1. Social Action Collections
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The Social Action Collections document major sociopolitical
issues and movements in the United States. The Society's holdings
are the largest such collection in the county. One of the
major areas of emphasis is the civil rights movement. It houses
the papers of organizations such as Congress of Racial Equality
and Council of Federated Organizations and of such activists
as Fannie Lou Hamer, Ella Baker, and Amzie Moore, as well
as a collection of civil rights oral history interviews with
many of the prominent leaders of the movement. The entire
collection catalog is available online at the Society's Web
site and is searchable via ArCat, the Archives Computer Catalog.
It includes more than 17,000 entries describing the manuscript
collections, both processed and unprocessed, as well as state,
local, and government records held at the archives. Information
is updated about every six months. Below are listed four of
the society's oral history listings that pertain to the Mississippi
civil rights movement. The Anne Romaine Interviews are also
held by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History
and the Southern Regional Council.
Ann Romaine
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