William David McCain was an American educator, archivist and college president. He was a recognized leader of the Mississippi political establishment and a leader in its struggle in the 1950s and 1960
From humble beginnings: The first five buildings erected on the University's Hattiesburg campus.
President McCain with Gov. Ross Barnett and Lt. Gov. Paul B. Johnson at signing of bill granting university status.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans is an American neo-Confederate nonprofit organization of male descendants of Confederate soldiers that commemorates these ancestors, funds and dedicates monuments to t
William David McCain
…southern way of life". He served as Mississippi state archivist, a Major General in the Mississippi National Guard, a longtime leader and promoter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, and as the fifth president and a major architect of Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi). McCain married the…
Elm Springs, the SCV National Headquarters in Tennessee
Calvin Coolidge at the White House with representatives of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1923.
Title pages of The Ku Klux Klan or Invisible Empire (1914) by Laura Martin Rose.
In 2007, this 1930s-era Jefferson Davis Highway marker was transferred from the city of Vancouver to the SCV.