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M.M Roberts Stadium named after vocal segregationist, College Board member

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/705010321/1002

"M.M. Roberts Stadium, as the University of Southern Mississippi's football complex is officially called, is a monument not only to the sport but also to the late Hattiesburg attorney and former member of the state College Board whom the Southern Miss athletics Web site says "has been given credit for the development of Southern Miss as a comprehensive university."   ...

"But Roberts garnered much press attention when he came down on the losing side of an 8-3 College Board vote that allowed the Mississippi State University basketball team to participate in the 1963 NCAA basketball tournament that included integrated teams."

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Just part of the legacy of the "General" McCain who local old folks seem to miss so much.  McCain was in thick with these racist segregationists, which might explain why the keeper of his official university records, one Aubrey Lucas at McCain Library, will not allow access to those papers.  Wonder why that is? 

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Do not ever expect Aubrey to get involved in anything that is controversial.  He simply will not.  He cannot stand controversy, and he will not take a stand if at all possible to avoid.  In times when he should have done exactly that--taken a stand and spoken up--he has not done so.  Do not expect him to change his fundamental personality now.

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he was against playboy when it came the first time

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M.M Roberts Stadium named after vocal segregationist, College Board member

http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070501/NEWS01/705010321/1002

"M.M. Roberts Stadium, as the University of Southern Mississippi's football complex is officially called, is a monument not only to the sport but also to the late Hattiesburg attorney and former member of the state College Board whom the Southern Miss athletics Web site says "has been given credit for the development of Southern Miss as a comprehensive university."   ...

"But Roberts garnered much press attention when he came down on the losing side of an 8-3 College Board vote that allowed the Mississippi State University basketball team to participate in the 1963 NCAA basketball tournament that included integrated teams."


Just curious as to the timing of this article. What brought this to mind? The author woke up this morning and thought, "Gee I should write an article on some segregationist that has been dead 25 years"? Is this part of a series? Was this a guest writer? Those of us who read the American online might have missed something here. Anybody want to splain it?



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Is there enough money in the budget to rename everything in Mississippi that was named after a "vocal segregationist"??

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he was against playboy when it came the first time



 But was he *for* it before he was against it?

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The author woke up this morning and thought, "Gee I should write an article on some segregationist that has been dead 25 years"? ... Anybody want to splain it?
I agree, this seem out of the blue.  Maybe this is the beginning of a campaign to rename the stadium to bring in a corporate donor.  Aramark Stadium?  Who am I kidding, Aramark is way to big for that.  How about Dews Foundry Stadium?

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...........which might explain why the keeper of his official university records, one Aubrey Lucas at McCain Library, will not allow access to those papers. 


Are you suggesting that a former president is keeper of the keys?



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You can check out the online comments here:

http://forums.hattiesburgamerican.com/viewtopic.php?t=5597

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How about naming it the Shelby F. Thames Stadium?  There would be a lot of "pork" money for it and just think how much money it would save in paint.

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Is there enough money in the budget to rename everything in Mississippi that was named after a "vocal segregationist"??


I can go you one better. There is, or was, a state facility in Mississippi that's named after a Nazi general.

A few years back I discovered that the Frisbee Golf course at Paul B. Johnson State park, was named the "Desert Fox Disc Golf Course". The score sheet that you get when you rent a disc reveals that the course was named after "one of the great captains of all history", Erwin Rommel, the commander of Hitler's Africa Corps and designer of the "West Wall" coastal defenses along the Atlantic seaboard. The rationale for naming the disc golf course after Field Marshall Rommel was that some of the German POW's who built Lake Paul B. Johnson were from the Africa Corps. Trust me, I'm not making this up.

I haven't been to Paul B. Johnson in some time. Is the disc golf course still named "The Desert Fox"? Of course, if you want to get down to brass tacks on this issue, Forrest County Mississippi is named after General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the KKK. Now that's a "vocal segregationist"!



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LVN wrote:

Is there enough money in the budget to rename everything in Mississippi that was named after a "vocal segregationist"??


I can go you one better. There is, or was, a state facility in Mississippi that's named after a Nazi general.

A few years back I discovered that the Frisbee Golf course at Paul B. Johnson State park, was named the "Desert Fox Disc Golf Course". The score sheet that you get when you rent a disc reveals that the course was named after "one of the great captains of all history", Erwin Rommel, the commander of Hitler's Africa Corps and designer of the "West Wall" coastal defenses along the Atlantic seaboard. The rationale for naming the disc golf course after Field Marshall Rommel was that some of the German POW's who built Lake Paul B. Johnson were from the Africa Corps. Trust me, I'm not making this up.

I haven't been to Paul B. Johnson in some time. Is the disc golf course still named "The Desert Fox"? Of course, if you want to get down to brass tacks on this issue, Forrest County Mississippi is named after General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the founder of the KKK. Now that's a "vocal segregationist"!


Technically, Gen. Rommel was not a Nazi. He never joined Nazi Party. In fact he privately carried considerable disdain for the Nazis. Why anyone would name a Disc Golf course after Rommel though is a mystery to me.



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