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Mississippi Humanities Council
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Tougaloo College
L. Zenobia Coleman
Library
| Mailing
Address: |
500 West County Line Road
Jackson, MS 39174-9989 |
| Contact
person/title: |
Clarence Hunter, senior
archivist |
| Telephone: |
601-977-7710 |
| Fax
number: |
601-977-7714 |
| E-mail: |
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| Web
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| Hours: |
Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:00
p.m. Closed major holidays. |
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The Tougaloo College Archives
specializes in collecting material relating to the
civil rights movement in Mississippi. In addition
to its oral history and civil rights recordings collection
(speeches, town meetings, church services, etc.),
the archive has more than 3,000 linear feet of manuscript
material about the movement. Researchers must obtain
permission to use the archives from the senior archivist
and are requested to submit a short written prospectus
of their research topic. They may also request finding
aids and catalogs in advance. Staff will copy all
documents and tapes within the limits proscribed by
material donors. Normally all materials must be used
in the library's reading room. Loans of certain materials
may be made through a written request to the senior
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Collections/Interviews:
1. Tougaloo College Oral
History Collection
This collection contains a series of interviews done by archival
and library staff members with people involved in the movement
from 1944 to 1974. The tapes listed below focus exclusively
on civil rights events and form a part of a larger collection
of oral histories of people involved in the history of Tougaloo.
2. Thomas C. Dent Collection
The majority of these 26 interviews were conducted by Thomas
Dent. The collection consists of 47 cassettes and some 100
hours of conversation taped between 1969 and 1984. This collection
is held jointly with the Amistad Center, located on the campus
of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. An inventory
of the interviews serves as the primary finding aid. The interviews
in this collection are listed below.
3. Delta Oral History Project
This is an ongoing joint project of Dickinson and Tougaloo
Colleges under a grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities. Approximately 400 tapes have been recorded. The
collection is closed until the project has been completed.
The goal is to record 2,000 hours of tape. The interviewees
are primarily from Cleveland, Greenville, Mound Bayou, and
Canton. The principal interviewers are Owen Brooks, Kim Lacy
Rogers, and Jerry Ward. The interviews are high quality, but
the transcripts are unedited and sometimes have errors in
spelling place names or personal names. Interviews conducted
to date are listed below.
4. Civil Rights Documentation
Project
This is an ongoing joint project of Tougaloo College and
The University of Southern Mississippi under a grant from
the Mississippi Humanities Council, the National Endowment
for the Humanities, and the Mississippi Department of Archives
and History. The interviews are with people involved in the
civil rights movement, primarily in Mississippi. The interviewers
are Don Williams, Worth Long, Harriet Tanzman, and Stephanie
Scull Millet. The people interviewed were allowed to see the
interviews and make minor changes before binding the final
version. The interviews have hardbound, edited transcripts.
Interviews completed are listed below.
Meridian interviews: the interviewer
is DonWilliams:
Vicksburg interviews: the interviewer
is Don Williams:
Holmes County interviews: the interviewer
is Harriet Tanzman:
Grenada interviews: the interviewer
is Worth Long:
Canton, Jackson, and Gulf Coast interviewers:
the interviewers are Stephanie Scull Millet and Harriet Tanzman:
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