An oral history with Florence Knight Blaylock, 1997 Jan. 16. c2002.

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An oral history with Florence Knight Blaylock, 1997 Jan. 16. c2002.

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Describes her childhood and race relations in Mississippi. Tells stories about her family tree and the relations between the three distinct branches that are racially Negro, Caucasian, and mixed.

39 p. ; 28 cm.

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7617487

University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus, Joseph Anderson Cook Library

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Blaylock, Florence Knight, 1932-

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Mrs. Blaylock is the great-granddaughter of Newton Knight, a leader of a band of Confederate deserters in Jones County, who had several children by an African American woman. She was raised in rural Mississippi on 80 acres of land owned by her father, a black farmer. After her retirement from the medical field, she returned to Soso, Mississippi and repurchased some of the family farm. From the description of An oral history with Florence Knight Blaylock, 1997 Jan. 16. c2002. (Univers...