usm_coh_ohstewart ohstewart coh usm yes Oral history with Peter H. Stewart Stewart, Peter H., 1934- Child Development Group of Mississippi University of Mississippi. Medical Center Friends of Children Mississippi Action for Progress Yale National Urban Fellows Program Head Start programs--Mississippi--Jackson Head Start programs--Mississippi--Hinds County Civil rights--Mississippi Medical care--Mississippi Teachers--Mississippi--Edwards Teachers--Mississippi--Hinds County School integration--Mississippi--Jackson School integration--Mississippi--Hinds County Stewart, Peter H., 1934- Oral history. Two interviews conducted on 8-20-1997 and 8-28-1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start agency. In 1970, he was executive director of the committee to oversee integration of the city of Jackson, Mississippi. In 1973, he became director of minority affairs for the University of Mississippi Medical Center. This interview is part of the Civil Rights Documentation Project, funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the University of Southern Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Miss. : University of Southern Mississippi Libraries Bolton, Charles C. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage University of Southern Mississippi. Libraries Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive Collection (University of Southern Mississippi) Mississippi Oral History Program Collection (Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive) Transcripts Oral histories http://digilib.usm.edu/u?/coh,6969 Mississippi oral history program of the University of Southern MS, vol. 712, McCain Library, University of Southern Mississippi. Forms part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of the Mississippi Oral History Program Collection in the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. Forms part of University of Southern Mississippi Digital Collections. Forms part of the Mississippi Digital Library. 1997-08-20 1997-08-28 Sharkey County (Miss.) Rankin County (Miss.) Hinds County (Miss.) Vicksburg (Miss.) Utica (Miss.) Jackson (Miss.) Bolton (Miss.) Edwards (Miss.) Holly Springs (Miss.) Morning Star (Miss.) Greenwood (Miss.) Itta Bena (Miss.) Meridian (Miss.) Georgia Connecticut Washington (D.C.) San Francisco (Calif.) New York (N.Y.) Copyright Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage. No unauthorized reproduction or publication. 20090817 151132