Oral history with Jim Abbott; 1998

Oral history.; Recording log for interview conducted March 22, 1998. Jim Abbott documents the struggle over approval for funding for a Vocational Technology Center in Indianola and the controversy that erupted between the community and the school board. Abbott was the publisher of a weekly newspaper in Indianola, the Enterprise-tocsin. It is likely that this oral history was collected as research for the interviewer's book, Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.

Oral history.; Interview conducted March 22, 1998. Jim Abbott documents the struggle over approval for funding for a Vocational Technology Center in Indianola and the controversy that erupted between the community and the school board. Abbott was the publisher of a weekly newspaper in Indianola, the Enterprise-tocsin. It is likely that this oral history was collected as research for the interviewer's book, Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.