George Yarbrough

George M. Yarbrough (August 15, 1916 – November 27, 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 was a Citizens Council member and on the Executive Committee of the Citizens Councils.^[2] Yarbrough served on the committees overseeing the federal Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) program. He organized an investigation of voter drive registration efforts that included African Americans .^[3]

Yarbrough ordered Mississippi Highway Patrol officers off the University of Mississippi campus while acting as the governor's representative during the 1962 protests over James Meredith's federal court ordered admittance to the whites only school.^[4]^[5] In 1958, he sponsored an anti-NAACP resolution.^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Oral history with Honorable George M. Yarbrough". Civil Rights Digital Library.
^ "The Mississippi Legislature" (PDF). www.crmvet.org. 1964.
^ "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. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820317359.
^ Branch, Taylor (16 April 2007). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781416558682.
^ Katagiri, Yasuhiro (6 January 2014). Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807153147.

[crdl-1] "Oral history with Honorable George M. Yarbrough". Civil Rights Digital Library.

[2] "The Mississippi Legislature" (PDF). www.crmvet.org. 1964.

[3] "A.S.C.S. - Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service". Civil Rights Digital Library.

[4] Belknap, Michal R. (1995). Federal Law and Southern Order: Racial Violence and Constitutional Conflict in the Post-Brown South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820317359.

[5] Branch, Taylor (16 April 2007). Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781416558682.

[6] Katagiri, Yasuhiro (6 January 2014). Black Freedom, White Resistance, and Red Menace: Civil Rights and Anticommunism in the Jim Crow South. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807153147.

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