- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Carolyn Miller and James Miller oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04
- Contributor to Resource:
- Miller, Carolyn, 1953- interviewee
Miller, James E., 1949- interviewee
Crosby, Emilye, interviewer
Bishop, John Melville, videographer
Civil Rights History Project (U.S.) - Date of Original:
- 2015
- Subject:
- Alcorn State University--History
Deacons for Defense and Justice
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi
Boycotts--Mississippi--Port Gibson
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Voter registration--Mississippi
Port Gibson (Miss.)--Race relations--History - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
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:
- James and Carolyn Miller discuss their experience of living in Port Gibson, Mississippi during the Port Gibson Movement. They specifically reference the downtown merchant boycotts and how race and class tensions impacted the local community. They discuss their persistence in building interracial coalitions and emphasize the strength of local community building, political accountability and leadership for the sustainability of Port Gibson.
Recorded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on December 4, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0119), 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.
James and Carolyn Miller both grew up in Port Gibson, Mississippi, where they met in the youth group of the NAACP, where they participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. The Millers created the downtown improvement initiative, Cultural Crossroads, as a platform to urge the need for local support of black businesses.
In English.
Finding aid http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0119
- 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:
- 9 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (2:20:23) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0119
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
