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Document Details
| Title: | Jamison, Robert James |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
| Collection: | Mississippi Oral History Project |
| Description: | Reverend Robert James Jamison was born on May 28, 1936. As a child, he lived in both St. Louis, Missouri, and the community of Shake Rag in Tupelo, Mississippi, where his grandparents reared him. From his grandfather, Reverend Jamison learned carpentry skills which he put to use to earn his own money even while still in high school. Upon graduation, he and his wife married, and they attended Mississippi Industrial College in Holly Springs, Mississippi, on athletic scholarships. After graduating he taught school in Tishomingo, Mississippi, for three years after which time he attended the University of Utah and earned his master's degree. From the University of South Carolina, he earned his education specialist degree, and he earned the Master of Divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary in Memphis, Tennessee. |
| URL: | http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohjamisonr.html |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Jamison, Robert James, 1936- |
| Speaker gender: | Male |
| Speaker date of birth: | 28-May-1936 |
| Speaker race: | Black |
| Speaker occupation: | Clergy |
| Age at speaking: | 63 |
| Document date: | 03-Nov-1999 |
| Interviewer: | Mitchell, Lena |
| Locations discussed: | Mississippi; North America; United States |
| Topics discussed - ASP terms: | Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0025659-27562 |