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Pig Foot Mary (1870–1929), culinary entrepreneur (Mississippi Delta) Robert Pittman (born 1953), founder of MTV, executive at AOL (Jackson) J. H. Rush (1868–1931), founder of Rush's Infirmary (De Kalb) Fred Smith (born 1944), founder of FedEx (Marks) James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), industrial pioneer.
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈmɛdɡər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP 's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the ...
Vernon Dahmer. Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer Sr. (March 10, 1908 – January 10, 1966) was an American civil rights movement leader and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He was murdered by the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan for his work on recruiting Black Americans to vote. [1]
Died. September 26, 1999. (1999-09-26) (aged 91) Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US. Oseola McCarty (March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1999) was a local washerwoman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who became The University of Southern Mississippi 's (USM) most famous benefactor. McCarty drew global attention after it was announced in July 1995 that she had ...
New Orleans, Louisiana, US. Education. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for. Painting. Walter Inglis Anderson (September 29, 1903 – November 30, 1965) was an American painter and writer. Anderson died from cancer November 30, 1965, at the age of 62. [1]
Born in Greenville, Mississippi, and raised in both Leland, Mississippi and University Park, Maryland, Henson began developing puppets in high school. He created Sam and Friends (1955–1961), a short-form comedy television program on WRC-TV , while he was a freshman at the University of Maryland, College Park , in collaboration with classmate ...
Myrlie Louise Evers-Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the 1963 murder of her husband Medgar Evers, another civil rights activist. She also served as chairwoman of the NAACP, and published several books on topics related to civil ...
Burned in 1940. Hurricane Plantation. Davis Bend. 32°10′01″N 91°08′53″W / 32.16681°N 91.14816°W / 32.16681; -91.14816 (Hurricane) Warren. Built 1827 by Joseph Davis, older brother of Jefferson Davis. All primary structures except for the library pavilion (pictured) were burned in 1862 by Federal troops. 78001581 ...