McComb, Mississippi Civil Rights Activists by Joseph Sinsheimer (text only)

Participants include Charles Smith, William Jenkins, Joe Martin, Rev. Harry Bowie, Edith Moore, L.B. Butler, and Jessie Devines, all civil rights activists in McComb, MS. Interview with Sinsheimer. Participants discussed: their childhood in the segregated South; black role models in the segregated South; leadership of C.C. Bryant in McComb race relations; the creation of the Pike County Voter's League in the 1940s; a school walk-out by a group of black Burgland High School students in the fall of 1961; changes in the movement from 1961 to 1964; role of Robert Moses in the Mississippi campaign.