The Oral History collection at Ricks Library consists of audio and audio transcripts featuring people who lived in the Yazoo County area during the 20th century.

Click the titles to read the oral history transcripts, or to download the transcripts.

Oral History – Audio (Coming Soon)

 

 

Oral History – Transcripts

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Allen, Barbara – Yazoo Folklore

Allgood, Sr., Mrs. W. E – General Yazoo Recollections

Allgood, Sr., Mrs. W. E. – Civil War Days

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Bailey, Amanda Cary – Life in Yazoo County 1940s and 1950s

Balsley, Dr. Daisy – Her father Dr. Robert Fullilove of Afro-American Hospital

Robert Bowman – People & Life in Yazoo County

Mary Brabston – Yazoo Recollections

William Bradford Energy – efficient home

R.J. Brown –  Commercial Fisherman

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Thomas H. Campbell – Law Practice Afro-American Hospital

Carter, Mississippi History- Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Jordan

Louie Andrew Cary  –Yazoo County in the early 1900s

Minnie Brister Clark – Life in Yazoo County 1920s-1930s

Jerry Clower – Storytelling

Mrs. Ray Cobb –Yazoo Recollections

Fred Corley – Yazoo Alderman 1970s

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Clayton Davis  – Life in Yazoo County 1940s

George and Jessie Davis – Yazoo Recollections

Grady Davis – Life in Yazoo County 1930s

Laura B. Davis –Yazoo Recollections

Herman B. DeCell –Yazoo  Lawyers- January 1980

Herman B. DeCell – Yazoo Law Practice- February 1980

Herman B. DeCell – on John Oakes- September 1974

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Charles H. Estes, Sr. – Life in Yazoo after 1900

Charles M. Estes, Jr. – Yazoo Recollections

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Mrs. H. L. Fennel  –  Biographical Material

Mrs. W. H. Ferguson – Yazoo Recollections

Mable Oneal Ferris – Yazoo Recollections

Fuller, Albert- Recollections of Phoenix, MS in the early 1900s (Interview Date: November 13, 1974)

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Leola Galloway – Afro-American Hospital

Magnolia Turnbow Gates – Yazoo Recollections #1

Magnolia Turnbow Gates – Yazoo Recollections #2

Mrs. L.L. Geralds – Yazoo Recollections

Gibbs School Students – Transcript #1

Gibbs School Students – Transcript #2

Mrs. Elaine Goods – Yazoo Recollections

Daisy Greene and Mary Louise Miller – Discussing Dr. L. T. Miller (See “Mary Louise Miller and Daisy Greene – Discussing Dr. L. T. Miller”)

Jewell Nolan Guion – Life in Yazoo County 1930s 1940s

T.C. Guion –  Life in Yazoo County 1910s-1940s

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P.C. Harbin – Life in Holly Bluff 1910-1920

Greg Harkins – Chairmaking

Julia Houck Hartley – Yazoo County after 1900

Lindy Hathcock – Yazoo County 1960s

Hawk, “Hammer” – Discusses Yazoo City after 1900 (Interview Date: September 1974)

Jessie P. Hearn –  CHURCHES Yazoo City and Greenville

Hinshaw, Barbara Morgan and Robert Hinshaw – Drug Stores in Yazoo (Interview Date:Feb 1974)

Miller Holmes, Sr. – Banking

Huddleston, Jr., T.J. and Mrs. Henry [Willie Jean] Espy – Afro-American Hospital-March 1980

Margaret Humphreys – St. Clara Academy

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Honor Ingram – Old buildings in Yazoo City Recollections after 1900

Dave Irwin  –  Yazoo Recollections

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Kelly Jackson – Yazoo Recollections

Kelly Jackson – Slave Life of Father

Christine Fouche Johnson – Yazoo County-1920s-1930s

Clara Johnson – Yazoo City After 1900

Floyd Johnson – Life in Yazoo County

Maybelle Johnson – Potatoes Molasses bread and other recipes

M.D. Jones – Yazoo County 1920s-1930s

Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Jordan- Discuss the history of Carter, MS (See “Carter, Mississippi History- Mr. & Mrs. E.T. Jordan”)

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Mrs. Curtis Ketchum – Yazoo Recollections

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Sister Leota – St. Francis Catholic School

Willeva Lindsey – Afro-American Hospital

Mary Bradshaw Luckett  – Yazoo Recollections

Lynch, Albert – Recollections of Yazoo City in the early 1900s (Interview Date: September 1974)

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Main Street Panel – Discussion

Mrs. W.W.Marshall – Yazoo Recollections 1930s

Hugh Mcgraw – Yazoo Recollections

Mrs. Teresa Mcgraw – Family background

Mary Louise Miller – Yazoo  Recollections

Mary Louise Miller and Daisy Greene – Discussing Dr. L. T. Miller

Mrs. J.M. Myers – Biographical Material

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Eunice Nelson – Afro-American Hospital

Soloman T. Nicholas, Sr. – Family experiences after 1904

S.T. Nicholas, Jr. – Yazoo City 1920s-1930s

Mrs. Daisy L. Nolan – Yazoo County Early 1900s

Kermit Nolan – Yazoo Experiences 1930s-1940s

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Hubert Owens – Afro-American Hospital

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Mrs. J.W. Parker – Concert Series in Yazoo City

Evie Louise Pepper – Yazoo County Birds

Ivy Pepper – Personal Experiences

Meadow Perry Jr. with Marguerite Riley – Yazoo Recollections

Dewitt Peyton – Yazoo Recollections

Mrs. Burdette Pollard – Yazoo Recollections

Gene Powell – Writings of Interviewee

Jo G. Prichard III  – Discusses John Oakes

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Riley, Marguerite (See Meadow Perry, Jr with Marguerite Riley- Yazoo Recollections)

E.B.Roberts – Life in Yazoo County

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Joy Hearn Sartain – Yazoo Recollections

J.P. Sartain – Yazoo Recollections

Sadie Setzler – Quilting

F.W. Sharbrough – Holly Bluff

George Sigrest – Dulcimer-Making & Knife-Making

Jack Sloan – Yazoo Recollections

Mr. & Mrs. M.M. Smith – Views on Yazoo City

Winnie Jean Stanton – Life on Ridge Road 1940s

Laurie Lightcap Stigler – Methodist Church-1904 Fire

Gene Stonestreet – Yazoo Recollections

Emma Lee Stubblefield – Early Life in Yazoo City

Mary Swayze – First Baptist Church

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E.F. Thigpen – Bentonia

Robert &  Bobbie Towery – Toymaking

Transcripts without tapes – A list for the Bicentenial Project

Mary Tuck – On Slavery in the U.S.

Eugene &  Joan Turner – Views of Yazoo City

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Cyril A. Walwyn – Afro-American Hospital

Will Washington – Yazoo Recollections

Mrs. Niceine Weber – Yazoo Recollections

Mrs. James Whatley – Views of Yazoo City

White, Barbara – Views of Yazoo City (Interview Date: Sep 1974)

Mrs. Louis A. White – Family Background

Flemming Whitney, Jr. – Life in Yazoo City

Jim Wigley – Yazoo Recollections

Mrs. Willie Davis Wilkerson- Descendant of large landowners who were former Yazoo County slaves

Mrs. John G. Williams – Yazoo City early 1900s

Wilson, Charity – Quilting-February 1974

Tampa Wilson – Basket Making

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Yates, Joy- Recalls her family background

 

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