This digital archive makes oral history transcript collections available via the web. The collection contains "... firsthand accounts of well-known African-American figures such as Charles Cobb, Charles Evers, Aaron Henry, and Hollis Watkins, as well as individuals from the rank and file of civil rights workers who helped to change America in the 1950s and 1960s. The collection also includes accounts by moderate whites and leaders of the white opposition. ... The online oral history project is the first phase of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, an effort by the USM Libraries to provide Internet access to historical manuscript collections, photographs, and oral histories associated with race relations in Mississippi."