{"id":190,"date":"2009-09-14T10:13:59","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:13:59","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:13:59","slug":"wilson-mr-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/wilson-mr-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson, Mr. Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Mr. Mayo Wilson<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/files\/2010\/02\/Wilson-Mayo-11-3-2008-interview-transcript.pdf\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Click here to download the transcript of this interview.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Education, Head Start, Comparison of Jim Crown and Apartheid<\/p>\n<p>Da<span style=\"color: #000000\">te: 3  November, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Mr Mayo Wilson<\/p>\n<p>Interviewer: Tiffany Mane<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mayo Wilson was born in 1931 in Cary, Mississippi.\u00a0 He studied at Tougaloo College and Jackson State University.\u00a0 Throughout his career he has been variously a math and chemistry teacher at Coahoma Community College, a banker for the Bank of Clarkesdale, and currently, the executive director of Coahoma Opportunities Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wilson provides a life history, and discusses segregation in education, farming, and the Mississippi state flag.\u00a0 He offers a detailed perspective into the mission and programming of the Head Start program, as well as its umbrella organization, Coahoma Opportunities Inc.. \u00a0Mr. Wilson contrasts the roles of blues and gospel music in black experience, and compares Jim Crow racism with the South African apartheid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Mr. Mayo Wilson Click here to download the transcript of this interview. General Topic of Interview: Education, Head Start, Comparison of Jim Crown and Apartheid Date: 3 November, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Mr Mayo Wilson Interviewer: Tiffany Mane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}