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Mississippi Freedom Project

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. Upcoming MFP Trips: MFP 2023: In July […]

Welcome to Reanimating African American Histories of the Gulf South

Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP), UF Department of Linguistics, and George A. Smathers Libraries are proud to announce the establishment of an NEH-funded collaborative project entitled, Reanimating African American Oral Histories of the Gulf South (RGS). The project’s foundation is the Joel Buchanan African American Oral History Archive, which is ongoing and currently contains over 1000 […]