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Oral history with Reverend Clinton Collier
This oral history is provided through a cooperative project of University of Southern Mississippi Libraries and USM's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
Funding provided by a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services
The transcript is presented here for reference purposes only. Interviews in this collection are protected by copyright. PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. Please call ( 601) 266- 4574 for more information.
Biography
Rev. Clinton Collier was born August 24, 1909, in Laurelhill, Mississippi, a community fifteen miles west of Philadelphia. He was the third of thirteen children born to John and Lena Collier.
Growing up, Reverend Collier worked on his family's farm and was able to attend the local one- teacher, segregated school only about four months out of each year. His schooling continued intermittently through the sixth grade. He left home in 1926 to attend Tougaloo College Elementary School for two years. Then, he attended Alcorn High School at Alcorn College and graduated in 1934.
For three years, Reverend Collier taught at a rural school. He decided to go back to college, but was drafted into the military in 1942. He served during World War II and was discharged in 1945. After his military service, he went back to college and graduated from Alcorn.
Reverend Collier taught in Neshoba and Leake Counties. He was forced to leave teaching after he was blacklisted by the state administration for his active participation in the civil rights movement.
Reverend Collier is a minister in the United Methodist church. He retired in 1985.
Table of Contents
I. Background
II. Blacklisted
III. Governors and activists
IV. Philadelphia murders
V. " Money bought us out"
VI. Before and after the murders
VII. Investigation, arrests and the trial
VIII. Sovereignty Commission: spying and intimidation
IX. Confronting Cecil Price
X. Lessons of the civil rights movement
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Object Description
| Title | Oral history with Reverend Clinton Collier |
| Description | Oral history.; Interview conducted on July 28, 1981 with Reverend Clinton Collier at the Methodist Church in Morton, Mississippi. Collier was born on August 24, 1909 in rural Neshoba County. After completing the eighth grade, which was as high as Black schools taught at that time, he went to Tougaloo College. The depression interrupted Collier's education and his teaching career began. He taught in Mississippi until 1940, and then moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked until he was drafted into the Navy in 1942. After two years of service, Collier went back to Washington, D.C. and then on to Detroit until returning to Mississippi in 1956. He returned to public school teaching and entered the United Methodist ministry. During the late 1950s and the 1960s Collier was closely associated with leaders of the civil rights movement and was very active on the state and local level. |
| Date of interview | 25 June 1994 |
| Interviewer | Faulkner, Leesha. |
| Coverage (time period) | 1909-1994 (primarily 1960s and 1970s) |
| Resource type | Text |
| Format | Digital reproduction of a 28-page document. |
| Language | English |
| Publisher |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Contributors | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. |
| Notes | This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. |
| Rights | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |
| Contributing institution | Mississippi Oral History Program of the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| Digital repository | University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. |
| Digital collection | Oral History. |
| File size | 312.473 KB |
| File extension | |
| Identifier | mus-coh.collierc2 |
| File name | mus-coh.collierc2.pdf |
