Podcasts History Mississippi Moments Podcast MS Mo 344 Winston Fairley - A Sense of Duty

MS Mo 344 Winston Fairley - A Sense of Duty

Published: Feb. 1, 2013, 7:54 p.m.

In the mid-1960s, Mississippi began the process of desegregating its public schools.\xa0 Winston Fairley of Gulfport recalls transferring to a previously all-white school in Hattiesburg after finishing the eighth grade.\xa0

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As the son of a local civil rights leader, Fairley felt a sense of duty to represent his people and make his father proud.\xa0 Even so,\xa0he remembers the move left him feeling isolated within his own community.

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