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Purvis is a U.S. city in and the county seat of Lamar County, Mississippi. [3] It is part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,175 at the 2010 census. The Town of Purvis was incorporated on February 25, 1888 [4] and was founded by and named after Thomas Melville Purves, originally of Marion County ...
Ralph Edwin King Jr. (born September 20, 1936), better known as Ed King, is a United Methodist minister, civil rights activist, and retired educator.He was a key figure in historic civil rights events taking place in Mississippi, including the Jackson Woolworth’s sit-in of 1963 and the Freedom Summer project in 1964.
Allen Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church is a church in Terre Haute, Indiana, United States.. The church is named for Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia in 1787.
Golden Triangle Regional Airport (IATA: GTR, ICAO: KGTR, FAA LID: GTR) is a public use airport in unincorporated Lowndes County, Mississippi. [2] [1] The airport is located approximately midway between the cities of Columbus, Starkville, and West Point, Mississippi, and serves the surrounding Golden Triangle region of Mississippi and parts of West Alabama.
Lamar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.As of the 2020 census, the population was 64,222. [1] Its county seat is Purvis. [2] Named for Confederate Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar, the county was carved out of Marion County to the west in 1904.
Delta Air Lines's first flight, from Dallas Love Field, landed at Hawkins Field in 1929. The new airport was named Allen C. Thompson Field (after the Mayor of Jackson at the time, who was instrumental in obtaining the land for the airfield), which remains the name for the land on which the airport is built. The airport was "Jackson Municipal ...
Missionaries John D. Hunter and Benjamin L. Clapp arrived in Tishomingo County in 1839. On December 26, 1839, Hunter reported they baptized six people. Seven more were baptized in 1840 by Norvel M. Head. Five more people were baptized on December 1, 1841, by elders Daniel Tyler and R. D. Sheldon.
In a Gullah context, the flying Africans are associated with Hoodoo spirituality, and sometimes perform their ascension through a ritual like a ring shout.Gullah lore also associates flying Africans with a magical iron hoe that works by itself, and a never-empty pot that they leave behind, [6] [7] perhaps relating to the influence of the Yoruba deity Ogun on Hoodoo.