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Film, Video Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

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Title

  • Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04

Summary

  • Patricia and David Crosby discuss the founding and subsequent work of the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, a cultural arts organization in Port Gibson. The organization was a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and it did important activist work in generating arts and cultural activities and documenting and interpreting local movement history. Worth Long, James and Carolyn Miller, who were involved in the organization also participate in the interview.

Names

  • Crosby, David L., 1941- interviewee
  • Crosby, Patricia A., interviewee
  • Long, Worth W., interviewee
  • 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

  • -  Crosby, David L.,--1941---Interviews
  • -  Crosby, Patricia A.--Interviews
  • -  Long, Worth W.--Interviews
  • -  Miller, Carolyn,--1953---Interviews
  • -  Miller, James E.,--1949---Interviews
  • -  Freeman, Roland L.,--1936
  • -  Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
  • -  Smithsonian Folklife Festival
  • -  African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  Arts and children--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
  • -  Civil rights movements--Mississippi
  • -  Civil rights movements--United States
  • -  Quiltmakers--Mississippi
  • -  Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations
  • -  Claiborne County (Miss.)--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: 0120), 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.).
  • -  David L. Crosby is a civil rights activist. He co-founded Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1976.
  • -  Patricia A. Crosby is a civil rights activist. She co-founded Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1976.
  • -  Worth W. Long was born in 1936 in Durham, North Carolina. He became involved with organizing events in the civil rights movement as early as 1956, continuing through the 1960s, including participation in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He joined the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads Board in 1980.
  • -  Carolyn Miller was born in Alcorn, Mississippi in 1953 and grew up in Hermanville and Port Gibson, Mississippi. She was involved in the youth chapter of the NAACP, where she met her husband, James Miller, and she participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. She taught at A. W. Watson elementary school, was involved in Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, and was a library board member.
  • -  James E. Miller was born in 1949 and grew up in Port Gibson, Mississippi, where he met his wife, Carolyn Miller, in the youth group of the NAACP and participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. He was involved with Mississippi Cultural Crossroads and worked as County Administrator in Claiborne County, Mississippi.
  • -  Cultural Crossroads was founded by David L. and Patricia A. Crosby in the late 1970s with a $2500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Their mission is to promote the educational, cultural, and economic development of the Port Gibson and Claiborne County community by providing and supporting programs in the arts and humanities which will develop talents, provide outlets for personal expression, and create opportunities for persons of diverse cultural backgrounds to celebrate their heritages and gain respect for other cultures.
  • -  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.
  • -  In English.
  • -  Finding aid https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005

Medium

  • 8 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (03:19:54) : digital, sound, color.
  • transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files.

Source Collection

  • Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0120

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

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2016655411

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Chicago citation style:

Crosby, David L., Interviewee, Patricia A Crosby, Worth W Long, Carolyn Miller, James E Miller, Emilye Crosby, John Melville Bishop, and U.S Civil Rights History Project. Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655411/.

APA citation style:

Crosby, D. L., Crosby, P. A., Long, W. W., Miller, C., Miller, J. E., Crosby, E. [...] Civil Rights History Project, U. S. (2015) Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2016655411/.

MLA citation style:

Crosby, David L., Interviewee, et al. Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi. 2015. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2016655411/>.