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Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection, 1957, 1973, 1978, Date acquired: December 1, 1978, bulk 1978

 

Summary

Creator:
Ice, Jackson Lee
Abstract:
Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews for project "An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, Florida 1956-1966: Personal Interviews with Key Civil Rights Leaders, Spokesmen, and Participants," prepared by Dr. Jackson Lee Ice for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Religion, Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Supported by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Extent:
2.50 Linear Feet 6 boxes
1.25 Linear Feet 3 boxes
34 items 1 box
32 Cassettes 2 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection, MSS 1990-001, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1990-001

Background

Scope and content:

Sound recordings and transcripts of interviews for project "An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Tallahassee, Florida 1956-1966: Personal Interviews with Key Civil Rights Leaders, Spokesmen, and Participants," prepared by Dr. Jackson Lee Ice for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture and Religion, Department of Religion, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL. Topics include the Tallahassee Bus Boycott of 1956, lunch counter sit-ins, theatre demonstrations, school desegregation, voter registration, and race relations.

Select materials from this collection are available online through FSU Digital Library.

Biographical / historical:

Jackson Lee Ice was born in 1925 in Buffalo, NY. He received his B.A. degree from the University of Pittsburgh and his M. Div. from Colgate-Rochester Divinity School. He received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1955. That same year, Ice became a faculty member in the Florida State University (FSU) Department of Philosophy. As a professor of religion, Ice was interested in the philosophy of religion, contemporary religious thought, and the relationship between religion and art and religion and science. In 1974, he became full professor, serving in that rank until his death in 1991. At the time of his death, Ice was working on a manuscript for a book, Albert Schweitzer: Sketches for a Portrait. It was published by University Press of America in 1994. John Carey, former Chairman of FSU's Department of Religion, described Ice as "one of America's premier Schweitzer scholars."

Acquisition information:
Given by Dr. Jackson Lee Ice in December 1978.
Custodial history:

The oral history interviews were originally recorded in the summer of 1978, by Dr. Ice, on audiocassettes. Typed transcripts of the tapes were prepared in 1982 at Florida State University. Dr. John Carey of the FSU Department of Religion supervised the typing and editing of the tapes.

Processing information:

Processed by Special Collections staff in January 1990. Partially funded by a National Historical and Publications Records Commission grant, the finding aid was updated, the audiocassettes were reformatted to CD-R media by the Digital Media Center from February-April 2003, and several tapes were restored and reformatted to CD-R by conservator Richard Hess of Vignettes Media in July 2004.

Arrangement:

Recordings and transcripts are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.

Physical / technical requirements:

Content of audiocassettes and digital disks may not be immediately accessible to researchers. For more information, please contact Special Collections & Archives staff at lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu.

Physical facet:

total collection extent

paper documents

optical discs - digital audio

audiocassettes

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

Access and use

Restrictions:

Except where otherwise noted, this collection is open for all researchers.

Box 1-3 may be accessed by researchers upon request at the Special Collections Research Center.

Contents of Box 4-6 are restricted. Access requests will be reviewed by curators in conideration of preservation concerns and interviewee-imposed restrictions. Contact lib-specialcollections@fsu.edu for more information about access to these materials.

See also Technical Requirements note below.

Terms of access:

Works in this collection are protected by copyright. Re-use or copying of these works beyond Fair Use may require permission from rights-holders.

Preferred citation:

[Title of Item], [Date of Item], Tallahassee Civil Rights Oral History Collection, MSS 1990-001, Special Collections & Archives, Florida State University Libraries, Tallahassee, Florida. https://purl.lib.fsu.edu/fa/MSS-1990-001

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