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Mississippi Moments, a weekly radio program airing on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, is a partnership between the University of Southern Mississippi Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, the Mississippi Humanities Council, and MPB.
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A grounded look at how Katrina still shapes Mississippi's communities, preparedness, and recovery.
Voices of Our People: Hurricane Katrina: Ep. 4 - Lessons Learned stays with Katrina after the weather has passed, considering how its emotional and civic aftermath continues to shape Mississippi 20 years on.
A grounded account of Katrina's Mississippi recovery, where emergency response turns into the daily work of feeding and housing neighbors.
Hurricane Katrina's aftermath is framed here as a history of improvisation, with first responders, the Mississippi Army National Guard, community and business leaders, and volunteers trying to turn chaos into a workable recovery.
A grounded Katrina episode follows survivors through the seconds when shelter failed and instinct had to take over.
Hurricane Katrina is presented through moments that feel painfully immediate: a roof giving way in seconds, insulation flying like snow, and survivors trying to find air as the storm moves across the Gulf Coast. Dr. David Holt and Dr.
A forecast hardens into a careful study of decisions under pressure.
Voices of Our People, Hurricane Katrina begins where weather turns into judgment. After Katrina's predicted landfall shifted from the Florida panhandle to Mississippi, officials at every level started planning for the worst case, while Gulf Coast residents faced the familiar…
A Mississippi guardsman's arrival at Dogwood makes military history feel immediate and personal.
Sergeant First Class Sean Cooley's 2005 deployment to Iraq gives this episode its grip. The 155th Brigade Combat Team from Mississippi reaches the remote forward operating base Dogwood after the insurgency has already ended any notion of a short war.
Birdland nerves, familiar banter, Baltimore patience.
An oral history interview about the 761st Tank Battalion, the first African American armored unit in WWII.
Mississippi Moments Podcast's 'Voices of Our People: Hurricane Katrina: Ep.
Mississippi Moments Podcast's 'Voices of Our People: Hurricane Katrina: Ep.
Mississippi Moments Podcast's 'Voices of Our People: Hurricane Katrina: Ep.
Mississippi Moments Podcast's "Voices of Our People: Hurricane Katrina: Ep.
["Sean Cooley carried a bigger medical bag than the unit medic before the Mississippi Guard sent him to FOB Dogwood in Iraq.", "Dr.
Jim Swagger of Brookhaven describes joining the U.S.
Mississippi Moments Redux revisits the 761st Tank Battalion with Ross Walton and military historian Dr.
Roscoe Jones says he begged Schwerner to go to Philadelphia, then stayed because of a church engagement.
Ross Walton and Dr.
A historian and host revisit a past episode about Father Peter Quinn's experience when Dr.
A historian and a former POW discuss the prisoner of war experience at the Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War.
A discussion about the life and career of Pro Football Hall of Fame punter Ray Guy, followed by classic oral history clips.