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Story of Greenwood, Mississippi

Producer:
Carawan, Guy  Search this
Recorder:
Carawan, Guy  Search this
Carawan, Candie  Search this
Performer:
Moses, Robert Parris  Search this
Gregory, Dick  Search this
Evers, Medgar Wiley, 1925-1963  Search this
Collection Creator:
Asch, Moses  Search this
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964  Search this
Folkways Records  Search this
Extent:
1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
Culture:
Americans  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Place:
United States
Mississippi
Greenwood (Miss.)
Contents:
Story of Greenwood--Story pt. 1--Get on board children--Keep your eyes on the prize--This little light of mine--Bob Moses--Greenwood story--Fannie Lou Hamer--Greenwood story
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-4302
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mississippi, United States, 1963.
General:
Folkways 5593

CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Topic:
Documentary  Search this
Spoken word  Search this
United States -- History  Search this
Civil rights  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-4302
See more items in:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection
Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / Commercial / Folkways Recordings
Archival Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk54c4f2b95-7f66-4bae-8fdf-d57bb3e748b7
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-cfch-asch-ref25987

Story of Greenwood, Mississippi

Producer:
Carawan, Guy  Search this
Recorder:
Carawan, Guy  Search this
Carawan, Candie  Search this
Performer:
Moses, Robert Parris  Search this
Hamer, Fannie Lou  Search this
Collection Creator:
Asch, Moses  Search this
Distler, Marian, 1919-1964  Search this
Folkways Records  Search this
Extent:
1 Sound recording (sound-tape reel, analog, 7 in.)
Culture:
Americans  Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Sound recordings
Place:
United States
Mississippi
Greenwood (Miss.)
Contents:
This little light of mine--Story of Greenwood--Get on board, children--Greenwood story--Fannie Lou Hamer--Greenwood story
Track Information:
101 This Little Light of Mine.

102 The Story of Greenwood, Mississippi / Robert Parris Moses.

103 Freedom Songs-- Get on Board, Children.

104 Greenwood Story / Robert Parris Moses.

105 Fannie Lou Hamer / Fannie Lou Hamer.

106 Greenwood Story / Robert Parris Moses.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-7RR-4303
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded in: Mississippi, United States.
General:
Folkways 5593

Documentary; recorded and produced by Guy Carawan for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections. Please visit our website to learn more about submitting a request. The Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections make no guarantees concerning copyright or other intellectual property restrictions. Other usage conditions may apply; please see the Smithsonian's Terms of Use for more information.
Topic:
Documentary  Search this
Spoken word  Search this
United States -- History  Search this
Civil rights  Search this
Civil rights movements -- United States -- Songs and music  Search this
African Americans  Search this
Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
CFCH.ASCH, Item FW-ASCH-7RR-4303
See more items in:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection
Moses and Frances Asch Collection / Series 9: Audio Recordings / CD / Commercial / Folkways Recordings
Archival Repository:
Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/bk5befb1dbe-8c67-44ed-afbe-b592995e0fea
EDAN-URL:
ead_component:sova-cfch-asch-ref25988

Bob Moses, Diane Nash, and Reverend James Lawson

Photograph by:
Platon, British, born 1968  Search this
Subject of:
Robert Parris Moses, American, 1935 - 2021  Search this
Diane Nash, American, born 1938  Search this
James Lawson Jr., American, born 1928  Search this
Medium:
pigment on paper
Dimensions:
H x W (image): 17 × 24 in. (43.2 × 61 cm)
H x W (sheet): 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Type:
pigment prints
portraits
Place printed:
New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
Date:
2009; printed 2019
Topic:
African American  Search this
Activism  Search this
Civil Rights  Search this
Education  Search this
Photography  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Platon
Object number:
2021.33.15
Restrictions & Rights:
© Platon
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
See more items in:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Classification:
Media Arts-Photography
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5525a8c12-248c-4291-9bcd-99304a65365e
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2021.33.15
Online Media:

Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection

Creator:
McNamara, Norris  Search this
Moon, Moses  Search this
Names:
Freedom Singers (SNCC)  Search this
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990  Search this
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993  Search this
Baez, Joan  Search this
Baker, Ella, 1903-1986  Search this
Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975  Search this
Baldwin, James, 1924-1987  Search this
Barry, Marion, 1936-  Search this
Bikel, Theodore  Search this
Carawan, Guy  Search this
Conyers, John, 1929-  Search this
Donaldson, Ivanhoe  Search this
Dylan, Bob, 1941-  Search this
Ferebee, Dorothy Boulding , 1898?-1980  Search this
Forman, James, 1928-2005  Search this
Gregory, Dick  Search this
Guyot, Lawrence, 1939-  Search this
Hamer, Fannie Lou  Search this
Height , Dorothy I. (Dorothy Irene), 1912-2010  Search this
Horne, Lena  Search this
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968  Search this
Lewis, John  Search this
Moses, Robert  Search this
Moses, Robert Parris  Search this
Odetta, 1930-2008  Search this
Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005  Search this
Reagon, Bernice Johnson, 1942-  Search this
Reagon, Cordell  Search this
Robinson , Amelia Boynton, 1911-2015  Search this
Robinson, Jackie  Search this
Rustin, Bayard, 1912-1987  Search this
Seeger, Pete, 1919-2014  Search this
Sherrod, Charles, 1937-  Search this
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011  Search this
Extent:
4 Cubic feet (18 boxes)
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Audiotapes
Sound recordings
Date:
1963-1964
Summary:
Recorded by Moses Moon (known at the time as Alan Ribback) and assisted by Norris McNamara during 1963 and 1964, the collection includes audio recordings of interviews with civil rights leaders and participants as well as free-style recordings of mass meetings, voter registration events, and other gatherings organized by Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). This collection provides a mostly unfiltered documentation of significant moments in the civil rights movement.
Scope and Contents:
This collection consists of 115 reel to reel audio recordings containing interviews, mass meetings, demonstrations, and conversations concerning the civil rights movement, and in particular the voter registration drives organized by SNCC in Alabama and Mississippi in 1963 and 1964. Mass meetings were recorded in Greenwood, Mississippi; Americus, Georgia; Selma, Alabama; Jackson, Mississippi; Danville, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and Indianola, Mississippi. Major demonstrations recorded include the March on Washington in August of 1963, Freedom Day in Selma, Alabama in October of 1963, and Freedom Day in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in January of 1964. Interviews with SNCC workers include Julian Bond, John Lewis, James Forman, Bruce Gordon, Prathia Hall, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Bob Moses, Avery Williams, Willie Peacock, Bruce Boynton and his mother, as well as dozens of others involved in the movement, who are named in the collection inventory. Many of those interviewed were actively involved in strategizing and carrying out SNCC demonstrations and political actions, and many were victims of death threats, beatings, unlawful arrest, police brutality, and torture and abuse in prison. These interviews contain detailed eyewitness accounts and personal testimony regarding these experiences, as well as personal history and thoughts about the movement, the South, and the future.

It is clear from what we know of the dates and locations of these recordings, as well as from documentation of these events in other sources, that many of these recordings are unique documents of important events in American history, which may also contain the commentary of important political and cultural figures who were involved in the movement. For example, an article by Howard Zinn recounts how an unidentified man recorded James Baldwin on October 7, 1963, Freedom Day in Selma, on the steps of the courthouse. Baldwin was furious at the lack of support from nearby federal agents as state troopers advanced on peaceful demonstrators. One of the tapes dated October 7, 1963, originally labeled "courthouse interviews," appears to be this recoding, although Baldwin is not named. The same article (available in The Howard Zinn Reader) recounts the mass meetings which led up to that demonstration, at which actor Dick Gregory gave a rousing sermon as his wife sat in jail for demonstrating in Selma. The Moses Moon Collection may be the only existing audio recording of that sermon as well as many other sermons and speeches.

Moses Moon changed his name after these recordings were made. He is referred to in the finding aid as Alan Ribback because that name is used on the recordings.
Arrangement:
The collection is arranged in two series.Series 1 is in chronological order to the degree recording dates can be determined, and is based on the locations and dates provided by Moon in his description or gleaned from the recordings themselves and other secondary sources. Series 1 contains 17 groups of recordings.

Moon's original numbers are recorded in the column next to the descriptions. Following the first four Greenwood tapes, which are numbered sequentially, Moon's numbering system took the first two letters of the town in which the recordings were made, a one (1), a decimal, and then a tape number. Numbers preceding the town code refer to the recording day. "N" numbers were later assigned by Moon to the 7" reels only, after the original recordings were made, possibly during editing or when the tapes were made available to the Program in African American Culture.

Series 1, Original Tapes

1. Greenwood, Mississippi; Spring 1963; 4 7" reels

2. Chicago, Illinois; August 9, 12, 1963; 2 5" reels

3. Americus, Georgia; August 17, 1963; 5 5" reels, 1 7" reel

4. Atlanta, Georgia; August 21, 1963; 1 5" reel

5. Washington, D.C.; August 26-28, 1963; 6 5", 8 7" reels

6. Atlanta, Georgia; September 8, 1963; 4 5" reels

7. Selma, Alabama; September 29-October 7, 1963; 11 5" reels, 16 7" reels

8. Gadsden, Alabama; October 23, 1963; 2 5" reels

9. Jackson, Mississippi; Fall/Winter 1963; 11 7" reels

10. Greenwood, Mississippi; c. November 3, 1963; 3 5" reels, 4 7" reels

11. Danville, Virginia; 1963; 6 7" reels

12. Washington, D.C.; soon after November 22, 1963; 6 7" reels

13. Washington, D.C.; late 1963, or possibly during MOW; 10 7" reels

14. Hattiesburg, Mississippi; January 1964; 9 7" reels

15. Indianola, Mississippi; Summer 1964; 2 7" reels

16. Monroe County, Mississippi; August 1, 1964; 4 5" reels

17. Milton, Mississippi; August 16, 1964; 3 5" reels

Series 2, Preservation Masters consists of data DVDs for a portion of the collection.
Biographical / Historical:
Moses Moon was born Alan Ribback in 1928. During the 1950s until 1962, Ribback was the proprietor of the Gate of Horn, Chicago's premier folk music club, which featured performers including Bob Gibson, Odetta, Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Jo Mapes, Peter, Paul and Mary, Lenny Bruce, and Shelley Berman. On December 5, 1962, Lenny Bruce was arrested during a performance at the Gate of Horn along with Ribback, George Carlin, and others. As a result of the arrest and Bruce's subsequent conviction for obscenity, the club was closed by the City of Chicago, and Ribback left Chicago with Norris McNamara, an audio technician, to record folk concerts taking place in the South as part of the growing civil rights movement. From the spring of 1963 until the summer of 1964, Ribback and McNamara recorded demonstrations and mass meetings and interviewed civil rights activists, primarily those involved in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Later, Ribback moved to New York and edited his recordings into an album called Movement Soul. Ribback married Delia Moon in 1971, took her last name and changed his first name to Moses. In 1979, Bernice Reagon Johnson, working with the Program on African American Culture at the Smithsonian, contacted Moon and borrowed the recordings of mass meetings for a 1980 program on the voices of the civil rights movement. In the late 1980s, Moon was stricken with a severe case of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which left him paralyzed. Moon donated the entire collection of original recordings shortly before his death in 1993.
Related Materials:
Materials at Other Organizations

The papers of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee are held by the King Library and Archives in Atlanta, Georgia; archives@thekingcenter.org.
Provenance:
Donated by Moses and Delia Moon in 1995.
Restrictions:
Collection is open for research. Reference copies must be used. Tapes noted in the container list have digital reference copies in the Smithsonian Institution Digital Asset Management System (DAMS).
Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but copyright status unknown. Contact Archives Center staff for additional information. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Topic:
African American civil rights workers.  Search this
African American preaching.  Search this
Mississippi Freedom Project  Search this
Civil rights movements  Search this
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)  Search this
Civil rights  Search this
Voter registration  Search this
African Americans -- Civil rights  Search this
African American student movements.  Search this
Folk music  Search this
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., 1963  Search this
Gospel music  Search this
Genre/Form:
Audiotapes -- Open reel
Sound recordings
Audiotapes
Citation:
Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection, 1963-1964, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier:
NMAH.AC.0556
See more items in:
Moses Moon Civil Rights Movement Audio Collection
Archival Repository:
Archives Center, National Museum of American History
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ep8f8d8405e-ab8d-486c-96c7-58c33804c206
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-nmah-ac-0556

Marian Wright Edelman Oral History Interview

Created by:
National Museum of African American History and Culture, American, founded 2003  Search this
Interview of:
Marian Wright Edelman, American, born 1939  Search this
Interviewed by:
Kelly Elaine Navies, American  Search this
Recorded by:
Kim Moir, American  Search this
Subject of:
Poor People's Campaign, American, 1967 - 1968  Search this
Children's Defense Fund, American, founded 1973  Search this
Spelman College, American, founded 1881  Search this
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968  Search this
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American, founded 1909  Search this
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., American, founded 1940  Search this
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, American, 1960 - 1970s  Search this
Robert Parris Moses, American, 1935 - 2021  Search this
Medgar Evers, American, 1925 - 1963  Search this
Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964  Search this
Senator Robert F. Kennedy, American, 1925 - 1968  Search this
Rev. William Joseph Barber II, American, born 1963  Search this
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, American, founded 1964  Search this
Child Development Group of Mississippi, American, founded 1965  Search this
Medium:
digital
Dimensions:
Duration: 01:59:50
35.53 GB
Type:
video recordings
oral histories
digital media - born digital
Place collected:
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
Bennettsville, Marlboro County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
Marks, Quitman County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
Date:
September 8, 2017
Topic:
African American  Search this
Activism  Search this
Civil Rights  Search this
Humanitarianism  Search this
Justice  Search this
Labor  Search this
Politics  Search this
Poverty  Search this
Race relations  Search this
U.S. History, 1961-1969  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Object number:
2018.78.4.1
Restrictions & Rights:
© Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
See more items in:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Collection title:
Poor People’s Campaign Oral Histories
Classification:
Media Arts-Film and Video
Movement:
Civil Rights Movement
African American - Latinx Solidarity
Poor People's Campaign
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5331fb890-bb92-4204-bc51-b2ecbc722b7d
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2018.78.4.1

Oliver W. Hill, Jr. Oral History Interview

Created by:
Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009  Search this
Interview of:
Dr. Oliver White Hill Jr., American, born 1949  Search this
Interviewed by:
David P. Cline Ph. D., American, born 1969  Search this
Subject of:
Oliver White Hill Sr., American, 1907 - 2007  Search this
Howard University, American, founded 1867  Search this
Thurgood Marshall, American, 1908 - 1993  Search this
Charles Hamilton Houston, American, 1895 - 1951  Search this
NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc., American, founded 1940  Search this
Virginia State University, American, founded 1882  Search this
Robert Parris Moses, American, 1935 - 2021  Search this
Algebra Project, American, founded 1982  Search this
Medium:
digital
Dimensions:
Duration: 1 hr., 13 min., 30 sec.
Total: 118.04 GB
Type:
video recordings
oral histories
digital media - born digital
Place collected:
Petersburg, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Place depicted:
Roanoke, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Richmond, Virginia, United States, North and Central America
Date:
August 17, 2013
Topic:
African American  Search this
Activism  Search this
American South  Search this
Associations and institutions  Search this
Children  Search this
Civil Rights  Search this
Education  Search this
HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)  Search this
Law  Search this
Political organizations  Search this
Segregation  Search this
Social reform  Search this
U.S. History, 1919-1933  Search this
U.S. History, 1969-2001  Search this
Credit Line:
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Object number:
2011.174.102.1a-e
Restrictions & Rights:
© Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
See more items in:
National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
Collection title:
Civil Rights History Project
Classification:
Media Arts-Film and Video
Movement:
Civil Rights Movement
Data Source:
National Museum of African American History and Culture
GUID:
http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd5547f2f49-dc55-4370-8bd8-e63f7be34a24
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:nmaahc_2011.174.102.1a-e

And gently he shall lead them : Robert Parris Moses and civil rights in Mississippi / Eric Burner

Author:
Burner, Eric  Search this
Subject:
Moses, Robert Parris  Search this
Physical description:
xii, 294 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 22 cm
Type:
Biography
Place:
Mississippi
Date:
1994
C1994
20th century
Topic:
Civil rights workers  Search this
African Americans  Search this
African Americans--Civil rights  Search this
Civil rights movements--History  Search this
Race relations  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_491409

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