Interviews with people involved in the desegregation of the Hoxie Arkansas schools in 1955. This is a subset of the Hill Foundation Collection.

These are select objects from the Hill Foundation's collection related to the desegregation of Hoxie, Arkansas schools in 1955.

This collection contains all the interviews in the Crossroads archive.

White moderates in Memphis began in the late 50's and early 60's to prepare for changes that they suspected were inevitable. In 1958, Mayor Edmond Orgill established the Memphis Committee on Human Relations and appointed leading citizens to it, both black and white. Someone suggested that anyone working with the NAACP should not be a part of the committee. Admitting blacks to the major professional theatre in the city proved to be more difficult than allowing blacks to sit with whites at wrestling matches.

The hearings before the United States Commission on Civil Rights took place on June 25-26, 1962 in Memphis, Tennessee.

Documents provided by Judge Russell B. Sugarmon, Memphis civil rights lawyer and activist.

Includes Robert Benham, George Hunt, Arilla Miller, Mark Stansbury, Dorothy "Happy" Jones, Anne Shafer, Benjamin & Frances Hooks, Onzie Horne, Lewis Donelson, James Earl Netters, A.C. Wharton, Fred Davis, Reginald Howard, Jocelyn Wurzburg, Jane Walters

Interviews with people in some way connected to music, and who discuss the importance of musicians and the music industry to the struggle for civil rights.

These audio interviews were conducted in November 2007 on the Rhodes College campus by StoryCorps as part of their Griot initiative, and are included in Crossroads with the permission of StoryCorps (www.storycorps.net).

Articles from the Memphis World: January 27, 1950. Note that each article/photo is a separate item, with the image for the page on which it appears.