| Title: |
William F. Dukes
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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: |
Interview conducted on January 23, 1973 with Mr. William Dukes in his office in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dukes was born in the Sullivans' Hollow area near Raleigh, in Smith County, Mississippi on January 15, 1927. After his discharge from the Navy in 1946, Dukes attended Mississippi Southern College, now the University of Southern Mississippi. Upon graduation Dukes earned a BA degree from USM and a L.L.B. from the University of Mississippi. He then went on to be accepted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After his training was complete Dukes was assigned to the FBI office in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He eventually made it back to Mississippi where he became senior Resident-Agent in charge of the Gulfport office. Dukes was involved in the struggle to prevent organized crime from gaining a foothold on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and in the "war with the Klan" in civil rights cases. He was instrumental in the apprehension of the alleged killers in the Vernon Dahmer murder case.
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| Extent: |
1 page
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| URL: |
http://anna.lib.usm.edu/%7Espcol/crda/oh/ohdukeswp.html
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| Restrictions: |
The transcript is presented here for reference purposes only. Interviews in this collection are protected by copyright.
PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1973 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Dukes, William F., 1927-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
15-Jan-1927
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Speaker occupation: |
Former FBI agent
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| Age at speaking: |
46
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| Document date: |
23-Jan-1973
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| Interviewer: |
Caudill, Orley B.
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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: |
OHI0023561-25074
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