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Film, Video Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

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Title

  • Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

Summary

  • James and Carolyn Miller discuss their experience of living in Port Gibson, Mississippi during the Port Gibson Movement. They specifically reference the downtown merchant boycotts and how race and class tensions impacted the local community. They discuss their persistence in building interracial coalitions and emphasize the strength of local community building, political accountability and leadership for the sustainability of Port Gibson.

Names

  • Miller, Carolyn, 1953- interviewee
  • Miller, James E., 1949- interviewee
  • Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
  • Bishop, John Melville, videographer
  • Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)

Created / Published

  • 2015.

Headings

  • -  Miller, Carolyn,--1953---Interviews
  • -  Miller, James E.,--1949---Interviews
  • -  Evers, Charles,--1922
  • -  Shields, Rudy,--1931-1987
  • -  Walker, George Henry,--1933-2015
  • -  Alcorn State University--History
  • -  Deacons for Defense and Justice
  • -  National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
  • -  Boycotts--Mississippi--Port Gibson
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Voter registration--Mississippi
  • -  Port Gibson (Miss.)--Race relations--History

Genre

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

Notes

  • -  Recorded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on December 4, 2015.
  • -  Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0119), 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.
  • -  James and Carolyn Miller both grew up in Port Gibson, Mississippi, where they met in the youth group of the NAACP, where they participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. The Millers created the downtown improvement initiative, Cultural Crossroads, as a platform to urge the need for local support of black businesses.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 9 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:20:23) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0119

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

  • 2016655410

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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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Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Miller, Carolyn, Interviewee, James E Miller, Emilye Crosby, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655410/.

APA citation style:

Miller, C., Miller, J. E., Crosby, E., Bishop, J. M. & Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655410/.

MLA citation style:

Miller, Carolyn, Interviewee, et al. Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655410/>.