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Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American January 10, 2024 at 2:08 PM In 2016, 50 years after the death of civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer, he was honored by the Mississippi Legislature.
Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American February 13, 2024 at 6:58 AM A Mississippi Marine killed in World War II will have a final resting place more than 80 years after his death.
McCarty was born in Shubuta, Mississippi and moved to Hattiesburg as a child. In her sixth grade, her aunt (who had no children of her own) was hospitalized and later needed homecare, so McCarty quit school, never to return. She later became a washerwoman, like her grandmother, a trade that she continued until arthritis forced her to quit in 1994.
Victoria Jackson Gray Adams (November 5, 1926 – August 12, 2006) was an American civil rights activist from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She was one of the founding members of the influential Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
In 1907, the Hattiesburg Progress was acquired by The Hattiesburg Daily News. When the U.S. entered World War I in 1917, the newspaper was renamed the Hattiesburg American. The Hattiesburg American was purchased by the Harmon family in the 1920s and was sold to the Hederman family in 1960. [2] Gannett acquired the newspaper in 1982.
In all, 2,977 people were killed, including 412 emergency workers in New York City. Nearly 350 of those workers were firefighters. At least four people with ties to Mississippi died on Sept. 11, 2001.