Our third MFP reflection piece was contributed by Angelica McGee. Click here to access it.
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Our second MFP reflection piece was contributed by Ronan Hart. Click here to access it.
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Our first MFP reflection piece was contributed by Lauren King. Click here to access it.
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SPOHP’s 15th annual Mississippi Freedom Project Fieldwork Trip provided 15 UF students with the opportunity to travel to Holly Springs and Glendora, Mississippi, and Elaine, Arkansas. Our students composed reflection pieces which we will feature on our social media platforms ahead of our MFP Town Hall in September 2022. Stay tuned!
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This year is our 14th annual Mississippi Freedom Project trip where we travel through the Delta region which is the heart of the modern Civil Rights Movement. On this trip, we will continue to help document the legacies of the 1919 Elaine Massacre in Phillips County, Arkansas under the direction of the Elaine Legacy Center […]
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Check out these reflections our students wrote just after their successful and exciting trips doing oral history fieldwork in the Mississippi Delta as part of our Mississippi Freedom Project! The Mississippi Freedom Project (MFP) is an award-winning archive of 200+ oral history interviews conducted with veterans of the civil rights movement and notable residents of […]
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Marcela Murillo and Chad Chavira participated in our 10th Annual Mississippi Freedom Project trip last month. Check out their op-ed, “Effects of Till’s Murder Still Felt Today,” through which they reflect on their experiences in the Mississippi Delta. Co-writing credits to UF students Nicole Yapp and Toni-Lee Maitland: Marcela Murillo and Chad Chavira: Effects of […]
Last fall, the OHA granted the award to the mini-grant partnership between SPOHP and George A. Smathers Libraries for the “Freedom Summer Oral History and Library Curation Project” in 2013-2014.
Taylor wrote for the Summer/Fall 2015 Oral History Review, drawing from the Mississippi Freedom Project to discuss the preservation, commemoration, and rebirth of Mississippi’s Civil Rights Sites.
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Margaret Stroud Block, long time civil rights activist, passed away June 20 in Cleveland, Mississippi, where she was born and raised. She lectured at universities and organizations throughout the U.S., particularly in the eastern part of the country, on civil rights and current education policies.
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