- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Peggy Jean Connor oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 November 30
- Contributor to Resource:
- Connor, Peggy Jean, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Child Development Group of Mississippi
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Head Start Program (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party
Mississippi Freedom Project
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
United States.--Civil Rights Act of 1964
Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)--Personal narratives
African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
Beauty shops--Mississippi
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Police brutality--Mississippi
Poliomyelitis
Poll tax--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
School integration--Mississippi
Segregation in education--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Mississippi--Politics and government--20th century - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Forrest County, Hattiesburg, 31.32712, -89.29034 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Peggy Jean Connor discusses her role in the Civil Rights Movement in southern Mississippi. She focuses particularly on voter registration, Freedom Day, being a Democratic National Convention delegate, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), her arrest, organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), and the "Connor vs. Johnson" lawsuit.
Recorded in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on November 30, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0111), Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Copies of items are also held at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (U.S.).
Peggy Jean Connor is a strong movement activist, whose early involvement in voter registration included two important lawsuits. She was very active in Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP).
The Civil Rights History Project is a joint project of the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture to collect video and audio recordings of personal histories and testimonials of individuals who participated in the Civil Rights movement.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0111
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 7 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:21:14) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0111
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
