Mississippi Agriculture Oral History Collection, 2016

Summary

Creator:

Williams, Brian

Date:

2016

Extent:

22 interview(s)

Language:

English

Preferred citation:

Mississippi Agriculture Oral History Collection, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.

Background

Scope and content:

The Mississippi Agriculture Oral History Collection is comprised of interviews whose research focus is on the environmental, social, and technological aspects of agricultural change in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. Interviews were conducted with a variety of subjects, including large-scale and small-scale farmers, former agricultural workers, civil rights activists, extension agents, and agro-industrial sector workers, documenting their experience of the agricultural industrialization process during the mid to late twentieth century.

Biographical / historical:

The Mississippi Agriculture Oral History Collection was donated to the Russell Library in 2017 by Brian Williams, a doctoral candidate in the Geography Department at the University of Georgia. All interviews were conducted by Williams as primary source research, spanning across various states in the southeastern United States, including Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Processing information:

Original media for this collection include digital audio files.

Related

Other finding aids:

The Russell Library does not make a claim as to the veracity of the information presented in these interviews. Each interview is a single first-person account situated within specific social, political, and economic contexts in history.

Indexed terms

Subjects:

Agricultural laws and legislation
Agriculture -- Mississippi
Agricultural industries -- Mississippi
Agricultural industries -- Georgia

Terms of access:

Resources may be used under the guidelines described by the U.S. Copyright Office in Section 107, Title 17, United States Code (Fair use). Parties interested in production or commercial use of the resources should contact the Russell Library for a fee schedule.

Preferred citation:

Mississippi Agriculture Oral History Collection, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.