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"Mississippi Voices"
Radio Series

 

Oral History
 

Historian:
Tom Ward

Engineer:
Kevin Farrell
Narrator:
Chuck Bolton

Mississippi Voices: A Trip Through the Twentieth-Century" is a twenty-six part radio series that showcases Mississippians pondering a century of changes. The series aired on Public Radio of Mississippi from November 1998 to May 1999. In March 1999, the program received an Award of Merit from the Mississippi Historical Society. Episodes in the series are listed below. The series can be purchased on two compact discs for $18.

Steamboats
Early Entertainment
Health Care
Doctors
Timber Industry
WWI
Flu Pandemic
Prohibition
Theodore Bilbo
Flood of 1927
Seafood Industry  
Great Depression
CCC
WPA
Hoboes
Bootleggers  
Cotton Industry
WWII
Sharecropping
Freedom Summer
Voter Registration
Freedom Schools
Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Hurricane Camille
Jackson State Shooting
NASA in Mississippi

 


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