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Liberty was the location of the fourth-wettest tropical cyclone in Mississippi in 2001; Tropical Storm Allison dropped 18.95 inches (481 mm) of precipitation. Liberty, Texas is thought to have been named after this town, as numerous families from Amite County moved west in the 1820s to settle in the Atascosito district north-east of Houston. [7]
Mississippi Highway 569, N., 2 miles north of Liberty 31°10′48″N 90°46′47″W / 31.18°N 90.779722°W / 31.18; -90.779722 ( Wilford Zachariah Lea Liberty
Jesse LeRoy Brown (October 13, 1926 – December 4, 1950) was a United States Navy officer. He was the first African-American aviator to complete the United States Navy's basic flight training program (though not the first African-American Navy aviator), the first African-American naval officer killed in the Korean War, and a recipient of the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger in Liberty, Mississippi, who was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era. He had previously tried to register to vote and had allegedly talked to federal officials after witnessing the 1961 murder of Herbert Lee, an NAACP member, by E. H. Hurst, a white state legislator.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of March 13, 2009 [3] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [4]
Dan Monroe Russell, Jr., 98, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, natural causes. [184] Sol Saks, 100, American television writer (Bewitched, My Favorite Husband, Mr. Adams and Eve). [185] Hermod Skånland, 85, Norwegian Central Bank governor (1985–1993). [186]
Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South [1]; Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) [2]
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