- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Raylawni G. Branch and Jeanette Smith oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 01
- Contributor to Resource:
- Smith, Jeanette, 1940-2018, interviewee
Branch, Raylawni G., 1941- interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.)
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Head Start Program (U.S.)
Medical Committee for Human Rights (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Project
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
University of Southern Mississippi
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.)--Personal narratives
African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African American women civil rights workers--United States--Interviews
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
School integration--Mississippi--Hattiesburg
Segregation in education--Mississippi
Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity
Hattiesburg (Miss.)--Race relations--History - 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:
- Raylawni G. Branch and Jeanette Smith discuss their involvement in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi-based Civil Rights Movement. They remember their upbringings as mixed race children, Smith in Mississippi and Branch in Mississippi and Chicago, Illinois. Branch recalls entering as one of the first black students at the University of Southern Mississippi. Both speak about their activism for voting rights and education, as well as sharing their philosophies on issues of race, discrimination, and activism.
Recorded in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on December 1, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0112), 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.).
Jeanette Smith, Mississippi Civil Rights worker, worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO).
Raylawni G. Branch, Mississippi pioneer of the Civil Rights Movement, a professional nursing educator and US Air Force Reserve officer. She is best known for her leading role in the integration of the University of Southern Mississippi (Hattiesburg) in 1965.
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_crhp0112
- 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:
- 6 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:36:43) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0112
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
