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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.
Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Mason, Gilbert R., interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Biloxi, Mississippi 2002 November 11.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | 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.
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