Research Catalog

Title

Child Development Group of Mississippi audio collection.

Author

Child Development Group of Mississippi, creator.

Publication

[1971]

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid for the collection

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Details

Additional Authors

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Description

10 audiotape reels

Summary

The collection contains ten audio recordings dating from circa 1964 to 1971.

Subjects

• Sound recordings
• Mississippi > Social conditions
• African Americans > Civil rights > Mississippi
• Segregation in education > United States
• Segregation in education > Mississippi
• Head Start Program > Mississippi
• Children with social disabilities > Education (Preschool) > Mississippi
• Education, Preschool > Mississippi
• Education, Preschool > United States
• African American students > Mississippi
• African Americans > Education (Preschool) > Mississippi
• Children > United States
• African American children > Mississippi
• United States > Office of Economic Opportunity
• Friend of Children of Mississippi
• Child Development Group of Mississippi
• Project Head Start (U.S.)

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

• The Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) was a community action group that developed a Head Start program for low income, primarily black, pre-school children. The CDGM Head Start program evolved from a meeting called by Dr. Tom Levin, a civil rights activist, with five other social scientists and professionals, which was held in New York City on March 11, 1965. Levin was the first director of the CDGM's Head Start program which, in its heyday, operated eighty-seven centers throughout Mississippi with an enrollment of 6,000 children and a staff of 3,000 adults. The CDGM received one of the largest grants in the country from the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) to begin operation. Within months it became the OEO's most controversial Head Start program. It faced opposition from the Klu Klux Klan, the local press and some members of the black community. In addition, charges of mismanagement were leveled at the organization. In September, less than six months from the time they were funded, CDGM's funds were withdrawn by the OEO. With the aid of a newly formed support group, the Friends of Children of Mississippi (FCM), the CDGM operated without government funding during the winter of 1965-1966. After a congressional investigation, organizational and personnel changes, the OEO provided $5.5 million dollars for a full year's operation in fourteen out of the nineteen countries in the state. In October 1967 the OEO withdrew all funding to Head Start programs in Mississippi counties operating under the mantle of the CDGM.

Linking Entry (note)

• See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for theChild Development Group of Mississippi collection, 1965-1971. (Sc MG 265). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Artifact can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division.

Call Number

Sc MIRS Child 1988-57

OCLC

1192966476

Author

Child Development Group of Mississippi, creator.

Title

Child Development Group of Mississippi audio collection.

Publisher

[1971]

Linking Entry

See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for theChild Development Group of Mississippi collection, 1965-1971. (Sc MG 265). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Artifact can be found in the Art and Artifacts Division.

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Finding Aid for the collection

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Added Author

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research Call Number

Sc MIRS Child 1988-57