| Title: |
Dean, Kenneth
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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: |
Mississippi Oral History Project
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| Description: |
The Rev. Kenneth Dean is a native of Rogersville, Tennessee. He attended Colgate Rochester, a Baptist divinity school in Rochester, N.Y., and later served as chair of the school’s social action committee. From 1964 to 1970, he served as executive director of the Mississippi Council on Human Relations. In 1970, Rev. Dean and the United Church of Christ won a lawsuit to strip the FCC license from WLBT, a Jackson television station. Rev. Dean worked as the station’s president until 1980. Currently, Rev. Dean works as the assistant to the mayor of Rochester, N.Y.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohdeank.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1997 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Dean, Kenneth
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Rogersville, TN; Tennessee; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Clergy
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| Document date: |
30-Oct-1997
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| Interviewer: |
Bolton, Charles
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025624-27515
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