The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.

11/11/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.202

Social activist and family practitioner Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr. (1928 - 2006 ) worked as a physician in Mississippi for over forty years, and led a nonviolent protest against the “whites only” section of a federally maintained Gulf Coast beach, which resulted in a successful and historic first federal anti-discrimination lawsuit against the state of Mississippi. Mason and local activists also won the first school desegregation lawsuit in the history of Mississippi. Mason was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/11/2002, in Biloxi, Mississippi. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 24m 41s

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Mason, Gilbert R. 1928-

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Gilbert Mason was raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He earned a bachelor's degree from Tennessee State College in 1950 and a medical degree frm Howard University in 1954 before opening a practice in Biloxi, Mississippi. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dr. Mason led several wade-ins to desegregate Mississippi's Gulf Coast beaches; he also participated in a lawsuit to integrate Biloxi public schools. He has held numerous local and state-level offices in the NAACP, and remains active in civic affa...