- Forrest
Mississippi Civil Rights Project
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Background/History
Forrest County is adjacent to Jones, Perry, Stone, Pearl River, Covington, and Lamar County. It is also part of the Hattiesburg, Mississippi Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Nathaniel Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877) was a Confederate army general and an instrumental figure in the founding and growth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Victoria Jackson Gray was a Hattiesburg native that helped lead the MFDP's challenge to Mississippi's all white delegation to the Democratic National Convention of 1964.
Connor was the owner of Jean's Beauty Shop at 510 Mobile Street.
Fairley was the co-owner of Fairley's Radio and TV Repair at 522 Mobile Street and was the President of the Forrest County NAACP from 1962 to 1966.
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The Forrest County Courthouse was a cite of contention for many Civil Rights Movement activists in Hattiesburg. Although the U.S.
This building at 522 Mobile Street (the northeast corner of 6th and Mobile Streets), constructed in 1950 and still standing, housed J.C.
In 1964 — beginning with Freedom Day (January 22) and continuing through Freedom Summer — Mrs. Lenon E.