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| Creator: | Catchings, Troy, 1942- |
| Creator: | Hill, Homer |
| Creator: | Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
| Title: | Oral history with Mr. Troy Catchings Jr. |
| Date: | 1994 Mar. 15 |
| Description: | Oral history. Interview conducted on March 15, 1994 with Troy Catchings, Jr. (born 1942). In 1966, he began working with Coahoma Opportunities, Inc. (COI), an antipoverty agency that serves the African-American and poor white communities of Clarksdale and Coahoma County. In his more than thirty years with COI, Catchings has served as techincal assistant and worked with the adult education program. At the time of this interview, he was director of COI. Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Types: | Transcripts | Oral histories | Text |
| Subjects: | Catchings, Troy, 1942- | Gooden, Bennie | African Americans--Mississippi | Community centers--Mississippi--Employees--Interviews | Civil rights--Mississippi--History | Black power--United States | Coahoma Opportunities | Economic assistance, Domestic--Mississippi | Head Start Program (U.S.) | Poor--Services for--Mississippi | African Americans--Economic conditions--Mississippi | United States, Mississippi, Clarksdale | United States, Mississippi, Coahoma County |
| Collection: | USM Oral History |
| Institution: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries |
| Contributors: | University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries |
| Original Material: | Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi, vol. 639, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Rights and Usage: | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of the Mississippi Oral History Program Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. Forms part of the Mississippi Digital Library. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://digilib.usm.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/coh/id/15381 |
