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Creation Date
4-2-1929
Description
A page from the 1929 Ole Miss yearbook featuring 7 photos of African American men on campus: L. B. "Shorty" Broner (Emeritus Dean of the Law School, Attorney Extraordinary), George Harvey (Has served under five Chancellors, spent forty-two years at the University), Charlie Webb ("Forty-three years experience!", "Never lost a trunk; never missed a train to meet Ole Miss students."), Larnce Edwards (Valet-de-luxe for Coach Hazel and athletic teams), Ryas Nelson (Retired railroad magnate; special delivery officer in University post office under Harding-Coolidge regime), "Blind Jim" Ivy (Dean of the Freshman Class. Spent thirty years at the University. He would rather "Ship" the Chancellor than a Freshman. Loves Tupelo and A. and M.), Monroe Brantley, alias "Strawberry" (Fifteen years old when peace was declared in Civil War. Born in Calhoun County. Spent approximately fifty years at the University).
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