Oral history with Ms. Lillie Belle Johnson

              Oral history with Ms. Lillie Belle Johnson
F341.5 . M57 vol. 746, pt. 1
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Biography
Ms. Lillie Belle Fields[?] Johnson was born in Shannon, Mississippi, on September 9, 1925, into a family of farmers who owned their own farm. As a child she attended several different schools, including schools in churches; she finished high school at Mary Holmes Junior College in West Point, Mississippi. She married, then became a widow with four children, but continued her education, earning her undergraduate degree at Rust College, her master's degree at Tennessee State, and her educational specialist degree at Mississippi State.
She is now retired from teaching third grade and special education. She works in her community with the National Council of Negro Women, the NAACP, the Black Business Association, the Boy Scouts, the Girls Four- H Club, and the Rust College Alumni Association. Additionally, she owns and operates Johnson One- Shop. She is an active member of Pine Grove Missionary Baptist Church.
Ms. Johnson is the proud mother of four children, one of whom is deceased, and six grandchildren.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Children
III. National Council of Negro Women Project at defunct Okolona Junior College site
IV. Farming in childhood
V. Registering to vote
VI. Protest marching in Tupelo, Mississippi
VII. Skip Rossi
VIII. Attending Okolona Junior College
IX. Teaching school at Nettleton
X. Women's rights
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