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Mississippi Humanities Council
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Southern Regional Council
| Mailing
Address: |
133 Carnegie Way, Suite
900
Atlanta, GA 30303 |
| Contact
person/title: |
David Dreger, archivist
for Will the Circle Be Unbroken? |
| Telephone: |
404-522-8764 |
| Fax
number: |
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| E-mail: |
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| Web
site: |
http://unbrokencircle.org |
| Hours: |
Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-4:30
p.m. |
| Services/Restrictions: |
The Southern Regional
Council is a 77-year-old, Atlanta-based civil rights
organizations that works to promote racial justice,
protect democratic rights, and broaden civic participation
in the South. Access to the Council's collection is
restricted. Researchers must call in advance to make
arrangements to use the collection, which is located
in the Council's business offices. |
Collections/Interviews:
1. Will the Circle Be Unbroken?
Number of interviews: N/A
Number of transcripts: N/A
Number of tapes: N/A
Year(s) interviews were conducted: 1981-1997
Year(s) covered in the interviews: 1940-1970
Principal interviewer(s): George King and Worth Long
Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is a thirteen-hour radio
series that documents the civil rights movement in five southern
cities between 1940 and 1970. The communities are Columbia,
South Carolina; Montgomery, Alabama; Little Rock, Arkansas;
Jackson, Mississippi; and Atlanta, Georgia. The series features
comments from more than 250 participants, interwoven with
music of the time. With funding from the National endowment
for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting,
the Ford Foundation, and Public Radio International, George
King, producer and project director, and Worth Long, senior
associate producer, conducted more than 250 interviews of
key participants in the events. The Council has cassettes
of all of the interviews conducted by George King and Worth
Long. Most of the tapes are in good to excellent condition.
Edited transcripts are also available for the King and Worth
interviews. Most of the transcripts are in excellent condition.
Most of the transcripts for interviews obtained from other
sources are edited. Since they are photocopies, some of them
are rather light. For purposes of this bibliography, only
those interviews pertaining to Jackson, Mississippi, are listed
below:
2. Other interviews
In addition, more than 1,000 oral histories, transcripts,
and archival recordings of interviews with participants in
the civil rights movement were acquired from the Lyndon Baines
Johnson Library, the Project South Oral History Program, the
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the Oral
History Program of the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill. Those pertaining to Missississippi are listed below:
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