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Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.

Oral history.; Howard Cole discusses his Mississippi roots in the early nineteenth century, his childhood, including his interactions in North Mississippi with Native Americans, the Neshoba County Fair, the Great Depression, and military service which interrupted his college education. He recounts his service in Europe during World War II, his injuries there, and his return to the United States. Unable to finish college in his original field of study, chemistry, he became the owner of a radio station, during which time he employed Charles Evers as the first black disc jockey in Mississippi. Cole describes the civil rights movement that unfolded around him in the 1960s, including the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the activists who came to Mississippi during Freedom Summer, the organizing in the black community, race relations, and the desegregation of public schools. He recalls supporting the Neshoba County Fair after World War II through radio coverage at his station, and the growth that the fair has seen from the 1940s to the 1970s.