- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Clarence Magee oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 2015 December 01
- Contributor to Resource:
- Magee, Clarence, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Deacons for Defense and Justice
Head Start Program (U.S.)
Mississippi Freedom Project
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African American teachers--Mississippi--Interviews
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Lynching
Police-community relations--Mississippi
Segregation in education--Mississippi
Hattiesburg (Miss.)--Race relations - 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:
- Clarence Magee discusses the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He recalls growing up in Marion County, Mississippi, where he was pushed by his family to pursue an education. He remembers becoming involved with the Hattiesburg branch of the NAACP after he was barred from registering to vote in 1956, then working in sensitivity training for Freedom Summer volunteers. He also discusses teaching in schools, working for the federal government, and co-founding the Hattiesburg Association for Civic Improvement.
Recorded in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on December 1, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0113), 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.).
Clarence Magee, born in 1932 in Columbia, Mississippi, was the oldest of ten children and was raised working on his parents' farm. He studied biology at Alcorn A&M graduating in 1954, and attended graduate school at Harvard. He served in the U.S. Army for two years and was stationed in Germany. After leaving the service he taught in several schools in Hattiesburg. He cofounded the Hattiesburg Association for Civic Improvement and was active in helping schools formulate desegregation plans. He was also involved in NAACP and in training for the Freedom Summer. He later worked for the Southern Mississippi Planning and Development Commission and the federal Department of Agriculture, Food, and Consumer Service office in Mobile, Alabama.
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_crhp0113
- 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) (1:50:33) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0113
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
