- Collection:
- Oral History
- Title:
- Oral history with Mr. Joe Reyer, native Mississippian
- Creator:
- Garvey, Michael
Reyer, Joe, 1893- - Publisher:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage.
- Date of Original:
- 1974
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers
Civil rights movement - People:
- Reyer, Joe, 1893- --Interviews
- Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 23 and October 30, 1974 with Mr. Joe Reyer at his home in Poplarville, Mississippi.Reyer was born in 1893 in Pearl River County, Mississippi.He attended an agricultural high school, now Pearl River College.During his working life Reyer farmed, built a few houses, worked on road construction, and lumbered.He drove teams of oxen hauling lumber from isolated sawmills to the town of Poplarville. In 1929, Reyer married his first wife, Miss Edna Varnado, whose mother was former Governor Theodore G. Bilbo's sister.He touches upon race relations in the Pearl River County-Poplarville area.
Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.
This item is part of the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. - Metadata URL:
- https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_d7cdb919-e418-4eb7-a21c-f69bb130df3d
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Contributing Institution:
- University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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