We will be continuing our Mississippi Freedom Project this Summer to travel to the Mississippi Delta for our annual fieldwork trip July 15th – 22nd. The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of 200+ oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of the Mississippi Delta. The collection centers on activism and organizing in partnership with the Sunflower County Civil Rights Organization in Sunflower, Mississippi. This year, students participating in our fieldwork trip will engage in the following projects:
- Conducting interviews in Gadsden County and Tallahassee
- Conducting interviews with Equal Justice Initiative Staff
- Tour Legacy Museum & Lynching Memorial
- Conducting interviews at the Southern Poverty Law Center
- Day of Service at Colored Cemetery
- Participating in a Civil Rights Panel
For more information about the trip, check out, http://oral.history.ufl.edu/projects/mfp/ or contact the project coordinator, Nicole Yapp, at nyapp@ufl.edu.
Fieldwork Goals:
- Conduct oral history fieldwork with community members and former civil rights activists
- Engage in scholarship about grassroots freedom movements
- Involvement in a public panel
- Participate in service day activities with community organizations