| Title: |
Ariel Barnes
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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: |
Mrs. Ariel Barnes was born in Forest, Mississippi. When Mrs. Barnes was two weeks old, her father's occupation as a blacksmith brought her family to Hattiesburg. She was the second of five children. During her first-grade through tenth-grade years, she attended Hattiesburg schools, but she finished her public school education in Chattanooga, Tennessee, when she went to live there with her mother's sister. She attended Alcorn University where she earned a degree enabling her to teach school. She taught at Rowan in Hattiesburg. Additionally she worked at the Hattiesburg Library's branch on Sixth Street.
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| Extent: |
1 page
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/barnes.htm
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1993 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Barnes, Ariel, 1917-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1917
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Teacher
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| Age at speaking: |
76
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| Document date: |
01-Apr-1993
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| Interviewer: |
Rowe, Sarah
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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: |
OHI0023462-24969
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