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Finding Aid for the Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project
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The Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project is open for research. Patrons are encouraged to use the digital
collection, available: https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/freedom_riders

Finding Aid for the Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project


Descriptive Summary

PURL: http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00058/
Title: Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project
Dates: 2001
Collector: University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture; University of Mississippi. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation; University of Mississippi. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education; University of Mississippi. Center for Media & Documentary Projects;
Repository: University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA
Identification: MUM00058
Location: Visual Collections
Language of Material: English
Abstract: The University of Mississippi’s Freedom Riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th
anniversary held in Jackson, MS in the summer of 2001.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Individuals involved in the taping, interviewing, and overall success of the freedom riders 40th anniversary oral history
project include: Prof. David Wharton, Joe York, Amy C. Evans, Tiffany Hamlin, Evan Hatch, Susan Glisson, April Grayson, Mary
Beth Lasseter, Warren Ables, and Mary Hartwell Howorth.

University departments responsible: The Center for the Study of Southern Studies, the William Winter Institute for Racial
Reconciliation, and the University of Mississippi Media & Documentary Productions.

Processing Information

Collection digitized by the University of Mississippi Media & Documentary Productions and processed by Pamela Williamson.

Additions

No further additions are expected to this collection.

Alternative Formats

The Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project is available as a digital collection: https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/freedom_riders


Subject Terms

Freedom Rides, 1961 — Interviews
Civil rights workers — Southern States — Interviews
Civil rights movements — Southern States — Interviews


Formats

streaming video
DVDs
Mini-DV


Biographical Note

Freedom Riders were young civil rights activists who planned to ride interstate buses from Washington, D.C. to New Orleans,
LA in the summer of 1961 to test the United States Court decision Boynton v. Virginia. The decision gave interstate travelers the legal right to disregard local segregation laws regarding interstate transportation
facilities. The first ride left Washington, D.C. on May 4, 1961 and was met with extreme amounts of violence in Alabama, so
much in fact that most of the riders agreed to fly to New Orleans instead of continuing on. This did not stop the rides or
the violence and on May 24th riders boarded buses for Jackson, MS. When they arrived, riders were arrested for using “whites-only”
facilities and imprisoned in Parchman Penitentiary.


User Information

Prefered Citation

Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The
University of Mississippi

Access Restrictions

The Freedom Riders’ 40th Anniversary Oral History Project is open for research. Patrons are encouraged to use the digital
collection, available: https://clio.lib.olemiss.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/freedom_riders

Copyright Restrictions

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making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”,
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.


Related Material

Resources at the University of Mississippi

For more Civil Rights related materials housed at the University of Mississippi Archives & Special Collections, see our Civil Rights & Race Relations subject guide.


Arrangement

This collection is arranged alphabetically according to interviewee.


Container List

Adams-Johnson, Frankye (34 min.)
Aelony, Zev (50 min.)
Armstong, Thomas Madison III (20 min.)
Audain, Michael (20 min.)
Baum, Robert (42 min.)
Braun-Reinitz, Janet (44 min.)
Browning, Joan C. (36 min.)
Clark Fred (38 min.)
Davidoff, Marv (54 min.)
Dolan, John (22 min.)
Filner, Bob (36 min.)
Forman, James (42 min.); includes transcript
Freedman, Martin (48 min.)
Gaither, Thomas (26 min.)
Geddes, Frances (18 min.)
Gordon, Albert (26 min.); includes transcript
Green, Stephen (38 min.)
Hartmire, Wayne (28 min.)
Heller, Robert (18 min.)
Kale, Edward (28 min.)
Lansky, Lewis (26 min.)
Lee, Mary Harrison (12 min.)
Leonard, Margaret (26 min.)
Little-Vance, Mary (26 min.)
Maguire, John (28 min.)
McDew, Charles (60 min.)
Moody, John Jr; includes transcript
Mulholland, Joan (24 min.); includes transcript
Nelson. Frank (32 min.); includes transcript
Nixon, Sandra (20 min.); includes transcript
O’Connor, Claire (30 min.)
O’Neal-McCray, Helen (33 min.); includes transcript
O’Neal-McCray, Helen (24 min.); includes transcript
Person, Charles (38 min.); includes transcript
Petway, Alphonso & Krendelle Petway Dendy (54 min.)
Roy, Ralph (20 min.)
Silver, Carol Ruth (34 min.)
Singleton, Helen (40 min.); includes transcript
Singleton, Robert (30 min.); includes transcript
Smith, Woolcott (22 min.)
Stoner, Peter (26 min.)
Thomas, Clarence, Jr. (54 min.)
Washington, John (40 min.)



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