This document summarizes projects and funding from the Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage at the University of Southern Mississippi, including funding received from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. It lists key personnel involved in digitization efforts of oral histories and local collections, including the coordination of various library and graduate student teams. Samples and links are provided to digital collections available through the funding, such as the Civil Rights oral histories and a documentary by Hayden McDaniel.

1. Dr. Jeanne Gillespie
Collaborative Frameworks
Professor of Foreign Languages
jeanne.gillespie@usm.edu

2. The Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
funding from
The University of Southern Mississippi and the Mississippi
Humanities Council
Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
COHCH Landing Page
Mississippi Moments (Ross Walton, Producer)

3. Funding for Preservation, Access, and Dissemination of Local
Collections
IMLS Funding (Partners with NEH)
http://digilib.usm.edu/crmda.php (Grant by Diane Ross
and Steven Sloane)

4. Samples from the IMLS Portal
Civil Rights Oral Histories

5. Civil Rights Project funded through the National Endowment
for the Humanities
Behind the scenes!!
Diane Ross, coordinating communication between COHCH and library personnel
Ross Walton, digitizing cassette tapes and other audio
Hayden McDaniel, Stephanie Millet DeArmy, Olivia Moore, and a corps of graduate students
digitizing and formating the transcribed texts and creating audio logs for the audio files
Elizabeth LeBeaud and the University Libraries Digitization Lab processing the files for cataloging
Debra Gurt in Cataloging
Documentary by Hayden McDaniel
Blog from NEH Materials

6. Samples from the NEH
“It astounded me when I really began to understand the depth of racial
intolerance in Mississippi. I was shocked. I didn’t think that nice folks
could be so full of hate. I believe it’s fear to start with, and hate too. Fear
comes first and hate comes close afterwards.”–Buford Posey, interview
with Wesley French, 2007 (from Olivia Moore’s blog)
Lawrence Guyot Interview with photo
(NEH Grant Kyriakoudes/Gillespie with Diane Ross and Hayden McDaniel)