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Project 65 Mississippi summer

Title: Project 65 [sound recording] : Mississippi summer / prepared by Eleanor Fisher, Lloyd Chester, Barry Morgan; executive producer, Harry J. Boyle.
Publication: 1965.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	discs 1-2	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-2858 JRC discs 1-2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Jerome Robbins Collection

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 119 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Two-part radio documentary about the experiences of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964, including interviews with civil rights activists and Mississippi residents on both sides of the debate about civil rights, segregation and voter registration. Part one begins with a discussion of the murder of three civil rights activists, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Chaney, near Philadelphia, Miss., and includes an interview with Schwerner's widow, Rita, an excerpt from a speech given at Chaney's memorial service, and interviews with local residents. The social conditions of Mississippi are explored through interviews with residents, who discuss the nature of racism in the South; the purpose of the White Citizens Councils; the use of derogatory racial language; the insularity of Mississippi and resentment of outsiders seen as "agitators," and the economy of plantations and tenant farmers, described by farmer Hartman Turnbow. In a section on violence in the civil rights conflict, Fannie Lou Hamer describes being beaten in a jail in Winona, Miss., and a volunteer from Wisconsin describes being beaten in a medical clinic. Conditions in the black community of Harmony, where some out-of-state activists stayed, are discussed.
The second part of the documentary begins with a focus on cultural differences between white Mississippi residents and visiting activists, with comments from the mayor of McComb, Miss. A segment explores the boycott of white-owned stores in Greenwood, Miss., sponsored by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The educational system in Mississippi, and the creation of Freedom Schools, is discussed, with recordings of a class in a Freedom School conducting a lesson on the Birmingham riots. The remainder of the program focuses on issues surrounding the registration of black voters and the efforts of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Hartman Turnbow describes his attempt to register to vote, and the subsequent firebombing of his home. A teenage volunteer from out of state, Joe Harris, is recorded canvasing for the MFDP.

Alternative Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Subjects

Note

Radio documentary about the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer, produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Sound quality is good.
Title and credits derived from auditing the recording. No information on original container, except title: Mississippi.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Source (note)

Estate of Jerome Robbins

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Contents

Disc 1. Part one: The way things are (59 min.) -- Disc 2. Part two: The way things may be (60 min.)

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2858 JRC discs 1-2

OCLC

777224704

Title

Project 65 [sound recording] : Mississippi summer / prepared by Eleanor Fisher, Lloyd Chester, Barry Morgan; executive producer, Harry J. Boyle.

Imprint

1965.

Performer

Narrator: Harry Mannis. Interviewees include Fannie Lou Hamer (civil rights activist), Rita Schwerner (widow of Michael Schwerner), Mike Starr (law student), Louis Hollis (president of White Citizens' Council), Jerry Simmons (sports coach), John Polachek (Freedom Project volunteer), Hartman Turnbow (farmer and voting rights activist), Aaron Henry (president of Miss. chapter NAACP), Dixon Pyles (lawyer), Joe Harris (Freedom Project volunteer), and others.

Original Version

Original format : 4 sound reels (ca. 119 min.; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 2 channels). Originally recorded in 1965.

Funding

Preservation was funded by the Jerome Robbins Foundation.

Linking Entry

Forms part of: Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Local Note

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-2858 JRC reels 1-4

Source

Gift; Estate of Jerome Robbins, 1999. NN-PD

Added Author

Boyle, Harry J. Producer

Fischer, Eleanor S. Creator

Chester, Lloyd. Creator

Morgan, Barry. Creator

Mannis, Harry. Narrator

Hamer, Fannie Lou. Interviewee

Bender, Rita L. Interviewee

Starr, Michael. Interviewee

Hollis, Louis W. Interviewee

Turnbow, Hartman. Interviewee

Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997. Interviewee

Pyles, Dixon. Interviewee

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Estate of Jerome Robbins. Donor

Added Title

Jerome Robbins Collection. Audio materials.

Found In:

Jerome Robbins Collection

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2858 JRC discs 1-2

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