Mississippi Civil Rights Project

Susie Marshall served over forty-one years from 1937 to 1978 as an educator in Oxford and Lafayette County. She was a Jeanne Supervisor for twenty-six African-American Lafayette schools from 1952 to 1964. She graduated from Rust College with a degree in elementary education in 1952 and received a Masters Degree from the University of Mississippi in 1972. She served on the Oxford Housing Authority. She has been a member of Second Baptist Church and has taught Sunday School for over forty years and a choir member for sixty years. In addition, she has been active in the Oxford Development Association, the Retired Teachers Association, and the Retired Senior Volunteer Program