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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.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf , gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
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.
He attended from Hattiesburg High School, graduated from Baptist-affiliated Mississippi College in Clinton and received his master's degree from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He was ordained into Baptist ministry in 1939 in Richton, Mississippi. [1] Cothen died on 19 May 2017 in Ridgeland, Mississippi, at the age of ninety-six. [2] [3]
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.
This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Mississippi. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867. [1] More than 70 African American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns. [2]