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An Oral History with Gilbert R. Mason Sr
Discusses family background, childhood in Jackson, and his medical practice. Shares his participation in the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi, including his efforts to desegregate the Biloxi Regional Hospital to improve medical care available to African Americans. Talks about Medgar Evers and other key civil rights leaders in Mississippi and his work for the NAACP.
Beaches, Blood, and Ballots
The first book to focus on the integration of the Mississippi Gulf Coast
Wading In
Wading In: Desegregation on the Mississippi Gulf Coast frames the fight for beach and school desegregation within the history of Black life in Biloxi, beginning with the arrival of slave ships on the Gulf Coast islands in 1721. Detailing the buildup of Back-of-Town businesses, lynchings in the early 1900s, and national and state legislation repressing Black progress, author Amy Lemco contextualizes the regional atmosphere Dr. Gilbert Mason—a resilient civic leader, humanitarian, and lover of the water—and his family encountered in 1955. Using extensive archival records and interviews with survivors, the book chronicles how Dr. Mason inspired and helped organize local Black activists to p...
