Oral history with Ms. Juno Gwendolyn Nichols-de Marks

              Oral history with Ms. Juno Gwendolyn Nichols- de Marks
F341.5 . M57 vol. 747, pt. 1
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Biography
Ms. Juno Gwendolyn Nichols- de Marks was born November 25, 1924, in Biloxi, Mississippi. She grew up in a segregated Biloxi. Her father had moved to Biloxi in 1915 to take over the principalship of Biloxi Colored High School. Ms. Nichols- de Marks was graduated from Biloxi Colored High School in 1941 at which time she entered Alcorn University. In 1945 she was elected Miss Alcorn; she was also graduated. For her master's degree she attended Tennessee State University, studying sociology and music education.
At the age of four, Ms. Nichols- de Marks began studying piano. In her later career she played that instrument for many activities, including churches, banquets, and the State Teachers Association, and she instructed, organized, and directed a choir in church.
She is a member of the NAACP and the mother of three children.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood in Biloxi
II. Higher education
III. Music education
IV. Church music
V. Shape note singing
VI. Segregation in higher education
VII. Book written by father, What the Negro Needs
VIII. NAACP
IX. Dr. Gilbert Mason and the desegregation of public beaches
X. Inequalities in school supplies
XI. Voting
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