John E. Phay collection
Collection containing over 4700 Kodachrome slides and black-and-white photographs documenting the following Mississippi counties in the late 1940s and 1950s: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. The collection includes 727 images of the University of Mississippi, most of the University images do not have corresponding dates but document the campus and culture prior to the 1962 Integration.
More About This Collection
Creator
Phay, John E.
University of Mississippi. Bureau of Educational Research
Date of Original
1949/1962
Subject
African American students
Education, Elementary
Education, Secondary
Segregation in education--Mississippi
Mississippi--Race relations
Civil rights--Mississippi
Education--Pictorial works
Location
United States, Mississippi, Benton County, 34.81729, -89.18848
United States, Mississippi, Clay County, 33.65567, -88.78157
United States, Mississippi, Grenada County, 33.76995, -89.80201
United States, Mississippi, Holmes County, 33.12351, -90.09205
United States, Mississippi, Jones County, 31.62256, -89.16879
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, 34.35675, -89.48492
United States, Mississippi, Lafayette County, Oxford, 34.3665, -89.51925
United States, Mississippi, Marshall County, 34.76225, -89.50305
United States, Mississippi, Panola County, 34.36394, -89.95057
United States, Mississippi, Prentiss County, 34.61829, -88.5201
United States, Mississippi, Quitman County, 34.25141, -90.28912
United States, Mississippi, Sunflower County, 33.60231, -90.58862
United States, Mississippi, Tallahatchie County, 33.95047, -90.17326
United States, Mississippi, Union County, 34.49047, -89.00386
United States, Mississippi, Yalobusha County, 34.02821, -89.70763
Medium
photographs
Type
StillImage
Description
Collection containing over 4700 Kodachrome slides and black-and-white photographs documenting the following Mississippi counties in the late 1940s and 1950s: Benton, Clay, Grenada, Holmes, Jones, Marshall, Panola, Prentiss, Quitman, Sunflower, Tallahatchie, Union, and Yalobusha. The collection includes 727 images of the University of Mississippi, most of the University images do not have corresponding dates but document the campus and culture prior to the 1962 Integration. Beginning in the late 1940s, Dr. John Elon Phay, Professor of Educational Administration, Director of the Bureau of Education Research at the University of Mississippi, and Consultant and Advisor to the 1952 Mississippi Legislative Recess Education Committee, photographically recorded the pre-integration days of selected public elementary and secondary schools of Mississippi. Although filming was not a part of his assigned duties, Dr. Phay utilized his personal time to amass the pictorial history of these schools. The images examine the "separate but equal" ruling of the 1896 case of Plessy v. Ferguson as it pertained to the Mississippi educational system.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
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