Oral history with Katherine Carr Esters; 2001

Oral history.; Katherine Carr Esters was born on April 9, 1928 in rural Attala County, Mississippi. Esters grew up with racial segregation and attended school at Mary Holmes Seminary High School during the Jim Crow era. In one incident in 1946, Esters was riding the Tri State Bus that ran from Columbus to Durant, Mississippi. As she sat in the white section and refused to move, the driver threatened to have her jailed. Esters wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company about the conditions on public transport. As a result, the curtain that separated the two sections of the bus was removed, and African Americans were no longer required to sit on the back seat. Her career was in medical administration, from which she retired in 1972, returning to Kosciusko.

Oral history.; Katherine Carr Esters was born on April 9, 1928 in rural Attala County, Mississippi. Esters grew up with racial segregation and attended school at Mary Holmes Seminary High School during the Jim Crow era. In one incident in 1946, Esters was riding the Tri State Bus that ran from Columbus to Durant, Mississippi. As she sat in the white section and refused to move, the driver threatened to have her jailed. Esters wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company about the conditions on public transport. As a result, the curtain that separated the two sections of the bus was removed, and African Americans were no longer required to sit on the back seat. Her career was in medical administration, from which she retired in 1972, returning to Kosciusko.

Oral history.; Katherine Carr Esters was born on April 9, 1928 in rural Attala County, Mississippi. Esters grew up with racial segregation and attended school at Mary Holmes Seminary High School during the Jim Crow era. In one incident in 1946, Esters was riding the Tri State Bus that ran from Columbus to Durant, Mississippi. As she sat in the white section and refused to move, the driver threatened to have her jailed. Esters wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company about the conditions on public transport. As a result, the curtain that separated the two sections of the bus was removed, and African Americans were no longer required to sit on the back seat. Her career was in medical administration, from which she retired in 1972, returning to Kosciusko.

Oral history.; Katherine Carr Esters was born on April 9, 1928 in rural Attala County, Mississippi. Esters grew up with racial segregation and attended school at Mary Holmes Seminary High School during the Jim Crow era. In one incident in 1946, Esters was riding the Tri State Bus that ran from Columbus to Durant, Mississippi. As she sat in the white section and refused to move, the driver threatened to have her jailed. Esters wrote a letter of complaint to the bus company about the conditions on public transport. As a result, the curtain that separated the two sections of the bus was removed, and African Americans were no longer required to sit on the back seat. Her career was in medical administration, from which she retired in 1972, returning to Kosciusko.