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An Oral History with Ms. Zoya Zeman
This oral history is provided through a cooperative project of USM Libraries and USM's Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage It is presented here for reference purposes only. Interviews in this collection are protected by copyright and PERMISSION TO PUBLISH MUST BE REQUESTED from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. Please call ( 601) 266- 4574 for more information.
Biography
Ms. Zoya Zeman was born June 27, 1943, in Charlottesville, Virginia. Her parents are the late Erwin Zeman and Inez Hansen Zeman. She has three younger brothers. She was raised in Virginia, Utah, and Nebraska. She attributes her interest in doing civil rights work to her inner self and to her the fact that her parents were compassionate and raised their children to be nonjudgmental. Zeman's activism at Scripps College in Claremont, California, began when she organized Operation Crossroads Africa, a Peace Corps- like summer project. During her junior year of college, she saw a pamphlet on the Mississippi Summer Project, and after meeting Bob Moses, she was determined to participate in the project. She attended the training session at Oxford and was assigned to work in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and doing health education and literacy work. After Freedom Summer, Zeman returned to finish college and to do graduate studies in social work. She has worked as a social worker, and she has been active in Friends of SNCC, the Medical Committee for Human Rights, and the anti- Vietnam movement.
Transcript
This is an interview for the Mississippi Oral History Program of The University of Southern Mississippi. The interview is with Ms. Zoya Zeman and is taking place by telephone on April, 18, 1996. The interviewer is John Rachal. Rachal: Hello, Zoya? Zeman: Uh- huh. Rachal: This is John Rachal, how are you? Zeman: Hi John, fine thank you. Rachal: OK, very nice to hear your voice again, and I very much appreciate your consenting to do this interview. As you know the interview is being taped and eventually, sometime in the next year or so, you will be receiving a transcript of it. Well, let me begin by asking you a couple of fundamentally
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Object Description
| Title | Oral history with Ms. Zoya Zeman |
| Description | Oral history.; Interview conducted on April 18, 1996 with Zoya Zeman (born 1943). Ms. Zeman was a civil rights activist who worked on the Mississippi Summer Project in Clarksdale, where she worked at the community center, organizing classes and doing health education and literacy work. |
| Date of interview | 18 April 1996 |
| Interviewer | Rachal, John, 1948- |
| Coverage (time period) | 1963-1964 |
| Resource type | Text |
| Format | Digital reproduction of a 33-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 to the University of Southern Mississippi. |
| 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 | 280.244 KB |
| File extension | |
| Identifier | mus-coh.zemanz |
| File name | mus-coh.zemanz.pdf |
