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Film, Video Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 02

Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 02

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Title

  • Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 02

Summary

  • Eddie Holloway discusses growing up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as well as his involvement in Freedom Schools and other civil rights causes. He remembers his experiences as a child in a segregated society and school system, attending University of Southern Mississippi during its transition from a segregated to an integrated school, and his observations of the current educational environment as Dean of Students at USM.

Names

  • Holloway, Eddie A., 1952- interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Headings

  • -  Holloway, Eddie A.,--1952---Interviews
  • -  Burger, N. R.,--1909-1984
  • -  Connor, Peggy Jean
  • -  Kennard, Clyde,--1927-1963
  • -  Magee, Clarence
  • -  Mississippi Freedom Schools
  • -  University of Southern Mississippi--History
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  African Americans--Segregation
  • -  African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  School integration--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
  • -  Segregation in education--Mississippi
  • -  Hattiesburg (Miss.)--Race relations

Genre

  • Personal narratives
  • Filmed interviews
  • Interviews
  • Oral histories
  • Video recordings

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on December 2, 2015.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0115), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
  • -  Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
  • -  The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
  • -  Eddie Holloway was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 1952. While he grew up in Hattiesburg, he also spent summers with family in Bessemer, Alabama. He enrolled at the University of Southern Mississippi in 1970. After graduating, he was employed at William Carey University and also worked in alcohol and drug treatment facilities. He eventually returned to work at USM for 40 years before he retired. In that time, he was the first African American to serve as Dean of Students, Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 9 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:13:09) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0115

Repository

  • Library of Congress Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, 101 Independence Ave. S.E., Washington, DC USA 20540 to 4610 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.home

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016655406

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  • Duplication of collection materials may be governed by copyright and other restrictions.

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  • video

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Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Holloway, Eddie A., Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655406/.

APA citation style:

Holloway, E. A., Crosby, E., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655406/.

MLA citation style:

Holloway, Eddie A., Interviewee, et al. Eddie Holloway oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655406/>.