Oral history with Winston Fairley transcript; 2012

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Oral history with Winston Fairley transcript; 2012

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Description: Oral history.; Transcript of interview conducted November 1 and November 14, 2012 with Rebecca Zimmer and Hayden McDaniel in Gulfport, Mississippi at the Richard Cox Library on the Gulf Park Campus of the University of Southern Mississippi. Winston Fairley, a retired master sergeant with the United States Air Force, describes accompanying his parents in their activist work during the civil rights movement. He was a student at Hawkins Junior High School in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, when that school was integrated. He discusses the pressure he felt as a young African American in a predominately white school and the "bubble" of protection provided in the Air Force. He also discusses the deaths of Martin Luther King Jr. and Vernon Dahmer, integration of businesses in Mississippi, Freedom Summer, and the Freedom Riders.

Creator: Fairley, Winston; McDaniel, Hayden; Zimmer, Rebecca

Date: 2012-11-01; 2012-11-14

Format: Digital reproduction of a 57-page transcript.

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Collection: Mississippi Civil Rights Museum.

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Source: F341.5 .M57 vol. 1137

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