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Oral history.; Mrs. Clara Griffin Watson was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on October 15, 1933. 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. Mrs. Watson is married to Leon B. Watson. They have thirteen children of their own, including Angela Sartin, who conducted this interview.

Oral history.; Bishop Joseph Howze was born August 30, 1923, in Daphne, Baldwin County, Alabama. He attended all-black, segregated schools, and he graduated from high school in Mobile, Alabama. Bishop Howze was a teacher in public and Catholic high schools and later went into seminary at St. Bonaventure University in New York. In 1959, Bishop Howze was ordained in the diocese of Raleigh, North Carolina, and he was appointed pastor of St. Anthony's, which was an all-black church in Asheville, North Carolina. From that church, Bishop Howze was appointed to become auxiliary bishop in Mississippi, coming to Jackson in 1972, and being ordained for it in 1973. He is the first bishop of the diocese of Biloxi; he is the recipient of a number of honorary college degrees for years of service. On several occasions, Bishop Howze has met with Pope John Paul II, reporting to him on different aspects of the Catholic Church in the United States.