Founded by William Hardy at the confluence of rivers and rail lines, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, is today a capital of education, healthcare, commerce and the armed forces in the Gulf South.
American Biography, 45–47, graduation date and financial statistics on 46; Genealogical and Family History of the Wyoming and Lackawanna Valleys, 181–183; William Richard Cutter, ed., New England Families. Genealogical and Memorial (New ...
This volume is not intended to be a narrative history of Hattiesburg . A basic understanding of the rich history of the city , however , can help place the postcard images in this volume in an appropriate context .
Hattiesburg was dubbed "The Hub City" because of its geographic relationship to six great Southern cities.
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General Mark Perrin Lowrey, an ordained Baptist minister and veteran of two wars, returned to this corner of the state following Appomattox, dreaming of a more peaceful life and a better future for the young people of the area.
As this book afirms, the resurgence of overt activities by hate groups—both the old traditional ones (e.g., the Ku Klux Klan) and the new ones (e.g., the Skin Heads)—however much the hard work and sacrifices of the modern civil rights ...
No one in an office on 16th Avenue South could have , or would have , written a song like “ Margaritaville ” —or “ El Paso " by Marty Robbins ( written while driving through the night to Texas ) , to cite a similar example of an ...
The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights
Afterward, agents found it increasingly difficult to draw Klansmen into conversations. They had hoped to interview Mordaunt Hamilton of the Forrest County Klavern because informants insisted that ...