Mississippi Civil Rights Project

Lamar Smith, a local farmer, was shot at the age of sixty-two in Brookhaven. Smith was shot in broad daylight on the lawn of the Brookhaven Courthouse.

Hollis Watkins was born in Lincoln County, Mississippi, as the twelfth child of a sharecropping family.

Judge Thomas Brady's pamphlet, Black Monday, outlined the White Citizen's Council's goals, including the abolition of public schools, nullification of the National Association for the Advancement of C

Jacobs came to Brookhaven in 1958 and helped to establish the Brookhaven Daily Leader in 1968. He was editor of the Daily Leader during the Civil Rights Movement.