Oral history with Lee J. Adams, Sr.; 2003

Oral history.; Transcript for interview with Lee J. Adams, Sr. Lee J. Adams was born in 1916, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He graduated from Thirty-third Avenue High School. As a young man, Mr. Adams played semiprofessional baseball with a "Negro league", the Gulfport Panthers. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Mr. Adams worked as a waiter at Gulf Park College for Women; he was on the initial crews who started building the Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center, and he drove a truck for the Merchant Company for many years before he became the safety officer for the city of Gulfport.

Oral history.; Interview with Lee J. Adams, Sr. Lee J. Adams was born in 1916, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He graduated from Thirty-third Avenue High School. As a young man, Mr. Adams played semiprofessional baseball with a "Negro league", the Gulfport Panthers. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Mr. Adams worked as a waiter at Gulf Park College for Women; he was on the initial crews who started building the Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center, and he drove a truck for the Merchant Company for many years before he became the safety officer for the city of Gulfport.

Oral history.; Interview with Lee J. Adams, Sr. Lee J. Adams was born in 1916, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He graduated from Thirty-third Avenue High School. As a young man, Mr. Adams played semiprofessional baseball with a "Negro league", the Gulfport Panthers. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Mr. Adams worked as a waiter at Gulf Park College for Women; he was on the initial crews who started building the Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center, and he drove a truck for the Merchant Company for many years before he became the safety officer for the city of Gulfport.

Oral history.; Interview with Lee J. Adams, Sr. Lee J. Adams was born in 1916, in Gulfport, Mississippi. He graduated from Thirty-third Avenue High School. As a young man, Mr. Adams played semiprofessional baseball with a "Negro league", the Gulfport Panthers. During World War II, he served in the United States Navy. Mr. Adams worked as a waiter at Gulf Park College for Women; he was on the initial crews who started building the Gulfport Naval Construction Battalion Center, and he drove a truck for the Merchant Company for many years before he became the safety officer for the city of Gulfport.