usm_coh_ohsteptoe ohsteptoe coh usm yes Oral history with Mr. Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. Steptoe, Elridge W., 1936- Congress of Racial Equality Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.) United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965 Civil rights workers--Mississippi--McComb Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Pikes County Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Liberty Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Amite County Steptoe, Elridge W., 1936- Lee, Herbert, 1919-1961 Oral history. Interview conducted on 11-14-1995 with Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. (born 1936). Mr. Steptoe witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950's and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in Amite County shortly after the incident. 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. Hattiesburg, Miss. : University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Dykes, Jimmy 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) Transcripts Oral histories http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/coh,6880 Mississippi oral history program of the University of Southern MS, vol. 653, McCain Library, 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. 1995-11-14 McComb (Miss.) Pike County (Miss.) Jackson (Miss.) Hinds County (Miss.) Liberty (Miss.) Amite County (Miss.) Copyright Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. No unauthorized reproduction or publication. 20090817 151132