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Lynd is included in archives at Mississippi Department of Archives and History, [16] University of Southern Mississippi, [4] and Digital Library of Georgia. [19] Gordon A. Martin, a former Civil Rights Division attorney, judge and professor, wrote chapters on Lynd and the events in his book, Count Them One By One; Black Mississippians Fighting ...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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]