| Title: |
Moffett, Tommy
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Mississippi Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Biloxi Police Director Tommy Moffett was born March 2, 1950, in Taylorsville, Mississippi. He grew up in a household of ten siblings, and they all helped in sharecropping until Mr. Moffett was fifteen years old which was the year that his mother died. His childhood was marked by scarcity and hardscrabble, and he had to work to survive. Nonetheless, Mr. Moffett was determined to finish high school, and he did so.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohmoffettt.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Moffett, Tommy, 1950-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
2-Mar-1950
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Taylorsville, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Military personnel; Police officer
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| Age at speaking: |
49
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| Document date: |
02-Nov-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Henderson, William
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| 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
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025686-27600
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