- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Jones oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Claiborne County, Mississippi, 2015 December 03
- Contributor to Resource:
- Jones, Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1914-2018, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Alcorn State University--History
Claiborne Hardware Co.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Deacons for Defense and Justice
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
United States.--Voting Rights Act of 1965
African American business enterprises--Mississippi
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Boycotts--Mississippi--Port Gibson
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Discrimination in the military--United States
Poll tax--Mississippi
School integration--Mississippi
Sharecroppers--Mississippi
Voter registration--Mississippi
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, African American
Claiborne County (Miss.)--History - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Mississippi, Claiborne County, 31.97369, -90.91181
United States, Mississippi, Claiborne County, Port Gibson, 31.96099, -90.98399 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne Jones was born in Claiborne County, Mississippi in 1914. He recalls his involvement in the Civil Rights Movement, specifically the Port Gibson Movement, in Mississippi. He discusses being drafted into the Navy in 1944 and the racial discrimination he experienced in his role as a Steward Mate. During the Port Gibson Movement, he was involved in the Port Gibson Merchant Boycotts, organizing protests at Alcorn College, and participating in voter registration activities.
Recorded in Claiborne County, Mississippi, on December 3, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0117), 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.).
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_crhp0117
- 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:
- 12 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (1:53:28) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0117
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
