- Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Patricia A. Crosby and David L. Crosby oral history interview, with Worth W. Long, Carolyn Miller and James Miller, conducted by Emilye Crosby in Port Gibson, Mississippi, 2015 December 04
- Contributor to Resource:
- Crosby, David L., 1941- interviewee
Crosby, Patricia A., interviewee
Long, Worth W., interviewee
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:
- Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Smithsonian Folklife Festival
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Arts and children--Mississippi
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Interviews
Civil rights movements--Mississippi
Civil rights movements--United States
Quiltmakers--Mississippi
Claiborne County (Miss.)--Race relations
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:
- Patricia and David Crosby discuss the founding and subsequent work of the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, a cultural arts organization in Port Gibson. The organization was a legacy of the Civil Rights Movement and it did important activist work in generating arts and cultural activities and documenting and interpreting local movement history. Worth Long, James and Carolyn Miller, who were involved in the organization also participate in the interview.
Recorded in Port Gibson, Mississippi, on December 4, 2015.
Civil Rights History Project collection (AFC 2010/039: 0120), 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.).
David L. Crosby is a civil rights activist. He co-founded Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1976.
Patricia A. Crosby is a civil rights activist. She co-founded Mississippi Cultural Crossroads in Port Gibson, Mississippi in 1976.
Worth W. Long was born in 1936 in Durham, North Carolina. He became involved with organizing events in the civil rights movement as early as 1956, continuing through the 1960s, including participation in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He joined the Mississippi Cultural Crossroads Board in 1980.
Carolyn Miller was born in Alcorn, Mississippi in 1953 and grew up in Hermanville and Port Gibson, Mississippi. She was involved in the youth chapter of the NAACP, where she met her husband, James Miller, and she participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. She taught at A. W. Watson elementary school, was involved in Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, and was a library board member.
James E. Miller was born in 1949 and grew up in Port Gibson, Mississippi, where he met his wife, Carolyn Miller, in the youth group of the NAACP and participated in the Port Gibson boycotts. He was involved with Mississippi Cultural Crossroads and worked as County Administrator in Claiborne County, Mississippi.
Cultural Crossroads was founded by David L. and Patricia A. Crosby in the late 1970s with a $2500 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Their mission is to promote the educational, cultural, and economic development of the Port Gibson and Claiborne County community by providing and supporting programs in the arts and humanities which will develop talents, provide outlets for personal expression, and create opportunities for persons of diverse cultural backgrounds to celebrate their heritages and gain respect for other cultures.
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 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/eadafc.af013005 - Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc2010039.afc2010039_crhp0120
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Collection is open for research. To request materials, please contact the Folklife Reading Room at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/folklife.contact
- Extent:
- 8 video files (Apple ProRes 422 HQ, QuickTime wrapper) (03:19:54) : digital, sound, color.
transcript 1 item (.pdf) : text files. - Original Collection:
- Civil Rights History Project collection AFC 2010/039: 0120
- Contributing Institution:
- American Folklife Center
- Rights:
-
