Notable Alumni
- Theodore Bilbo (1877–1947), Mississippi State Senator, Lt. Governor, Governor, and U.S. Senator
- George Doherty (1920–1987), Louisiana football coach and educator
- Laura Vernon Hamner (1871–1968), Texas-based author
- William Inge (1913–1973), playwright
- Garnie W. McGinty (1900–1984), Louisiana historian
- W. Winfred Moore (born ca. 1919), clergyman from Amarillo, Texas
- Bettie Page (1923–2008), American Pop Culture Icon
- E. S. Richardson (1875–1950), Louisiana educator
- Martha E. Rogers (1914–1994) nursing theorist, creator of Science of unitary human beings
- Christine Sadler (1902–1983), Washington D.C. journalist, author, magazine editor
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“In one notable instance, where the United States Army and a hundred years of persuasion failed, a highway has succeeded. The Seminole Indians surrendered to the Tamiami Trail. From the Everglades the remnants of this race emerged, soon after the trail was built, to set up their palm-thatched villages along the road and to hoist tribal flags as a lure to passing motorists.”
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