Two Books with material about LHS students

Craftsmanship and Character: A History of the Vinson & Elkins Law Firm of Houston, 1917-1997.

by Harold Melvin Hyman - 1998 - 658 pages

Book gives history of one of country’s premier law firms and contains segment about the firm’s hiring of first Black lawyer, Sherman Stimley (LHS 1962).  E.g., page 408

“Team members interviewed a black student, Sherman E. Stimley. Certain V&E partners had met Stimley during the summer of 1972 while he was employed in the …”

Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the 60’s

by Tom Brokaw - 2007

“[I]n Boom!, one of America’s premier journalists gives us an epic portrait of another defining era in America as he brings to life the tumultuous Sixties, a fault line in American history. The voices and stories of both famous people and ordinary citizens come together as Brokaw takes us on a memorable journey through a remarkable time, exploring how individual lives and the national mindset were affected by a controversial era and showing how the aftershocks of the Sixties continue to resound in our lives today.”

This book contains references to interviews in connection with Brokaw’s “Separate and Unequal” feature on Lanier High School.  For example, beginning at page 297 is a section on Charlene Stimley Priester (LHS 196_)  and Ouida Barnett Atkins (LHS Teacher), the daughter of former Mississippi Govenor Ross Barnett , the segregationist who among other things tried to stop James Meridith’s enrollment as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi.