- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Rosie Head oral history interview conducted by John Dittmer in Tchula, Mississippi, 2013-03-13
- Creator:
- Civil Rights History Project (U.S.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dittmer, John, 1939-
Head, Rosie M. - Date of Original:
- 2013-03-13
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--United States
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Mississippi Freedom Project
Head Start programs--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi
Child Development Group of Mississippi - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, 33.12351, -90.09205
United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, Tchula, 33.1829, -90.22286 - 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:
- Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheated by the plantation owner and then blacklisted. In 1964, Head joined the Civil Rights Movement in Tchula, Mississippi, where her family had relocated. Head recounts the various ways she was involved in the movement: registering voters, working with Freedom Summer volunteers, helping to establish the Child Development Group of Mississippi, and campaigning for black candidates for political office.
- Metadata URL:
- http://www.loc.gov/item/afc2010039_crhp0074/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 7 video files of 7 (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (79 min.) : digital, sound, color. 1 transcript (43 pages)
application/x-video
image/jpg - Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights: