An oral history with Mr. Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr., 1995 Nov. 14. 1996.

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An oral history with Mr. Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr., 1995 Nov. 14. 1996.

Discusses the following topics: Mississippi; civil rights; Eldridge W. Steptoe, Jr.; Amite County; Congress of Racial Equality; Democratic National Convention (1964); FBI; Herbert Lee; Jackson, Miss.; Martin Luther King Jr.; McComb, Miss.; NAACP; Robert Moses; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; Voting Rights Act.; SNCC, COFO, and student workers; the shooting of Herbert Lee; economic coercion and fear.

20 leaves ; 29 cm.

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Steptoe, Eldridge W., 1936-

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Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr. was born in Amite County, Mississippi, in 1936. He witnessed his father's involvement in the McComb movement of the early 1950's and in the establishing of a local chapter of the NAACP in Amite County shortly after the incident. From the description of An oral history with Mr. Eldridge W. Steptoe Jr., 1995 Nov. 14. 1996. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 37871922 ...

Dykes, Jimmy.

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