Mississippi Civil Rights Project

History of the 82 counties

Background/History

McComb, Mississippi, was one of the main battlegrounds for the struggle for civil rights in the United States.

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Webb and Dock Owens
The Owens family's interest in Civil Rights was well known throughout McComb. Mrs. Beulah Owens was secretary of the McComb NAACP.
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Fred Bates
Mr. Fred Bates was very active in the McComb Movement, especially at the time of the 1961 black school student walk-out in protest of the school principal's refusal to re-admit Brenda Travis. Mr.
C.C. Bryant
NAACP stalwart C.C. Bryant and his wife, Emogene, have lived in this home for more than fifty years.

Places

Flower Mount Baptist Church
On the third Sunday in June of 1870 sixty-five African Americans met under the brush arbor to organize a church. From 1870-1883, church services were held in an old Union army barracks.
Burgland Senior High School
In 1961, 15-year-old Burglund student Brenda Travis – along with 20-year-olds Ike Lewis and Bobbie Talbert – were arrested and jailed for participating in a sit-in demonstration at the Greyhound b
Greyhound Bus Station
The McComb Greyhound Bus Station is remembered by Movement people as a place of violence, of vicious attacks on black people who tried to exercise their rights to equal accommodations on public transp
Summit Street District
The Summit Street District was a vibrant area of African-American businesses.

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