Oral history with Reverend Edmund Howell

              Oral history with Reverend Edmund Howell
F341.5 . M57 vol. 747, pt. 2
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Biography
Reverend Edmund Howell was one of thirteen children born to Osborn Howell and Pinkie Austin Howell on November 14, 1917, in Jackson, Alabama. His father worked at the locks on the Tombigbee River. School and church were important in his childhood, as well as responsibility for helping to keep the family's household running successfully.
Reverend Howell spent about three years in the United States military service in the South Pacific. He worked with the Army Engineers on Government Street Loop, Mobile, Alabama, recovering sunken barges. In 1950, Reverend Howell moved to Biloxi, Mississippi. In 1971, he was called to the ministry. He is currently the associate minister and teacher of a men's Sunday school class at Main Street Baptist Church, in Biloxi.
Table of Contents
I. Family background
II. Childhood
III. Military service
IV. Army Engineers, Coast of Gulf of Mexico
V. Main Street, Biloxi, 1950
VI. Church ministry
VII. Main Street Baptist Church, Biloxi
VIII. Integration
IX. Church ministry
X. John Henry Beck Park
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