Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause
Abstract
Fourteen duplicate video tapes and a copy of the final script for "Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause," No. 3 in the Magnolia Series produced by Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College (MGCCC). The program covers the history of Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi, the home of Jefferson Davis in his later years, which then became a home for old soldiers who fought for the Confederacy, and finally a public memorial to the life of Jefferson Davis and the Jefferson Davis Presidential Library.
The program was written by Charles L. Sullivan, chair of the Social Studies Department at MGCCC-Perkinston Campus. The producer was Winfred Moncrief; video photographers, Winfred Moncrief, Reid Bruce; video editor/director, Doug Mansfield; still production photographers, Tom Czekanski, Russell Hatten, Bob Howie, Richard Marlowe. The program was narrated by David Elliot.
The program lasts approximately 29 minutes.
Dates
- 1991
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).
Extent
1 Cubic Feet : 302A.B15.W1
Language of Materials
English
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Professor Charles L. Sullivan.
- Beauvoir (Biloxi, Miss.). Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Davis, Jefferson, President of the Confederate States of America, 1808-1889
- Documentary films. Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Historical Manuscripts and Photographs Repository
118 College Drive - 5148
Hattiesburg MS 39406-0001
601.266.4345
