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The Hattiesburg American was founded in 1897 as a weekly newspaper, the Hattiesburg Progress. [2] 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.
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]
Florence News: Florence: 2018 Monthly Clay Mansell [5] Greenwood Commonwealth: Greenwood: Daily Hattiesburg American: Hattiesburg: Daily Gannett Company [2] Jackson Advocate: Jackson: Weekly Jackson Free Press: Jackson: Changed to magazine 2018 Laurel Leader-Call: Laurel: Daily Lawrence County Press: Monticello: Weekly Leland Progress: Leland ...
Lici Beveridge, Hattiesburg American December 19, 2023 at 12:23 PM Peggy Sealy spent her entire career in law enforcement at Hattiesburg Police Department, devoting 36 years to a city and its people.
The Hattiesburg American chose five places to see Christmas lights this year. You can even see some of them for free.
The purchase of both papers by Gannett essentially created a daily newspaper monopoly in Central Mississippi (Gannett also owns the Hattiesburg American in Hattiesburg, Mississippi), which still operates. Starting Monday, Dec. 4, 2023, the newspaper switched from carrier to mail delivery through the U.S. Postal Service. [4]
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.
Hattiesburg is home to the African American Military History Museum. The building opened as a USO club in 1942 to serve African Americans serving at Camp Shelby, as local facilities were racially segregated. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This building is the only remaining USO club site in the United States.