Oral history with Clarence Magee, 1997 and 1998

              Oral history with Clarence Magee, 1997 and 1998
F341.5 . M57 vol. 714
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Biography
Clarence Magee was born in 1932 in Columbia, Mississippi, to Glessie and Ora Bell Magee. He was the oldest of ten children and was raised working on his parents' farm.
Mr. Magee graduated from high school in 1949, graduated with a bachelor's degree from Alcorn in 1954, and attended graduate school at Harvard. He served in the U. S. Army for two years and was stationed in Germany.
Mr. Magee earned a teaching certificate and taught school in Wayne County, at the Prentiss Institute, and at several schools in Hattiesburg. While working in Hattiesburg, he was involved in the local biracial committee and was active in helping schools formulate desegregation plans. He later worked for the Southern Mississippi Planning Commission. He then worked for twenty- one years for the U. S. government's Food and Nutrition Services office in Mobile, Alabama.
Mr. Magee retired in 1997 and continues to make his home in Hattiesburg.
Table of Contents
I. Growing up on a farm in Columbia
II. Experiences with segregation; schools
III. College, military service
IV. Early teaching jobs; Prentiss Institute
V. Poll taxes and registering to vote
VI. Leaving education as a career
VII. Desegregation in Hattiesburg
VIII. The biracial committee
IX. Freedom Summer and Freedom Schools
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