Biography:

University professor. Born– Birmingham, September 22, 1911. Parents– Glover and Maud (Mims) Moore. Education– B.A., Birmingham Southern College, 1932; M.A., Vanderbilt University, 1933; Ph.D., 1936. Employed as an instructor, Vanderbilt, 1935-1936; Mississippi State University, 1936-1977; Adjutant General’s Department, U.S. Army, 1942-1946. Member– president, Mississippi Historical Society; Organization of American Historians. Honors– A group of former students published in his honor  Southern Miscellany, a volume of essays, 1981. Died November 9, 2004.

Source:

Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, 1982-1983; obituary, Birmingham News, November 12, 2004.

Publication(s):

The Afro-American Story. State College, Miss.; s.n., 1970.

The Missouri Controversy, 1819-1821. Lexington; University of Kentucky Press, 1966.

William Jemison Mims, Soldier and Squire. Birmingham, Ala.; s.n., 1966.

Editor:

A Calhoun County, Alabama Boy in the 1860s. Jackson; University Press of Mississippi, 1978.