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David L. Jordan Interview, August 26, 2017

 

Summary

Extent:
10.6 Gigabytes Six MTS files
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

David L. Jordan Interview, MSS 2018-005, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2018-005

Background

Scope and content:

Six video recordings documenting Justyn Bell's interview with Mississippi State Senator David Jordan near the Sumner, Mississippi courthouse, including discussion of Emmett Till.

https://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/islandora/object/fsu:tilljordaninterview

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Biographical / historical:

Mississippi State Senator David L. Jordan grew up in Leflore County, Mississippi. He was born in 1934, the youngest of five children born to sharecropper parents. Jordan attended the University of Wyoming and Mississippi Valley State University. His monograph David L. Jordan: From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate: A Memoir was published in 2014.

Source: David L. Jordan. Mississippi Writers & Musicians. https://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/mississippi-writers/david-l-jordan

Justyn Bell was born on April 30, 1992 in Atlanta, Georgia. He is best known for his motion picture directorial work in Mississippi Whistle (2018), Walking (2016), and Someone Get Sam (2013).

Source: Justyn Bell Biography. Internet Movie Database. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6196149/bio

Acquisition information:
Justyn Bell, by Deed of Gift, February 2018
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Indexed terms

Names:
Till, Emmett, 1941-1955

Access and use

Restrictions:

This collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Copyrights in works in this collection are held by Justyn Bell. Any user may copy, distribute, adapt, display, or broadcast them for noncommercial use without restriction. Further use or copying of these works beyond noncommercial use or Fair Use may require permission from the rights-holder.

Preferred citation:

David L. Jordan Interview, MSS 2018-005, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. http://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-2018-005

Location of this collection:
116 Honors Way
Tallahassee
FL
32306-2047
USA