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Film, Video Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03

Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03

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Title

  • Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03

Summary

  • Leesco Guster remembers experiencing segregation growing up and working in Port Gibson, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois. She recalls her work as an activist in Port Gibson, where she canvassed for voting rights, boycotted segregated businesses, and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She also discusses churches' role in the Civil Rights Movement and her participation in the trial NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.

Names

  • Guster, Leesco, interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Headings

  • -  Guster, Leesco--Interviews
  • -  Evers, Charles,--1922
  • -  Shields, Rudy,--1931-1987
  • -  Wells, Thelma Crowder,--1908
  • -  Claiborne Hardware Co.--Trials, litigation, etc
  • -  Deacons for Defense and Justice
  • -  Head Start Program (U.S.)
  • -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • -  African Americans--Segregation
  • -  African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
  • -  African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Claiborne County
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
  • -  Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity
  • -  Voter registration--Mississippi
  • -  Port Gibson (Miss.)--Race relations--History
  • -  Vicksburg (Miss.)--Race relations--History

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on December 3, 2015.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0118), 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.
  • -  Leesco Guster was born in 1936 in Port Gibson, Mississippi. After growing up in various places in Mississippi, she briefly moved to Chicago before returning to Mississippi during the 1960s. She was heavily involved in voter registration is a lifetime member of the NAACP. She has operated a child day care center for over 30 years and continues to be active in her church community.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 7 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:15:13) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0118

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

  • 2016655409

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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:

Guster, Leesco, Interviewee, Emilye Crosby, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655409/.

APA citation style:

Guster, L., Crosby, E., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655409/.

MLA citation style:

Guster, Leesco, Interviewee, et al. Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655409/>.