George Yarbrough
Not to be confused with George Yarborough for whom USS Yarborough was named
George M. Yarbrough (August 15, 1916 - 1988) was a newspaper owner and state legislator in Mississippi. He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate.[1]
He was born in Red Banks, Mississippi. He achieved the rank of master sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War II. In 1958. He acquired The South Reporter and became its editor.[1]
He was elected to the Mississippi House in 1952 and to the Mississippi Senate in 1956, serving there until 1968. After leaving office he was re-elected to the state senate in 1972 and served there until 1980 when he lost re-election. He served as President Pro Tempore of the Mississippi Senate from 1960 to 1968 and served as acting Lieutenant Governor from 1966 to 1968.[1]
Yarbrough organized an investigation of voter drive registration efforts that included African Americans on the committees overseeing the federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) program.[2]
He ordered Mississippi Highway Patrol officers off the University of Mississippi campus while acting as the governor's representative during protests over James Meredith's federal court ordered admittance to the whites only school.[3][4]
In 1958 he sponsored an anti-NAACP resolution.[5]
References
- ^ a b c "Oral history with Honorable George M. Yarbrough". Civil Rights Digital Library.
- ^ "A.S.C.S. - Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service". Civil Rights Digital Library.
- ^ Belknap, Michal R. (1995). Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. ISBN 9780820317359.
- ^ Branch, Taylor (16 April 2007). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. ISBN 9781416558682.
- ^ Katagiri, Yasuhiro (6 January 2014). Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. ISBN 9780807153147.
- This draft is in progress as of October 18, 2022.
- 1916 births
- 1988 deaths
- Editors of Mississippi newspapers
- Mississippi state senators
- People from Marshall County, Mississippi
- Members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
- United States Army personnel of World War II
- 20th-century American politicians
- 20th-century American newspaper editors
- Military personnel from Mississippi