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An Oral History with Mr. Rims Barber
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
In 1964 Mr. Rims Barber was a twenty- seven- year- old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request from the Commission on Religion and Race of the National Council of Churches for volunteers to help with Freedom Summer. As a white man, he says, he came to broaden " support for what people were doing" in Mississippi. He stayed in the homes of local residents in Canton and engaged in door- to- door canvassing, talking to people about voter registration.
Transcript
This is an interview for the Mississippi Oral History Program of The University of Southern Mississippi. The interview is with Mr. Rims Barber and is taking place on July 5, 1995. The interviewer is John Rachal. Rachal: This is an interview conducted with Mr. Rims Barber conducted by John Rachal on July 5, 1995. Barber: Can I get you a cup of coffee? Rachal: No, I'm fine, thank you. You're my first interview so as a consequence I'll probably be-- Barber: -- be really polished. Rachal: Right. I'll have it down to a fine art, I'm sure. First question is a very general sort of question. It might have a fairly involved answer so give it as short or as long as you wish. What was your role in Freedom Summer? Barber: That's-- I came as a support person just to do whatever the local folks directed us to do. It was an initiation, it was a learning process. I guess-- I was a Presbyterian minister at the time and I was white. So I guess some sense it was looking for broadening the support for what local people were doing down here. So a lot of it was what was kind of a message would we take back to the rest of the word? But in terms of [ the] time I was down here that summer, we stayed with local people in their homes, went out and knocked on doors, and talked to people about voter registration. That's I guess the most I recall of
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Object Description
| Title | Oral history with Mr. Rims Barber (1995) |
| Description | Oral history.; An interview conducted on July 5, 1995 with Mr. Rims Barber (born 1936). In 1964, he was a twenty-seven-year-old Presbyterian minister in Davenport, Iowa. He came to Mississippi in response to a request for volunteers to help with Freedom Summer from the National Council of Churches Commission on Religion and Race. As a white man, he says, he came to broaden "support for what people were doing" in Mississippi. He stayed in the homes of local residents in Canton and engaged in door-to-door canvassing, talking to people about voter registration. |
| Date of interview | 5 July 1995 |
| Interviewer | Rachal, John, 1948- |
| Coverage (time period) | 1937-1995 (primarily 1964, 1965, and the early 1970s) |
| Resource type | Text |
| Format | Digital reproduction of a 9-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 | 192.937 KB |
| File extension | |
| Identifier | mus-coh.barberr |
| File name | mus-coh.barberr.pdf |
