“I was born and raised in Starkville, right over the hill,” native of the Needmore community, Harvest Collier, said. “In fact, on Spring Street, I sit on the front porch of my mom’s house. I can see the rim of the football stadium and on Saturday evenings I recall hearing the crowd – and the.
Despite living just west of campus, Harvest Collier had never visited Mississippi State University before he became one of the first Black students there in 1968.