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The Movement

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Meridian, Mississippi.
The Civil Rights movement in Meridian has a tumultuous history strongly linked to this area of downtown. From the 1871 Race Riot beginning at Con Sheehan Hall to the Freedom Summer activities of workers at the Council of . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sit-Ins, Pickets & Boycotts

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Sit-ins, pickets and boycotts were used to persuade white-owned businesses to hire black employees and integrate lunch counters. The Meridian Action Committee (MAC) was formed in part to carry out these tasks. Kress, . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Jewish Contribution

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Jewish merchants contributed greatly to Meridian's growth. The Grand Opera House (MSU Riley Center) and the Threefoot Building stand as evidence of their business success. Although Jews were well accepted in Meridian, their . . .

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • Entertainment • Industry & Commerce) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Federal Courthouse

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Meridian, Mississippi.
The Federal Courthouse in Meridian was the site of two of the most significant legal actions in Civil Rights history: the filing of James Meredith's lawsuit to integrate the University of Mississippi in 1961 and the infamous . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Education • Notable Events) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

William Ewart Gladstone

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, United Kingdom.
Statesman Lived here

(Politics) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Voter Registration

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Voter registration was one of the goals of the Civil Rights movement. In the South, poll taxes and literacy exams like the one given here at the Lauderdale County Courthouse were used to prevent African-Americans from . . .

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Jeff Anderson House

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Meridian, Mississippi.
This Tudor Revival home built in 1923, was the home of Dr. William Jefferson Anderson, found of the Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center. Remaining in family hands from his death in 1951 until 1992, the house was purchased . . .

(Architecture • Notable Buildings • Science & Medicine) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park (1892 - 1975)

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, United Kingdom.
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park commanded Number 11 Group Fighter Command which defended London and South East England successfully during the Battle of Britain Responsible for the hour by hour decisions of 11 Group New . . .

(War, World II) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ginocchio-Cook-Pedison House

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Marshall, Texas.
Italian – American business leader Charles Ginocchio (1844-98) and wife Roxana settled in Marshal in 1871; built this home, 1886. Architect: C.G. Lancaster, designer of County Courthouse. In Ginocchio household was a nephew, . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 6 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Allen House

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Marshall, Texas.
Born in Alabama, the Rev. Walker Montecue Allen (1819-1899) was a Cumberland Presbyterian minister, author, and teacher. He moved to Marshall in 1876 with his wife Eliza Ann (Handly) (1829-1902) and their nine children. They . . .

(Notable Buildings) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Early Leadership

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Pineville, Louisiana.
William Tecumseh Sherman, a graduate of West Point, was appointed the fist superintendent and a professor of engineering of the Louisiana Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. In June of that year, General G. Mason . . .

(Education • War, US Civil) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St John Lutheran Church and Schools

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Fraser, Michigan.
Side 1 In 1864, local residents asked Pastor Herman Lemke of East Detroit to help them organize a Lutheran church in Fraser. That same year, they built a small wood frame building on land south of 14 Mile Road. Each week . . .

(Churches & Religion • Education) Includes complete text, location, directions, 5 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Isaac D'Israeli

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, United Kingdom.
Author Lived here. Born | Died 1766 | 1848

(Arts, Letters, Music) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Dr. Robert Willan

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, United Kingdom.
Dermatologist lived here

(Science & Medicine) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Site of Marshall Masonic Female Institute

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Marshall, Texas.
School originated as Female Department of Marshall University, chartered Jan. 18, 1842, by Republic of Texas. Marshall Masonic Lodge No. 22 chartered the Female Institute as a separate school in 1850. Five lodge members . . .

(Education • Fraternal or Sororal Organizations • Women) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sam Houston's 1857 Campaign in Marshall

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Marshall, Texas.
On May 23, 1857, during his first Texas gubernatorial race, Sam Houston came to Marshall, the hometown of two of his most outspoken critics, Robert Lougery and Louis T. Wigfall, for a much anticipated debate against his . . .

(Patriots & Patriotism • Politics) Includes complete text, location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Freedom Riders

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Freedom Riders traveled through the Meridian bus station without major incident, thanks to negotiation efforts by local Civil Rights activists and police. Their experience was unlike that in other cities, where they faced mob violence and arrests.

(African Americans • Civil Rights • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

McLemore Cemetery

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Meridian's oldest cemetery was founded by Richard McLemore, Meridian's first permanent white settler, in 1839. Buried here are many of the approximately 30 victims who died during the Meridian Race Riot of 1871. The riot . . .

(African Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Notable Events • Settlements & Settlers) Includes complete text, location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Newell Chapel CME

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Meridian, Mississippi.
Newell Chapel CME Church was involved in Civil Rights meetings and voter registration projects. It was one of three original locations of the Head Start program. The church parsonage was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1968.

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • Civil Rights • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Joseph Catholic Church

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Meridian, Mississippi.
St. Joseph Catholic Church operated a coeducational school that served young black students from 1910 to 1970. The school also offered adult education classes. Former students include James Chaney and Polly Heidelberg.

(African Americans • Churches & Religion • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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