Rosie Head Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Head, Rosie M., American
- Interviewed by
- Dittmer, John Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Subject of
- Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, American, founded 1964
- Child Development Group of Mississippi, American, founded 1965
- Date
- March 13, 2013
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 1 hr., 18 min., 74 sec.
- Total: 124.42 GB
- Description
- The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.74.1a, 2011.174.74.1b, 2011.174.74.1c, 2011.174.74.1d, 2011.174.74.1e, 2011.174.74.1f, and 2011.174.74.1g.
- Rosie Head describes her early life in Greenwood, Mississippi, where her family lived and worked on a plantation. She discusses how her parents faced racial discrimination in their work and how they were cheated by the plantation owner and then blacklisted. In 1964, Head joined the Civil Rights Movement in Tchula, Mississippi, where her family had relocated. Head recounts the various ways she was involved in the movement: registering voters, working with Freedom Summer volunteers, helping to establish the Child Development Group of Mississippi, and campaigning for black candidates for political office.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0074
- Place collected
- Tchula, Holmes County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Greenwood, Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Mississippi Freedom Summer
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Children
- Civil rights
- Labor
- Politics
- Race discrimination
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1961-1969
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.74.1a-g
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.