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From the Oral History Collection. A photograph of two women who are members of the Pearl River South Singing Convention performing at the Roots Reunion in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

From the Oral History Collection. A VHS recording of the March 2000 Roots Reunion held at the Walthall School Center in downtown Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

Oral history.; Mr. King T. Evans was born on March 19, 1913 near Uniontown, Alabama, in Perry County. In 1925, Mr. Evans moved to Mississippi with his parents. His father was a mechanic and farmer. For a brief period, Mr. Evans attended the Piney Woods Country Life School; however, most of his time was spent working on the farm along with his father. Mr. Evans married, started a family, and became a foreman on the M.C. Ewing Plantation in Anguilla, just south of Vickland. In 1967, he bought a portion of the Sunnyside Plantation on the Sunflower River for his own cultivation. Along with his son, King Jr., he farmed that land until he retired. He became co-owner of a funeral home and burial association, Edwards and Evans, in Greenville, Mississippi. That business closed in 1985. In the interim he taught a class in farm mechanics in the local high school, Henry Weather High School, and later took a similar position in the Leland School System. He retired from the Leland School System in 1978.