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| Creator: | Barber, Rims, 1936- |
| Title: | Oral history with Mr. Rims Barber (1995) |
| Date: | 1995 July 5 |
| Description: | Oral history. An interview conducted on 07-05-1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with Freedom Summer from the National Council of Churches Commission on Religion and Race. As a white man, he says, he came to broaden "support for what people were doing" in Mississippi. He stayed in the homes of local residents in Canton and engaged in door-to-door canvassing, talking to people about voter registration. |
| Types: | Transcripts | Oral histories |
| Subjects: | Barber, Rims, 1936- | Mississippi Freedom Project | Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party | Delta Ministry | National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America | Voter registration--Mississippi--Canton | Voter registration--Mississippi--Madison County | School integration--Mississippi--Canton | School integration--Mississippi--Madison County | Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Canton | Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Madison County | Civil rights--Mississippi | Clergy--Mississippi--Canton | Clergy--Mississippi--Madison County | Canton (Miss.) | Madison County (Miss.) | Jackson (Miss.) | Hinds County (Miss.) | Delta (Miss. : Region) |
| Collection: | USM Oral History |
| Institution: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries |
| Contributors: | Rachal, John | Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage | University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries | Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi) | Mississippi Oral History Program Collection (Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive) |
| Online Publisher: | Hattiesburg, Miss.: University of Southern Mississippi. Oral History Program |
| Original Material: | Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi, vol. 626, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Rights and Usage: | Copyright Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. No unauthorized reproduction or publication. |
| Related Materials: | This interview is part of the Civil Rights Documentation Project, funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the University of Southern Mississippi. 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/u?/coh,9310 |
