Mississippi Moments Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 84:08:51
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Sinopse
These are the stories of our people in their own words. From sharecroppers to governors, the veterans, artists, writers, musicians, leaders, followers, all those who call Mississippi home. Since 1971 we've collected their memories. The technology has changed, but our mission remains the same: to preserve those wonderful stories. Listen to Mississippi Moments Monday through Friday. at 12:30pm on MPB think radio.
Episódios
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MS Moments 12 Musician Jimmie Rogers
31/03/2009 Duração: 04minSister-in-law Elsie McWilliams remembers the legendary father of country music, Jimmie Rogers.
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MS Moments 27 Comedian Jerry Clower
31/03/2009 Duração: 04minComedian Jerry Clower muses about growing up in rural Mississippi and entering show business.
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MS Moments 162 Vietnamese American "Children of the Dust"
31/03/2009 Duração: 04minVietnamese American Dat Duong relates the difficulties of growing up in Vietnam as a mixed-race child of the enemy.
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MS Moments 138 SNCC [Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]
31/03/2009 Duração: 04minSandra Adickes, Unita Blackwell, and Fannie Lou Hamer relate their experiences forging a new path as civil rights activists for SNCC in Mississippi.
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MS Moments 147 The Hobo Experience
31/03/2009 Duração: 04minClem Maples and William Redd share their experiences during the Great Depression when jobless men nicknamed "hoboes" rode the rails in search of work.
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MS Moments 1 Gulf Coast Gambling
30/03/2009 Duração: 04minGulf Coast residents Vincent Creel, Roland Weeks, and George Schloegel discuss the pros and cons of legalized riverboat gambling.
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MS Moments 25 Teddy Bear Hunting Tale
30/03/2009 Duração: 04minAuthor Minor Ferris Buchanan sheds light on Theodore Roosevelt's famous black bear hunt in the Mississippi Delta.
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MS Moments 11 Freedom Riders
30/03/2009 Duração: 04minFred Clark Sr. describes the experiences of those who attempted to integrate interstate bus travel in 1961. (photo of Mr. Clark)
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MS Moments 18 American POWs
30/03/2009 Duração: 04minWorld War II veteran Lloyd Smith and Vietnam veteran Thomas Collins III remember the brutality of life during captivity.
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MS Moments 23 Emmett Till
30/03/2009 Duração: 04minAmzie Moore and Florence Mars relate the tension in Mississippi in 1955 surrounding the murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till and the subsequent trial.
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MS Moments 170 Lost Boys of Sudan
30/03/2009 Duração: 03minLong Beach resident David bul Garang recalls fleeing war as a young boy in his native Southern Sudan, then immigrating to Mississippi after years in a refugee camp.
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MS Moments 30 James Meredith
26/03/2009 Duração: 05minReflections from Fred Clark, William Joel Blass, and James Meredith himself on testing the laws of integration at Ole Miss in 1962.
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MS Moments 21 School Desegregation
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minReuben Anderson and Ernestine Talbert recall the resistance to school integration in the early 1970s and the challenges it posed for African American students.
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MS Moments 17 Prohibition
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minJimmy Swan, J.P. Coleman, and Thomas McNeese reminisce about Mississippi's prohibition days.
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MS Moments 82 Civil rights activist Medgar Evers
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minCharles Evers, Aaron Henry, and Claude Ramsey remember the courageous life and tragic death of Medgar Evers, first field secretary of the Mississippi NAACP.
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MS Moments 79 Freedom Summer
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minRims Barber, R. Jess Brown, and Aaron Henry recall the Freedom Summer volunteer effort in 1964 to assist African Americans in registering to vote.
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MS Moments 15 World War I
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minVeterans Henry Eason, Jesse Broadus, and Julian Feibelman recall the meager training, gas attacks, and novelty of Europe in the First World War.
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MS Moments 125 World War II Pacific Theater
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minVeterans Julius Chambliss, George Thornton, and Samuel Abbott describe the challenges and horrors of fighting Japanese forces in the Pacific.
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MS Moments 86 Vietnam War
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minVietnam veterans Richard Murchison, John Young, and Thomas Collins III relate their impressions of war as young soldiers in a far away place. (photo of Sergeant John Young in Vietnam, 1967 - on left)
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MS Moments 126 World War II European Theater
26/03/2009 Duração: 04minWorld War II veterans William Pace, Patrick Carr, and Gen. Elmo Bell each recall personal experiences of the war, from the Normandy invasion to the Battle of the Bulge.