedom Vote; Gandhian nonviolence; Greenville, Miss.; Greenwood, Miss.; Hartman Turnbow; Henry Sias; Hodding Carter III; Hollis Watkins; I've Got the Light of Freedom; Ivanhoe Donaldson; Jackson, Miss.; James Meredith; Jesse Harris; John Doar; John F. Kennedy; John Hewlett; John Lewis; Joyce Ladner; Justice Department; Ku Klux Klan; Lanny McNair; Lawrence Guyot; Leflore County; lynchings; Mayor Dorrough (Ruleville); Medgar Evers; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; NAACP; National Lawyers' Guild; Panola County; R. L. Strickland; George Lee; James Bevel; Robert F. Kennedy; Robert Moses; role of music in the civil rights movement; Ross R. Barnett; Roy Wilkins; Ruleville; Sam Block; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Sunflower County; Theron Lynd; University of Mississippi-James Meredith; Victoria Gray; Willie Peacock

Cobb, Charles and Ivanhoe Donaldson

Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

2 cassettes. Transcript (31 pp.).

Interviewed by George King on April 16, 1996

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Amzie Moore; Andrew Goodman; Bolivar County; Clarksdale, Miss.; Congress of Racial Equality; Courtland Cox; Democratic National Convention (1964); Dottie Zellner; Eldridge W. Steptoe; Freedom Summer; Greenville, Miss.; Greenwood, Miss.; Henry Sias; Herbert Lee; Irene Johnson; Issaquena, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James Chaney; James Meredith; Jimmy Travis; Ku Klux Klan; Martin Luther King Jr; Meridian, Miss.; Michael Schwerner; Millsaps College; Neshoba County; Parchman Prison; Rebecca MacDonald; Reggie Robinson; Rolling Fork, Miss.; Ruleville, Miss.; sit-ins; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Sunflower County; Unita Blackwell; Vicksburg, Miss.; Victoria Gray

See also Donaldson, Ivanhoe, Charles Cobb, and Frank Smith

Cochran, Thad

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

Archive number: A103. Tape. Transcript.

Cohen, James, pharmacist

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 705. 3 cassettes. Transcript (54 pp.)

Interviewed by Mike Garvey on February 2, 1976.

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Alcorn State University; Clyde Kennard; Forrest County Biracial Committee; Hattiesburg Association for City Improvement; integration of Petal High School; Medgar Evers; NAACP; Vernon Dahmer; Willowforce University; Xavier University

Cohen, Pat, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee volunteer

Stanford University: Project South Oral History Program

Archive number: 0110. Cassette. Transcript.

Cole, Charlene

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Wanda Lampeers (?) on November 3, 1995

Cole, Ed, activist

1. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 31, 1992

2. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on July 16, 1996

3. Mississippi State University: John Stennis Oral History Collection

Transcript. Index.

Subjects: anti-poverty programs; Charles Evers; Charles Young; Child Development Group of Mississippi; community action programs; Council of Federated Organizations; Democratic Party; Freedom Election; Freedom Summer; James O. Eastland; John C. Stennis; Loyalist Democrats; NAACP Scholarship, Education and Defense Fund

Coleman, James C.

Tougaloo College: Civil Rights Documentation Project

1 cassette tape. Transcript (29 pp.)

Interviewed by Harriet Tanzman on April 12, 2000.

Subjects: Tougaloo College; University of Tennessee, 1965; integrating dormitories at Memphis State University; integrating married student housing at Ole Miss, 1967; the Tougaloo Nine; Hollis Watkins; Social Science Forum; Dr. Charles Sallis of Millsaps; Meredith March; SCLC, SNCC, CORE; Tougaloo President George Owens; Dr. Daniel Beittel; Freedom Summer 1964;
Choctaw Indians

Coleman, James P., governor, Mississippi; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Judicial District

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

Archive number: AC78-83. Transcript (53 pp.).

Interviewed by Joe B. Frantz on April 29, 1973

Subjects: political aspects of civil rights

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

2. University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: Southern Liberalism Oral History Collection

Archive number: A338. Tape.

Interviewed by John Egerton on September 5, 1990

Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education; changes in racial climate; James O. Eastland; John Bell Williams; John C. Stennis; lynchings; Mack Charles Parker; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; Ross R. Barnett; school integration

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

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

Archive number: A102. Tape. Transcript. Microfiche of transcript available.

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

Vol. 203. Transcript (263 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on November 12, 1981, and February 6, 1982

Subjects: Alexander v. Holmes County; Brown v. Board of Education; Clennon King; Joe Patterson; Mack Charles Parker; Martin Luther King Jr.; NAACP; Pearl River County; Ross R. Barnett; T.B. Birdsong; University of Mississippi-integration; White Citizens' Council; William Kunstler

Coleman, Mary, political scientist

Jackson State University: Recollections of the Civil Rights Movement

Archive number: OH 94.05. 35 min.

Interviewed by Patrick Brown on April 24, 1994

Subjects: Brown v. Board of Education; Scott County

College Students, Negro, Rust College, Holly Springs, Mississippi

Millsaps College: Oral History of Mississippi Contemporary Life and Viewpoint

Transcript (35 pp.).

Interviewed by Gordon G. Henderson in July 1965

Subjects: Aaron Henry; Commentary; Council of Federated Organizations; Ebony; Freedom Summer; Head Start; Holly Springs, Miss.; influence of black authors; James Baldwin; James O. Eastland; Jet; John Griffin; Lewis Lomack; Life; Lilywhite Party; Marshall County; Martin Luther King Jr.; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; mock election campaign; NAACP; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; racial discrimination; Richard Wright; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; voter registration; Voting Rights Act

Collier, Clinton, minister and civil rights activist

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

Archive number: OH 94.40. 1 hr. 45 min.

Interviewed by Rosa Martin on May 5, 1994

Subjects: Neshoba County

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

Vol. 353. 4 cassette tapes. Part I: Transcript (71 pp.). Part II: Transcript (36 pp.)

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on July 28, 1981 and Leesha Faulkner on June 25, 1994

Subjects: Aaron Henry; allegations of communist influence in the civil rights movement; Annie Devine; bombings; Brown v. Board of Education; Canton, Miss.; Carthage, Miss.; Charles Evers; church burnings; Clay F. Lee; Council of Federated Organizations; Curtis Hayes; Edwin King; Fannie Lou Hamer; FBI; Florence Mars; Floyd McKissick; Freedom Riders/Freedom Rides; Hazel Brannon Smith; Head Start; Jackson, Miss.; James Forman; James Meredith; John Doar; John Perkins; Justice Department; Kemper County; Ku Klux Klan; Lawrence Guyot; Lawrence T. Rainey; Leake County; Lee County; Let Justice Flow; Medgar Evers; Meridian, Miss.; Michael Schwerner; Mississippi Delta; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Neshoba County; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; racial violence; Robert Beach; Robert Moses; U.S. Department of Justice; Voting Rights Act

Collins, Earl

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes (180 min.). Transcript (48 pp.) Closed until project is completed.

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

Subjects: race relations

Colmer, William M., U.S. congressman, Mississippi

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

Transcript (29 pp.).

Combs, Claudia Tillman

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads: No Easy Journey

Cassette.

Interviewed by Emilye Crosby on January 31, 1992

Conner, Douglas L., Starkville physician

Mississippi State University: Billy Simpson Loyalist Democratic Collection

1 cassette. Transcript rough.

Interviewed by William M. Simpson between 1973 and 1974

Subjects: Loyalist Democrats

Conway, Jack T., deputy director, Office of Equal Opportunity, 1964-1965.

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

Transcript (41 pp.).

Conwell, Daisie

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Tapes do not seem to have anything on them. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on February 27, 1996

Cook, Clearese

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 722. 2 cassette tapes. Transcript (21 pp.)

Interviewed by Kim Adams in November of 1994.

Subjects: Great Depression; World War II; Camp Shelby; Keesler Field; Mississippi Industrial College; discrimination; Clyde Kennard

Cooper, Owen, businessman, Mississippi Chemical Corporation

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 57. 1 cassette tape. Transcript (47 pp.).

Interviewed by Graham Lee Hales Jr. on December 11, 1972

Subjects: civil rights participation; Southern Baptist Convention

Corban, Emma, Fayette resident and educator

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 357. 2 cassette tapes. Transcript (28 pp.).

Interviewed by Charles Bolton on March 7, 1991.

Subjects: merger of Mississippi Education of Association with Mississippi Teachers Association; school desegregation

Corbin, Paul, special assistant to the chairman, Democratic National Committee, 1961-64

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

Transcript (105 pp.). Permission required.
Interview conducted for the Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Project in 1970

Cotton, Douglas M., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee field secretary, 1961-1965

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.110. Transcript (53 pp.).

Interviewed by Robert Wright on August 5, 1968

Subjects: Freedom Summer; impact of outside organizers on civil rights efforts of native black Mississippians; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

Courts, Gus, NAACP activist, Belzoni, Mississippi

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.112. Transcript (38 pp.).

Interviewed by John Britton in February 1968

Subjects: NAACP; retaliation for belonging to the NAACP; voter registration

Cowan, Geoffrey, attorney

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

Archive number: 1571. Cassette. Transcript (30 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on March 15, 1989

Subjects: Barney Frank; Congress of Racial Equality; Dennis Sweeney; Freedom Summer; Lyndon B. Johnson; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Susan Goodwillie

Cowan, Patricia, director, Wednesday in Mississippi (later named Workshops in Mississippi)

Howard University: Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection

Archive number: DC28.113. 2 transcripts (41 pp. and 42 pp.).

Interviewed by John Britton on March 8, 1968

Cox, Courtland

Southern Regional Council: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

1 cassette. Transcript (20 pp.).

Subjects: Andrew Goodman; Cleveland Sellars; Congress of Racial Equality; Council of Federated Organizations; Freedom Summer; Freedom Summer training at Oxford, Ohio; Greenwood, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James Chaney; James Meredith; Leflore County; Martin Luther King Jr.; Meredith March; Michael Schwerner; NAACP; Neshoba County; Nonviolent Action Group; Philadelphia, Miss.; Philadelphia murders; racial violence; Stokely Carmichael; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; voter education; voter registration

Cox, Robert, former superintendent of schools

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

Archive number: 039. 1 cassette. Transcript (20 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on May 21, 1982

Subjects: freedom of choice; school integration; segregation

Crawford, Homer

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

1 cassette. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on February 10, 1996

Crawford, John Jr., Starkville

Mississippi State University: Billy Simpson Loyalist Democratic Collection

1 cassette. Transcript rough.

Interviewed by William M. Simpson between 1973 and 1974

Subjects: Loyalist Democrats

Crawford, O.D., newspaperman

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

Archive number: 002. 2 cassettes. Transcript (46 pp.).

Interviewed by Michael G. Trend on January 29, 1982

Subjects: Canton, Miss.; Jackson, Miss.; James Meredith; Meredith March

Crouse, Melburn

Tougaloo College: Delta Oral History Project

2 cassettes. Closed until project is completed.

Interviewed by Kim Lacy Rogers and Owen Brooks on February 19, 1996

Crump, Brodie, Greenville resident and journalist

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 53. 2 cassette tapes. Transcript (50 pp.). Newspaper columns.

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on February 26, 1974.

Subjects: Greenville, Miss.; Hodding Carter Jr.; Hodding Carter III

Cunningham, William Jefferson, minister, Galloway Memorial United Methodist Church

University of Southern Mississippi: Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

Vol. 242. Transcript (94 pp.).

Interviewed by Orley B. Caudill on August 6, 1981, and June 17, 1982

Subjects: Clay F. Lee; integration of churches; Methodist Church; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission; White Citizens' Council

Curry, Constance, civil rights worker

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

Archive number: 1485. 1 cassette. Transcript (19 pp.). Index. Permission required to cite and quote.

Interviewed by William Chafe on November 3, 1990

Subjects: Allard Lowenstein; American Friends Service Committee; Courtland Cox; Jane Stembridge; Julian Bond; Lawrence Guyot; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; National Lawyers' Guild; National Student Association; Robert Moses; Southern Conference Educational Fund