Early Years and Education
Peoples was born and reared in the small town of Guin in Marion County in northwestern Alabama. After his graduation from Guin High School, he worked for the Birmingham Post in Birmingham, Alabama. He then served during World War II in the United States Army Air Corps, the forerunner to the United States Air Force.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern State University (then College) in Natchitoches. He obtained his Master of Arts degree in history from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. Thereafter, he taught history in junior or senior high school for fifteen years—in Nashville, Tennessee, Winnsboro, the seat of Franklin Parish, and then Ruston High School. He did not become a professor at Louisiana Tech until he was forty-six and was not required to obtain the terminal degree at that time to remain on the Tech faculty. Yet, he researched prolifically.
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