Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History

An Interview with Reverend Ed King, November 8, 1980 / interviewed by John Jones[sound recording].

By: King, Ed, (Ralph Edwin) Rev, 1936-.
Contributor(s): Jones, John Griffin.
Material type: materialTypeLabelMixed materialsDescription: 1 reel to reel tape (327 min.) : analog, 15/16ths ips ; 5 in. 1 transcript (159 p.).Subject(s): King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | King, Ed, (Ralph Edwin) Rev., 1936- | Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963 | Beittel, A. D. (Adam David), 1898-1988 | Tougaloo College | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) | African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi | Civil rights -- Mississippi | Civil rights workers -- Mississippi | Voter registration -- Mississippi | Demonstrations -- 1960-1970 | Race relations -- Mississippi | Jackson (Miss.) | Hinds County (Miss.) | McComb (Miss.)Genre/Form: Oral histories.Online resources: Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 1 | Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 2 | Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 3 | Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 4
Contents:
Part 1 -- Tougaloo Chaplin 1963 -- Leadership of the AMA -- First white student at Tougaloo -- The faculty at Tougaloo -- The black middle class -- Student involvement in freedom movement -- Dr. Beittel -- Part 2 -- First movement activity -- Boycotts and voter registration -- Demonstrations -- Medgar Evers -- Biracial committee -- John Salter and Medgar Evers -- NAACP and SNCC -- Eureka College and Ronald Reagan -- Woolworth's lunch counter and bail bonds -- Part 3 -- Jackson Movement, boycotts and demonstrations -- SNCC and Birmingham 1963 -- Choosing demonstrations -- The right to decide who demonstrates -- Starting project in Philadelphia and killings -- Site of three civil rights workers' murders -- Story of a monument to Mississippi decency -- What the killings meant to the Civil Rights Movement -- The McComb Project -- The freedom vote and sites observed -- Part 4 -- Sites observed continued -- Nonviolent resistance harder to push -- How Neshoba killings changed the movement -- Violence and nonviolence 1963-1965 -- Mileston and Arms -- Having a gun -- Part 5 -- Having a gun continued -- The Jackson Movement and the Woolworth's sit-in -- The influx of people after the sit-in -- Police brutality -- Jackson needs a biracial committee -- Gassing the building holding student prisoners -- Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and the NAACP.
Summary: Interview of Reverend Ed King was conducted by John Jones on November 8, 1980.
Item type Current location Collection Shelving location Call number Status Notes Date due Barcode
Online Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Electronic Archives Online Electronic Resource AU 106 Not for loan Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 1 82781
Online Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Electronic Archives Online Electronic Resource AU 106 Not for loan Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 2 82782
Online Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Electronic Archives Online Electronic Resource AU 106 Not for loan Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 3 82783
Online Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Electronic Archives Online Electronic Resource AU 106 Not for loan Link to Electronic Resource for Transcript part 4 82784
By Permission Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Oral History Audio and Transcripts Archival Reading Room AU 106 - King, Ed original transcript (2 folders) Not for loan See Reference Desk. B143219
Media Request Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Oral History Audio and Transcripts Media Room AU 106 Available Transcript B143218
Online Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Electronic Archives Media Room AU 106 Not for loan Access in Media Room; headphones required. B143217

Part 1 -- Tougaloo Chaplin 1963 -- Leadership of the AMA -- First white student at Tougaloo -- The faculty at Tougaloo -- The black middle class -- Student involvement in freedom movement -- Dr. Beittel -- Part 2 -- First movement activity -- Boycotts and voter registration -- Demonstrations -- Medgar Evers -- Biracial committee -- John Salter and Medgar Evers -- NAACP and SNCC -- Eureka College and Ronald Reagan -- Woolworth's lunch counter and bail bonds -- Part 3 -- Jackson Movement, boycotts and demonstrations -- SNCC and Birmingham 1963 -- Choosing demonstrations -- The right to decide who demonstrates -- Starting project in Philadelphia and killings -- Site of three civil rights workers' murders -- Story of a monument to Mississippi decency -- What the killings meant to the Civil Rights Movement -- The McComb Project -- The freedom vote and sites observed -- Part 4 -- Sites observed continued -- Nonviolent resistance harder to push -- How Neshoba killings changed the movement -- Violence and nonviolence 1963-1965 -- Mileston and Arms -- Having a gun -- Part 5 -- Having a gun continued -- The Jackson Movement and the Woolworth's sit-in -- The influx of people after the sit-in -- Police brutality -- Jackson needs a biracial committee -- Gassing the building holding student prisoners -- Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and the NAACP.

Original tapes are restricted.

Interview of Reverend Ed King was conducted by John Jones on November 8, 1980.

MP3 files, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, [2007]. Audio tape Audio recording transferred to WAV files then converted to MP3 files.

PDF files, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, [2012]. Transcript Transcript scanned as PDF files.

Mode of access: Internet browser with PDF reader and MP3 player.

File containing original versions of transcript in various stages of editing available by permission from curator.