- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Leesco Guster oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 03
- Contributor to Resource:
- Guster, Leesco, interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Claiborne Hardware Co.--Trials, litigation, etc.
Deacons for Defense and Justice
Head Start Program (U.S.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African Americans--Segregation
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
African American women civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Civil rights demonstrations--Mississippi--Claiborne County
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Race discrimination--Law and legislation--United States
Social justice--Religious aspects--Christianity
Voter registration--Mississippi
Port Gibson (Miss.)--Race relations--History
Vicksburg (Miss.)--Race relations--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
United States, Mississippi, Warren County, Vicksburg, 32.35265, -90.87788 - Medium:
- personal narratives
interviews
oral histories (literary genre)
video recordings (physical artifacts) - Type:
- MovingImage
- Description:
- Leesco Guster remembers experiencing segregation growing up and working in Port Gibson, Mississippi, and Chicago, Illinois. She recalls her work as an activist in Port Gibson, where she canvassed for voting rights, boycotted segregated businesses, and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She also discusses churches' role in the Civil Rights Movement and her participation in the trial NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co.
Recorded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on December 3, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0118), 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.
Leesco Guster was born in 1936 in Port Gibson, Mississippi. After growing up in various places in Mississippi, she briefly moved to Chicago before returning to Mississippi during the 1960s. She was heavily involved in voter registration is a lifetime member of the NAACP. She has operated a child day care center for over 30 years and continues to be active in her church community.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0118
- 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) (1:15:13) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0118
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
