Oral history with Bilbo Rodgers transcript; 2000

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Oral history with Bilbo Rodgers transcript; 2000

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Description: Oral history.; Transcript of interview with Bilbo Rodgers conducted on May 26, 2000. Bilbo Rodgers was born in Louisville, Mississippi in 1924. He worked on the farm with his family as a child, and joined the United States Army in 1943 at the age of 18. Rodgers shipped to England with the 490 Battalion and participated in the D-Day landing in France. He returned to Mississippi in 1945 and finished eleventh and twelfth grades. Rodgers moved to the coast in 1949 in search of a job, and in 1950 was hired by the International Paper Company, where he worked for 35 years.

Creator: Rodgers, Bilbo; Scull-DeArmey, Stephanie

Date: 2000-05-26

Format: Digital reproduction of a 48-page transcript.

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Collection: Civil Rights Documentation Project: Canton, Jackson, Gulf Coast

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Source: E185.93.M6 C569 2000

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