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Mississippi politician
Edwin Wilburn Hooker Sr. (July 17, 1913 – July 10, 1989)
[1] was an American farmer, cattleman, and businessman who served as a state legislator in Mississippi. Served in the
Mississippi House of Representatives from 1956 to 1964. He represented
Holmes County, Mississippi in the
Mississippi Senate .
[2]
[3]
He served on the
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission , a state agency established to preserve segregation.
[4] A staunch segregationist, he pushed a 1954 bill to rescind Mississippi's offer of land for a new Veterans Administration Hospital because it would be integrated.
[5] He also took issue with book purchases by the
University of Mississippi .
[2] Hooker authored a bill in 1956 that would allow
citizens' councils to receive state funds in order to continue segregation in the state.
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[7]
In the 1960s, he lived at 103 Wall Street,
Lexington, Mississippi .
[8] Hooker was a member of the
Freemasons , the
Shriners , and belonged to the
Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW).
[8]
^ Canerdy, Beverly (June 12, 1989).
"E. Wilburn Hooker Sr., ex-House Member" .
Clarion-Ledger . p. 12 – via
Newspapers.com .
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a
b Javits, Jacob Koppel (1960).
Discrimination, U.S.A. Harcourt, Brace. p. 234. Wilbur Hooker
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"SCR ID # 3-17A-1-9-1-1-1" . MS Digital Archives . February 29, 1960. Retrieved 2023-04-01 .
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"The Mississippa Legislature" (PDF) . June 2, 1964.
^ Smith, David Barton (June 2005).
"The Politics of Racial Disparities: Desegregating the Hospitals in Jackson, Mississippi" . The Milbank Quarterly . 83 (2): 247–269.
doi :
10.1111/j.1468-0009.2005.00346.x .
ISSN
0887-378X .
PMC
2690142 .
PMID
15960771 . State Representative Wilburn Hooker
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"Would Make Citizens Councils Eligible for State Funds" .
Jackson Advocate . 1956-03-17. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-04-01 .
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"Would Make..."
Jackson Advocate . 1956-03-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2023-04-01 .
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a
b
"Genocide in Mississippi by The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)" . Tulane University Digital Library .
Tulane University . 1964. p. 10.
https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane%3A21196