Oral history interview with Hellen O'Neal McCray, 2001.

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Oral history interview with Hellen O'Neal McCray, 2001.

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In the summer of 1961, the Freedom Riders, a group of mostly young people, both black and white, including Hellen O'Neal McCray, risked their lives to challenge the system of segregation in interstate travel in the South. The University of Mississippi's Freedom riders oral history project includes interviews recorded in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of that summer.

Videorecording: 1 videodisc (24 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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University of Mississippi. William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation.

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University of Mississippi. Division of Outreach and Continuing Education.

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University of Mississippi. Center for the Study of Southern Culture

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McCray, Hellen O'Neal,

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Civil rights volunteer, Hellen Jean O'Neal-McCray was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi on March 4, 1941 to Willie Long Anderson and Lester Calvin O'Neal. She attended Immaculate Conception School, Myrtle Hall Colored School and Holy Rosary School in Lafayette, Louisiana. Keeping up with current events, O'Neal-McCray knew activist druggist "Doc" Aaron Henry and read theChicago Defender. A member of the school band, she graduated from W.A. Higgins High School in Clarksdale in 1959.In 1961, O'Neal-M...