- Collection:
- Oral History
- Title:
- Oral history with Mr. Brodie Crump
- Creator:
- Caudill, Orley B
Crump, Brodie - Publisher:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
- Date of Original:
- 1974
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers
Civil rights movement - People:
- Crump, Brodie--Interviews
- Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history.; Interview conducted on February 26, 1974 with Mr. Brodie Crump at his home in Greenville, Mississippi.Crump was born in 1898 in Greenville, Mississippi.After attending Mississippi A&M College, now Mississippi State University, Crump began his business career as a cotton broker.General A. G. Paxton, commanding officer of the Dixie Division, a National Guard unit, was one of the more important buyers in the Greenville area.After retiring to his land in the 1940s, he began writing a column, "Mostly Old Stuff" for the Delta Democrat-Times after the Carter family bought out this newspaper.Both his newspaper column and his recollections in this oral history detail the past scenes of over half a century of Greenville, a Mississippi River town.
Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. - Metadata URL:
- https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_36db4e45-bce9-4681-9690-aab8e81b9622
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
- Rights:
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