- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Euvester Simpson oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Jackson, Mississippi, 2013-03-12
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dittmer, John, 1939-
Simpson, Euvester, 1945- - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-12
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party - People:
- Hamer, Fannie Lou
- Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
interviews
transcripts
moving images - Type:
- MovingImage
Text - Format:
- image/gif
image/jpeg
image/jp2
image/tiff
text/xml
application/pdf - Description:
- Euvester Simpson discusses her childhood in Itta Bena, Mississippi, and she describes her parents' decision to send her to Racine, Wisconsin, to attend high school because they were fed up with segregated public schools in Mississippi. For her last year of high school, Simpson returned to Mississippi, and she became active in the Civil Rights Movement. She describes attending a citizenship school in Charleston, South Carolina, going to mass meetings, and being arrested with a group of women, including Fannie Lou Hamer. She also discusses her involvement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Council of Federated Organizations, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Simpson ends the interview by discussing the legacy of the movement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0072/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video files of 7 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (95 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (49 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
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