Oral history with Mr. Robert Elton Cox

              Oral history with Mr. Robert Elton Cox
F341.5 . M57 vol. 643
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Biography
Robert Elton Cox was born February 6, 1917, at Mannsdale, Mississippi in Madison County. His parents were Elton D. Cox and Leita Mann Cox. He attended school in Madison, grades one through twelve. He graduated from Millsaps College in Jackson. He taught and coached for two years before going into service. He was a weather forecaster in the States and Libya. After returning to the States he coached in Columbia and Tunica. Then he was principal at Canton High School for five years. He was then elected as superintendent of Madison County schools for twenty- four years.
Mr. Cox retired in 1979, but he was always most interested in Madison County schools. He died February 1, 1994.
Table of Contents
I. Impact of the Minimum Foundation Program, 1953
II. School district reorganization in Madison County
III. The Great Depression and Madison County schools
IV. Education in Mississippi after Brown vs. Topeka
V. Cox's career in education
VI. Service during World War II
VII. Desegregation in Madison County
VIII. Sixteenth Section land mismanagement
IX. Biographical information
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