![]() ![]() Photos in the University of Southern Mississippi’s 1986-87 yearbook shows the entire Kappa Alpha fraternity. A photo in the 1984-85 Delta State University yearbook shows at least three fraternity members with darkened faces and arms. Several of the KAs - many of whom are holding beer bottles or are posing with dates - appear to have darkened faces. A photo in Mississippi State’s 1986 yearbook shows a Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity member posing with a darkened face and arm.Ī photo in the 1986-87 Delta State University yearbook shows a group of Kappa Alpha fraternity members and their dates. ![]() “Si, if only my name was Carlos,” the photo caption reads.Ī photo in the Mississippi State’s 1984 yearbook shows a Phi Tau fraternity member with a darkened face wearing a coat and tie. The caption provided to the yearbook by the fraternity reads: “Si, if only my name was Carlos.” The 1970 University of Mississippi yearbook shows a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity with darkened face and arms, wearing what appears to be a sombrero. Roger Wicker was a freshman that year - shows a student whose face, arms and hands are covered in a dark paint and is wearing what appears to be a sombrero. In the 1970 Ole Miss yearbook, the yearbook page for Sigma Nu - a fraternity in which U.S. “What better way to narrate their ideas of place and status than to use their social networks to put forward their ideas of African Americans’ lack of place on campus and in society?” They were highly organized, tightly knit networks of wealthy whites,” Thomas said. Greek life was really instrumental in introducing those things. Lee beard growing contests - all of these other reenactments of ‘Lost Cause’ tropes. “All of these instances coexisted with Dixie Week, Confederate balls, Robert E. James Thomas, a sociology professor at University of Mississippi, said the use of blackface is intimately tethered to rituals that reinforce the narrative of the Lost Cause. Another man to right side of the photo is wearing what appears to be a white sheet with holes cut out for the eyes and mouth.Ī spokeswoman for Hood said he was member of the fraternity, Pi Kappa Alpha, at the time the photo appeared in the yearbook but that Hood is not among the men in the photos. The fraternity to which Hood belonged in the early 1980s, also published a photo in the Ole Miss yearbook showing several men with their faces painted in dark and light-colored paint wearing necklaces and holding sticks. The formal is the most visible ritual in which the fraternity known as KA - its members, KAs - founded after the end of the Civil War reveres the Confederacy. Like every other college student, he did attend costume formals and other parties, and across America, Kappa Alpha’s costume formal is traditionally called Old South in honor of the civil war veteran who founded the fraternity in the 1800s.” Reeves was a member of Kappa Alpha Order. When reporters asked Reeves’ office about the photos earlier today, his spokeswoman, Laura Hipp, responded with a statement: “As a quick Google search will show, Lt. It is unclear whether Reeves is in any of those photos, but he can be seen clearly in another photo posing with an unidentified man as well as in a composite of fraternity chapter members. A spokeswoman for Hood said he is not pictured. It is unclear whether Reeves is in the photo. Tate Reeves (top) and Attorney General Jim Hood (bottom). Yearbooks photos from fraternity pages of Lt. Another photo on the fraternity page features a group of men dressed as Confederate soldiers and planters, one of whom is waving a Confederate banner. ![]() The photos include one of three members with their faces painted, one wearing dark-colored face paint and the stars-and-bars pattern of the Confederate battle flag. ![]()
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