| Title: |
Rims Barber
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Civil Rights Documentation Project
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| Description: |
An interview conducted on 07-05-1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with Freedom Summer from the National Council of Churches Commission on Religion and Race. As a white man, he says, he came to broaden "support for what people were doing" in Mississippi. He stayed in the homes of local residents in Canton and engaged in door-to-door canvassing, talking to people about voter registration
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| Extent: |
1 pages
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/barber95.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1995 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Barber, Rims, 1936-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
29-Nov-1936
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Chicago, IL; Illinois; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Civil rights activist; Presbyterian minister
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| Age at speaking: |
59
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| Document date: |
05-Jul-1995
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| Interviewer: |
Rachal, John
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| Organizations discussed: |
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; White Citizens Council
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| Historical events discussed: |
Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements--United States; Martin Luther King's March on Washington, DC, August 28, 1963; Mississippi; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Baltimore, MD; North America; Oral history; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, US; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; United States; White Citizens Council
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Activism
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0023460-24967
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