Lee, Rev. George and Courts, Gus

“Pray not for your mom and pop, they’ve gone to heaven. Pray you can make it through this hell.” -Rev. George Lee, Annual meeting for the Regional Council of Negro Leadership Born in 1904, George W. Lee grew up in […]
Lee, Reverend Clay F.: Oral History

Laurel, MS native Reverend Clay F. Lee discusses his introduction and rise into religion and clergymen of Mississippi. Upon the murders of the three civil rights workers, he talks about to what extent it affected his preaching. Lee mentions incidents […]
Little, Jerome G.: Oral History

JEROME G. LITTLE was born in 1952 in Sumner, Mississippi. After serving in the Marine Corps from 1974 to 1977, he pushed for water rights for his family and community members of the Goose Pond subdivision in Webb. Mr. Little […]