McAtee/Marion County Civil Rights Oral History Collection

Collection

Identifier: M649

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Oral histories related to the Civil Rights Movement in Marion County, Mississippi. The audio was recorded for the donor’s book titled Dared to Differ: Learning to Live Together in Turbulent Times.

Dates

Creation: Interviews taped in 2009; content circa 1960’s

Creator

McAtee, William G. (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Noncirculating; available for research.

Conditions Governing Use

This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code).

Biographical / Historical

William “Bill” G. McAtee was a Presbyterian minister at Amory and Columbia, Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s. When he was appointed at the Columbia Presbyterian Church in May 1964, McAtee joined an interracial group of local ministers who worked to make public institutions and facilities available for all citizens, as required by the 1964 Civil Rights Act. McAtee visited the SNCC-NCC training site in Oxford, Ohio on June 25, 1964, where he was given a curriculum for Freedom Schools. In ca. 1971, McAtee started ministering at the Transylvania Presbytery in Lexington, Kentucky, from which he retired in in 1997. He has taught at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, the McCormick Presbyterian Seminary, and the Lexington Theological Seminary. His books include:

Dreams, Where Have You Gone?: Clues for Unity and Hope

Transformed: a White Mississippi Pastor's Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond

Extent

6 Cassettes

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Audio interviews related to the Civil Rights Movement in Marion County, Mississippi.

Arrangement

The audio is related to the Civil Rights Movement in Marion County, Mississippi. Content will be used in donor’s book titled Dared to Differ: Learning to Live Together in Turbulent Times.

Cassette tapes:

1. Tape #1 – Grupper-McAtee-CRM Columbia, MS 1-19-09

2. Tape #2 – Grupper-McAtee-CRM Columbia, MS 2-10-09

3. Tape #3 – Bush-McAtee-CRM Columbia, MS 2-14-09

4. Tape #4 – Foxworth-McAtee interview Columbia, MS 2-16-09

5. Tape #6 – Grupper-Watts-McAtee-CRM Columbia, MS 2-28-09

6. Tape #7 – Grupper-McAtee-CRM Columbia, MS 4-7-09

[THERE IS NO #5]

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by William (Bill) G. McAtee on December 14, 2009.

Related Materials

Transformed: a White Mississippi Pastor's Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond by William G. McAtee, 2011. Available in McCain and Gulf Coast Library, F349.C69 M43 2011

AM09-27, Ira Grupper Papers

M555, Ira Grupper and Bob Beech Civil Rights Collection

M581 William “Bill” G. McAtee Civil Rights Collection