| Title: |
Watson, Clara
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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: |
Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on October 15, 1933, to William Griffin and Lodie Brookes Griffin, Mrs. Clara Griffin Watson is the oldest of nine children. Her parents valued education, and they sent Mrs. Watson to Our Mother of Sorrows Catholic School. She spent many summers in Florida with her cousins, and she remembers her childhood as a happy time, although definitely a time of segregation. During the 1960s, Mrs. Watson helped the COFO workers in Mississippi, marched on the Federal Building, and housed some of the civil rights activists in the area for Freedom Summer, 1964.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohwatsonc.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Watson, Clara, 1933-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
15-Oct-1933
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Biloxi, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Activist
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| Age at speaking: |
66
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| Document date: |
28-Oct-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Sartin, Angela
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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: |
OHI0025740-27667
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