EPISODE · Feb 1, 2013 · 11 MIN
MS Mo 344 Winston Fairley - A Sense of Duty
from Mississippi Moments Podcast
In the mid-1960s, Mississippi began the process of desegregating its public schools. Winston Fairley of Gulfport recalls transferring to a previously all-white school in Hattiesburg after finishing the eighth grade. As the son of a local civil rights leader, Fairley felt a sense of duty to represent his people and make his father proud. Even so, he remembers the move left him feeling isolated within his own community.
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