The HistoryMakers video oral history with Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.
| Format | Video (Streaming) |
| Publication | Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]. |
| Description | 1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 24 min., 41 sec.)) : sound, color. |
| Supplemental Content | https://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=https://da.thehistorymakers.org/storiesForBio;ID=A2002.202 |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Mason, Gilbert R., interviewee. |
| Other author/creator | Crowe, Larry F., interviewer. |
| Other author/creator | Stearns, Scott, director of photography. |
| Other author/creator | HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company. |
| Variant title | History Makers video oral history with Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr. |
| Portion of title | Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr. |
| Abstract | Family practitioner and social activist Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr. was born October 7, 1928 in Jackson, Mississippi. Graduating in 1945 from Lanier High School, Mason earned his B.S. degree from Tennessee State University in 1949. He earned his M.D. degree from Howard University Medical School in 1954. Mason started his family practice in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1955 where he was a physician for forty-five years. In May 1959, he led a nonviolent protest against the "whites only" section of a federally maintained Gulf Coast beach. Mason's "wade ins" resulted in a historic first federal anti-discrimination lawsuit against the state of Mississippi. Mason and local activists also won the first school desegregation lawsuit in the history of Mississippi. His memoirs are published in a 1998 book, co-authored with James Patterson Smith, Beaches, Blood and Ballots: A Black Doctor's Civil Rights Struggles. Mason passed away on July 8, 2006 at age 77. |
| Credits | Videographer, Scott Stearns. |
| Performer | Larry Crowe, interviewer. |
| Date/time/place of a event note | Recorded Biloxi, Mississippi 2002 November 11. |
| Source of description | Vendor-supplied metadata. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Interviews. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Oral histories. |
| Genre/form | Internet videos. |
| Genre/form | Nonfiction films. |
| Stock number | A2002.202 HistoryMakers |