Oral history with Mrs. LePoint Cassibry Smith

              Oral history with Mrs. LePoint Cassibry Smith
F341.5 . M57 vol. 748, pt. 2
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Biography
LePoint Cassibry Smith was born on October 29, 1920, in Memphis, Tennessee; she grew up in Cleveland, Mississippi. Her parents were Napoleon LePoint Cassibry and Myrtle Hill Cassibry. From kindergarten through sixth grade, she attended the Hill Demonstration School at Delta State Teachers College; she then attended and was graduated from the Cleveland Consolidated School. She attended Delta State Teachers College and the University of Mississippi from which she was graduated in May, 1941, having earned her B. A. degree. In 1970, she earned her master's in library science from Delta State University.
In 1942, she worked for the Works Progress Administration, determining eligibility for jobs in Lowndes and Noxubee Counties. From 1948 through 1986, she was the director of the Bolivar County Library. In January, 1944, she married Warwick Vosper Smith, and they had three daughters, Ivy Smith Alley, Charlotte Evan Smith, and Mimi Smith Clark.
Table of Contents
I. Family background
II. Childhood
III. Cleveland, Mississippi, early 1900s
IV. Library bookmobile
V. Hill Demonstration School
VI. Cleveland Consolidated School
VII. The Depression
VIII. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
IX. Race relations
X. Delta State Teachers College, 1937
XI. Works Progress Administration
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