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VOL. 03
WE MAKE
The Siggers High School Oral History Collection
Twenty alumni reflect on Siggers High School, a historically Black secondary school in Shannon, Mississippi (c. 1940–1970). Known in its early years as Shannon Colored School, it is remembered as a place that shaped education, pride, and community.
Photo: The Vell Collection
Credits
Community
Shannon, MS
Community Partners
Rev. Dr. Alexander Anderson
John Anderson
Dexter Foster
Say Cummings
Rep. Rickey Thompson
Nicholas Woods
Shannon High School
Lee County School District
Oral History Narrators
Alexander Anderson
John Anderson
Gloria Cox
Gloria Dabbs
A.B. Dilworth
Bonnie Dilworth
Dexter Foster
Mary Gardner
Gloria Hodges
Archie Lee Ivy
Tommie Lee Ivy
Teenie King
Danny Lyles
Paul Lyles
Tom Henry Lyles
Bobbie Randle
Robert Smith
Rickey Thompson
Wilma Trice
Jacqueline Woods
Support
Mississippi Humanities Council
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
Collaborators
Composition
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