Project South
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In the summer of 1965 eight Stanford University students
visited fifty civil rights projects in six Southern U.S. states
and taped 330 hours (including 200 hours of personal interviews)
with leaders of such civil rights organizations as Congress
of Racial Equality, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party,
NAACP, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as well as with leaders
of independent groups, local activists, the Ku Klux Klan,
and the Clay County, Mississippi, sheriff's department. The
project was sponsored by KZSU radio and the Institute of History
with the intention of producing broadcast material. The principal
interviwers were Mary Kay Becker, Mark Dalrymple, Roger Dankert,
Richard Gillam, James McRae, Penny Niland, Jon Roise, and
Julie Wells. They visited Batesville, Beasley, Belzoni, Biloxi,
Canton, Clarksdale, Cleveland, Greenville, Greenwood, Hattiesburg,
Holly Springs, Indianola, Jackson, Laurel, McComb, Mileston,
Mount Beulah, Natchez, Pheba, Philadelphia, Quitman, Ruleville,
Shaw, Vicksburg, West Point, and Whites, Mississippi. The
transcripts are available on microfiche (archive number SC
066). The collection is also held by Pennsylvania State University
and the Library of Congress. Stanford has housed the original
tapes in the Library of Recorded Sound and transcripts in
Special Collections. A guide to the collection is 20 pages
long. Stanford will mail out copies for 25 cents per page
plus $2 postage and handling. Seventy of the collection's
interviews pertain to the movement in Mississippi and are
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