The Katrina Collection

The following is a sampling of the Katrina Collection currently housed in the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage and currently featured on the "Surviving Katrina: Lost and Found in Mississippi" CD.

Heroism & Survival
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Mayor Tommy Longo Listen here Read here View [1] [2]
Tung Nguyen Listen here Read here View [1] [2]
Rev. Lee Adams Jr. Listen here Read here View here
Barry Jones Listen here Read here View here
Ricky Mathews Listen here Read here View here
An Altered Landscape
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Rep. Gene Taylor Listen here Read here View [1] [2]
Lori K. Gordon Listen here Read here View [1] [2] [3]
Paula Hughes Listen here Read here View here
Response, Recovery & Resilient Spirit
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Councilman Bill Stallworth Listen here Read here View here
Tish Williams Listen here Read here View here
Kurt Brautigam Listen here Read here View here
Claire Boggs Morrison Listen here Read here View [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
Obstacles and Issues
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Rep. Gene Taylor Listen here Read here View here
Reilly Morse Listen here Read here View here
George Schloegel Listen here Read here View here
Babs Faulk Listen here Read here View here
Coping
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John Mason Listen here Read here View here
Bill Stallworth Listen here Read here View here
Stephanie Bynum Listen here Read here View here
Paula Hughes Listen here Read here View here
Lessons Learned / Reflections
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Rep. Diane Peranich Listen here Read here View here
Charles Gray Listen here Read here View [1] [2] [3]
Wendy Frost Listen here Read here View here
Mary Etta Moody Listen here Read here View here
Tish Williams Listen here Read here View here

Mississippi Oral History Project

The Mississippi Oral History Project (MOHP) is a statewide initiative to record Mississippians talking about their experiences, from daily life to extraordinary events, with family, work, politics, churches, community. Over the past ten years the Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded over half a 100 Men Hallmillion dollars in grants to collect over 3500 of these histories. Click here to read more.

MOHP Transcripts Highlights

<<< Participants reminisce about youthful good times spent dancing to live music at the 100 Men Hall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, during an oral history collecting initiative conducted by USM history professor Doug Bristol and his students.

The Mississippi Oral History Project is funded by the Mississippi State Legislature through the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the Mississippi Humanities Council.

For information about the MHC-sponsored Smithsonian traveling exhibit Journey Stories, coming soon to Mississippi, please visit the following Web sites:

http://www.museumonmainstreet.org/journeystories/index.htm

http://www.mshumanities.org/pages/betwfence.asp

Major MOHP Projects

  • Hurricane Katrina
    Over 400 interviews with storm victims, first responders, relief workers, political leaders, and healthcare professionals.

  • Audubon Society's Strawberry Plains Preserve
    Oral histories of folk healing and traditional plant use.

  • Veterans
    Ongoing interviews with veterans from World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the First Gulf War, and the Global War on Terror.

  • McComb Railroad History
    Interviews with railroad workers from the Illinois Central shops in McComb, Mississippi.

  • Civil Rights Documentation Project
    USM Libraries cooperated with the USM Center for Oral History to offer more than 60 oral history transcripts on the civil rights movement, such as those by civil rights leaders Charles Cobb, Charles Evers, Aaron Henry, and Hollis Watkins. This collection also includes oral histories of race-baiting governor Ross Barnett, national White Citizens Council leader William J. Simmons, and State Sovereignty head Erle Johnston. Audio excerpts were added to several of these transcripts. The project was expanded in 2001 by the addition of twenty-two letters from the Joseph and Nancy Ellin Freedom Summer Collection and four diaries of Freedom School teachers in 1964.

Ongoing Projects Archived in the McCain Library

The following list is a representative sample of Mississippi interview collections available in transcript form and on audio tape in the McCain Library. Click here to see a more detailed, alphabetized index of USM's Mississippi oral history collections. Click here to see project summaries from 2003-2008.

  • Agriculture
  • Arts and literature
  • Theodore Bilbo
  • Business and industry
  • Hurricane Camille
  • Civil rights movement
  • Clark County history
  • Courts and law rulings
  • Education
  • Ethnic groups
  • Mississippi River Flood of 1927
  • Gay and lesbian life
  • Turn-of-the-century Mississippi
  • Gulf Coast history
  • Hattiesburg history
  • Paul B. Johnson Jr.
  • Journalism and journalists
  • Labor
  • Local government
  • Medicine and health
  • Pearl River Flood of 1979
  • Piney Woods Regional Folk Survey (1998-1999)
  • Prisoners of war
  • Religion
  • Republican Party
  • Sports
  • State government
  • Stennis Space Center
  • World War II
  • University of Southern Mississippi

 

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