Josephine McCann Posey was a native Mississippian with more than thirty-five years in the educational system as a public school teacher, university professor, administrator, and special assistant to a president. She is author of Succeeding against Great Odds: Alcorn State University in Its Second Century and Against Great Odds: The History of Alcorn State University, both published by University Press of Mississippi, and a pictorial history, Alcorn State University and the National Alumni Association.
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