Weekend here on American History tv. We are in special collections at the university of southern mississippi. Today we are looking at the Theodore Bilbo papers. His collection is very large. [laughter] we have over 2500 boxes of archival material relating to Theodore Bilbo. His career and his life. Theodore bilbo and this is one of his signed photos that he would distribute to fans was a mississippi politician in the first half of the 20th century. s career started around 1910, when he was doing a state congressman race. By the 1930s he had been elected governor. At the time in mississippi, you cannot serve consecutive terms as governor. He served one term into the 1920s, early 1930s, then skipped a term, then stroked another four years later. Then served another four years later. He was elected to the u. S. Senate in the mid1930s. He served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. After being elected for a third term because of bribery charges. And because of his views regardin
Railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. Today this southcentral Mississippi City is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the countrys largest Training Bases. With the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the Civil Rights Movement. Instance, weg, for had registration. Africanamericans could not register. Everything was still segregated. A lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. Later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her lifes earnings and then gave it all away. She started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. She would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. She started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. From a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to . 50 and a dollar. What was
All weekend, American History tv is featuring hattiesburg, mississippi. Was founded by captain William Harris hardy, a Confederate Railroad builder. The city was named after the captains second wife hattie. About hattiesburg all weekend here on American History tv. We are in special collections in hattiesburg, mississippi. His collection is very large. We have boxes of archival material related to Theodore Bilbo. Signed photos his he would distribute to fans. He was a mississippi politician 20the first half of the century. He was a state congressman, and by the 1930s he had been elected governor, and he had put in two terms as governor. Term at the end of the 1920s, and of the 1930s and then served a term for years later. Then he was elected to the u. S. Senate in the mid1930s. He served until 1946 when he was removed from the senate. Removed from the senate after being elected for a third term because of bribery charges and because of his views regarding Race Relations. Very wellliked
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