Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography - University of Southern Mississippi

Mailing Address:	Box 5175 Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5175
Contact person/title:	Charles Bolton, director or Curtis Austin, co-director
Telephone:	601-266-4574
Fax number:	601-266-6217
E-mail:	Charles.Bolton@usm.edu or Curtis.Austin@usm.edu
Web site:	Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage Web site: http://www.usm.edu/oralhistory
	Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography Web site: rhttp://www.usm.edu/crdp/html/bibliography.shtml
Hours:	Center: Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. Closed for University holidays. Mississippiana Reading Room: Mon.-Thurs. 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.; Fri. 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.; Sat. 10:00 a.m.-2 p.m. Closed for University holidays.
Services/Restrictions:	All tapes and transcripts are archived at the McCain Library and Archives on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi. Hardbound, edited manuscripts of the oral histories, available for most interviews, may be read in the library's Mississippiana reading room. These cannot be checked out or loaned. Photocopy services are available. Researchers may bring in paper, pencil, and personal computers. No pens are allowed. All personal belongings must be left in lockers outside the reading room. Original transcripts and duplicate tapes are available in the University archives, located in the same building. Researchers may listen to any processed and unrestricted tapes. Tapes, however, may not be quoted, paraphrased, cited, or used in any way for publication. Most transcripts have been approved by the interviewees, who were allowed to make minor changes. All transcripts are open unless otherwise noted and may be quoted, paraphrased, and cited. Copies of unrestricted tapes and transcripts can be purchased by contacting the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage by phone, letter, or e-mail. The staff at the Center are willing to provide limited research assistance. A complete guide to the collection, including subject topics for all of the nearly 800 archived interviews, is available on the Web site.

The 118 interviews in this collection were recorded between 1971 and 1997. This collection is not the result of a specific, designed project; thus, the interviews range over a wide variety of topics and have many interviewers. Many of the interviewers were graduate students or other researchers working on dissertations and books. Those interviews are sometimes, but not always, focused on narrow topics. Almost all of the interviews have hardbound, edited transcripts. The people interviewed were often allowed to see the interviews and make minor changes before binding the final version.

The original tapes and transcripts are held at Tougaloo College Archives. Copies of the interviews are at The University of Southern Mississippi.

Canton, Jackson, and Gulf Coast interviews: the interviewers are Stephanie Scull Millet and Harriet Tanzman: