Oral history with Ms. Augustine M. Magee

              Oral history with Ms. Augustine M. Magee
F341.5 . M57 vol. 747, pt. 1
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Biography
Born in Tylertown, Mississippi, on January 22, 1938, Ms. Augustine M. Magee was the oldest of seventeen children. She grew up on a truck farm, helping her father, her siblings, and her mother, who was blind, in the daily chores to keep the farm running. She remembers her childhood as a happy time although while she worked on the farm, she was also attending school. She married at eighteen and had her own family. She moved to New Orleans in 1956 and worked there until having a stroke in 1964, at which time she moved back to Tylertown to care for her aging parents.
In 1996, Ms. Magee moved to Biloxi where she currently resides, managing My Sister's Closet Boutique which is owned by her siblings.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Church life
III. New Orleans, 1956
IV. Moving to Biloxi, 1996
V. My Sister's Closet Boutique
VI. Main Street, Biloxi
VII. Beck Park
VIII. Revitalizing Main Street
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