The many stories that youve just laid out for us and, of course the book itself, I think, is really important right now. Lightning Smith in the other car thinks it must be to police. She also was appointed commissioner of public welfareand hoped to continue her political career by twice running for governor. A number of Erie education, government, civil rights, health, and business leaders have family roots in the Mississippi city off Laurel. I n June 1966, a black civil rights worker in Clarke County, Mississippi, met a fresh recruit at the local bus station. Mississippi native Oprah Winfrey narrates a presentation on the 1955 death of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old boy from Chicago who was visiting family in Mississippi. Myrlie Louise Beasley was born in Vicksburg and raised by her grandmother, a retired teacher. Her philanthropic effortsgained national attention and inspired others to donate to the school. Newspapers nationwide ran photographs of the two boys corpses and that same river bridge. So I knew a bit about the story and, you know, the evil Sam Bowers. To recognize the anniversary, the USA TODAY Network is naming 10 women from eachstate andthe District of Columbia who havemade significant contributions to their states and country. Adam Ganucheau: Not that he needs an introduction for anyone here, but I do want to read just a short one just to get us primed for this conversation. You know, the one person whos pretty well-known in Mississippi, who is still living, is Judge Charles Pickering, who was a county prosecuting attorney in Jones County at the time. Some had not been told about it. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Sitemap | The myths could be just as muddy, the details dependent on the storyteller. Through your support we are able to shine light so that our democracy works as our forefathers intended. The women who were chosen were selected from a list of nominees all U.S. citizens who lived between 1920-2020 and made significant marks in thearts andliterature, business, civil rights, education, entertainment, law, media, nonprofits andphilanthropy, politics, science andmedicine, or sports. City Alerts | And then once I guess they trusted me, they shared with me these incredible journals. Don't eat chain restaurants, there. I had to one brief encounter with him. Curtis Wilkie, one of Mississippis best and best known journalists, came to Jackson last week to talk about his new book, When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and The Murder of Vernon Dahmer. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is a fraternal organization that promotes white supremacy. Others were so troubled that they had gone so far as to commit murders and drop out of the klan. We do not sell or share your information with anyone. He talks about quarrels and disagreement among the klansmen, their plots to target people, or home burnings. She served as an adviser or appointee to Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. The jail had suddenly been taken over by the klan from Greenwood, and Greenwood was a tough town and thats where (Byron) De La Beckwith came from. The work force in the mill was primarily black. (Robinson, Brett) . Laurel has been the birthplace of many who would rise to great celebrity including Lance Bass of the pop group NSYNC. Editorial cartoons and photo essays are not included under the Creative Commons license and therefore do not have the "Republish This Story" button option. No matter how complex your legal concern may be, you can feel confident knowing that we provide the effective civil rights representation you need. Its a quote attributed to Edmund Burke: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.. I walked in that jail, and I didnt recognize anyone. Evelyn Gandys life was one of political firsts. Ganucheau: Thats an incredible story. In fact, I wrote a book 20 years ago called Dixie, and it was my intention when I started writing that book that the book would open with the trial of (Byron) De La Beckwith, who had murdered Medgar Evers, and it took more than 30 years to finally convict him, but that was done in 1994 in Jackson. I thought it was just so very applicable here that, you know, you had a situation that involved certainly evil, but it also involved some very good people and two good men, who would have been Vernon Dahmer and Tom Landrum. Local people also recall vividly the later killing of NAACP leader Vernon Dahmer. Their mugshots now line museum walls, and an interactive gallery reveals the stories of many, including Georgia congressman John Lewis, then a 21-year-old college student. Im old enough to remember it myself. She went to law school at the University of Mississippi where she was. We got input from our communities and ultimately, came up with the list below. They botched one mission after another. An emotional video presentation explores the murders of 1964s Freedom Summer campaign to register African-American voters. All Rights Reserved. In the 1950s and 60s, home-owned and operated mega-businesses further diversified our economy in the areas of electrical transformers, poultry processing, metal fabrication, drag conveyor systems, walk-in refrigerators and plastic moldings. Existing civil service laws apply in a mayor On a June night in 1963, Myrlie Evers was waiting for her husband Medgar to return from a civil rights rally when she heard a noise from their carport. o Calling a special elect ion to fill a mayors unexpired term Ganucheau: Sure. Laurel Weather Forecasts. Historians continue to debate why Mississippi and her sister southern states chose to leave the Union. A native of Hazlehurst, Adam has worked as a staff reporter for AL.com, The Birmingham News and The Clarion-Ledger and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post and Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Adam has covered politics and state government for Mississippi Today since February 2016. Prices career as a soloist began when she performed in the Broadway show, Four Saints in Three Acts.. To acknowledge the role of violence in shaping our racial past is no guarantee that we can face honestly the ways in which it informs our racial present, but it is a place to start. This lesson introduced students to the history, strategies, and challenges facing by people in Mississippi in their struggle for voting rights in the early 1960s. But I also sensed the hope., An exhibit in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum looks at the assassination of American civil rights leader Medgar Evers (Credit: Mississippi Civil Rights Museum), You may also be interested in:How Hiroshima rose from the ashesThe town the world tried to eraseA secret war hospital frozen in time. The university established an endowment to fund a scholarship in McCartys name. But more importantly for my own personal background was, you know, the fact that I covered the final trial of Sam Bowers and had met with the Dahmer family and, you know, I spent been a lot of time on that story. The real history is there. I was approached in 2018, kind of secretively through a couple of middlemen, if you will, between the Landrum family and me. The mayor is elected at large, while the councilmen are elected from wards. Judge Pickering was very helpful to me in this research. But the museum digs far deeper than these major exhibits. In 1942, a new industry began with the discovery of oil in Laurel and today there are more than 150 companies providing regional service for oil and gas drillers. o Appointing a council member to serve as acting mayor if the mayor is incapacitated You know, it didnt start in 1960, it started with Jim Crow and all of the periods after Reconstruction. First female lieutenant governor in Mississippi. In 1995, Slaughter-Harvey worked for the Mississippi Democratic Party and has served on the Board of Trustees of her alma mater Tougaloo College, where she worked as an adjunct professor from 1970-2005. The car that burned the store down is pulling out and, you know, theyre the only two cars down there. Box 647, Laurel, MS 39441 | 601.428.6404, Pine Belt Regional Solid Waste Management Authority. In both of these pivotal moments, national attention and protest politics collided at a lonely river bridge, where the pervasive violence of the twentieth-century South rose sharply and tellingly to the surface. I mean, what all goes into writing a book like this thats sort of so journalistically focused. But until now Mississippi, a key battleground in the fight against segregation, had largely ignored its troubled past. Start planning your historical tour of Laurel and Jones County, Mississippi! You know, if theres anything that distinguishes this book from so many other good books had been written about this period, its that I hope it did it justice in kind of describing in great detail, the actual meetings and the actual people in it and their crazy characteristics and their incredible stupidity and foolishness. It means the inability of so many white Southerners to keep their fists, their clubs, or their guns in their pockets when a colored person stands up for his legal rights.. A touch screen explores the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a domestic CIA of sorts, which spied on citizens believed to support desegregation. To republish online, simply click the button, copy the html code and paste into your Content Management System (CMS). Black state resident James Chaney and white student volunteers Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman disappeared on a June afternoon. Municipal Court Judge. And I said, Thank you very much. And I got the hell out of there. I was a young reporter in the Delta and I cant remember whether I had heard of him before his death. I covered the final trial of Sam Bowers when he was convicted in 1998, and during that, I spent some time with the Dahmer family, particularly with his wife Ella Dahmer and Vernon Dahmer Jr. And they just had such grace through all of this. And during all the excitement at the Dahmers, it fell out and he left it behind. Clear all. Tree Tips. Hamer joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1962and led voting drives and relief efforts. It recounts the history of the civil rights movement beginning with the introduction of slavery in North America to the upheaval of the 1950s and 60s that eventually overturned segregation. Eudora Welty contributed much to Mississippis literary prowess, as an author, journalist and photographer. Laurel, Maryland had at least two Civil War hospitals. Its a famous quote. In some cases, the sentiment among the various klansman was deep resentment. We just keep it for stringing up [n*****s]. Whites had to mob blacks from time to time, he explained, to keep them in line. Medgar Evers work made him the target of violence and death threats. Wilkie: Well, I suddenly realized that I started on this project in 2018, probably two years before all these other events that crystallized and these movements that are going on today. Action Center | And at some point I came to that Burke quote, which I had always liked. As many as 1,000 onlookers gathered at the Jones County Courthouse in Laurel for his electrocution for the alleged rape of white homemaker Willette Hawkins. Included in the beauty of the area is its rich history as the town that timber built. While theres no definitive number of victims, a recent study by the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative found 654 racially-motivated lynchings in Mississippi between 1877 and 1950. Just north of town, John Otis Sumrall turned left onto a dirt road. Margaret Walker was an award-winning poet, author and professor of literature for 30 years at Jackson State University, a historically Black institution. City of Laurel, P.O. She fought for racial equality in and out of the courtroom, despite being beaten, shot at and jailed. o Investigating the conduct of any department, office or agency; You cant edit our stories, except to reflect relative changes in time, location and editorial style. You know, particularly people from SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and both Vernon Dahmer and Aaron Henry welcomed these young people to help them. She also spent time in private law practice. The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting is a nonprofit news organization which relies on donations to inform, educate, and empower Mississippians. Of course Aaron Henry being a close friend and mentor of yours. She also tried to run for Congress but was not allowed on the ballot. Click here to hear the entire conversation, which includes a reflection on the life and legacy of Vernon Dahmer from Mississippi activist Jarrius Adams. Despite death threats because of her race, she became the first Black woman to earn a law degree from the school. She later went to graduate school at Columbia University School of Business. Ganucheau: Did you have a chance to meet Vernon Dahmer? His Mason Fibre Company became the international Masonite Corporation. Some place the figure at eight, the prominent black newspaper continued, counting two unborn babies. In the wake of the latest atrocity, the Defender dispatched a black journalist to the nations new lynching capital. o Requiring surety bonds for those handling public fund so Council members are not required to maintain individual offices at city hall unless the municipalitys population exceeds 190,000 Myrlie Evers-Williams, who remarried after her husbands assassination and later delivered the invocation at President Barack Obamas second inauguration, says the symbolism is clear. LAUREL, MS (WDAM) - One of Laurel's longest sitting councilmen has lived through and even helped change the face of racism in Jones County. She married Perry Pap Hamer in 1944 and raised two adopted daughters. Indeed, the institution fills a gap. A generation later, during World War II, local whites again relied on racial terrorism to prop up an order they claimed was under unprecedented attack. And what did you personally take from sort of telling this story in a moment such as this? One character, Billy Roy Pitts, loved cowboy movies so he had styled himself a quick draw pistol, a holster, and he put his pistol in it. Now closed to traffic, the Hanging Bridge still stands. Old-timers across the county still spoke of a bottomless blue hole in the snaking Chickasawhay River, where whites had dumped black bodies. A flood washed away a railroad bridge and the soldier guarding it. The third person whos a major figure in the book is a man named Tom Landrum who was, you know, he was at the time a 33-year youth court counselor in Jones County. We had to choose from dozens of nominees, like Grammy Award-winning songwriter Tena Clark; pioneering women like Dr. Mary Clark, who became a physician in the 1950s, when few women were in the medical field;Abbie Rogers, who established a program for children and adults with mental challenges in the 1960s; and Olympic Medal-winningathletes like Ruthie Bolton and Tori Bowie. The first arrests made under the Civil Rights Act were made in Greenwood. When black activists in Clarke County defied mobs and memory in pursuit of political power and economic opportunity, they provoked a new round of violent reprisals. One alcove, shielded from younger visitors, flashes historical photos of men hanging from trees, along with their names, locations and dates of death. From 1976-83,Gandywas lieutenant governor one of the first women in the country to hold such a position. They were kind of vetting me and I was, you know, receptive to whatever they might have to offer. Both instilled in her a love of reading. Renowned photographer Annie Liebowitz was so enamored by McCartys story, she came to Hattiesburg to photograph McCarty, whose portrait was included in Liebowitzs book, Women.. A white undercover investigator sent to Clarke County in November 1942 spoke with a local farmer who bragged of his towns most infamous landmark. Did we miss a woman you think should be on our list? Its always fun to be with you guys. Accused of flirting with a white grocery store clerk, the clerks husband and his half-brother dragged the teenager from bed a few nights later, shot him in the head, tied his body with barbed wire to a 75lb cotton gin fan and threw him in the Tallahatchie River. Among its leaders were Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, the . The mayor-council form of government is essentially a "strong mayor" form of government made available by the legislature in 1973 and approved by the Department of Justice in August 1976. Bowers was born on August 25, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Samuel Bowers Sr., a salesman, and his wife Evangeline Bowers (ne Peyton), daughter of a well-to-do planter. As a nonprofit, your support is what powers our work. She was born in Hattiesburg in southeastern Mississippi, where she graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi. REVIEWS. After the 1942 lynchings, a black journalist branded the bridge a monument to Judge Lynch. The rickety old span, Walter Atkins argued, is a symbol of the South as much as magnolia blossoms or mint julep colonels. With its grim history, as well as with the myths and legends it inspired, the bridge reinforced white control and deterred black resistance. It uses multimedia theatres showing archival footage of trials, protests and funerals, and artefacts like hooded Ku Klux Klan robes, a burned cross and the Enfield rifle that took Evers life. In Meridian, a small city forty miles north, the undercover reporter asked a black taxi driver for a ride to Shubuta. The lawsuit was one of the states first successful desegregation cases. She was a pioneering conservationist who in 1932 helped establish what would eventually become the Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. And unfortunately, you know, theres not a lot of people still living who lived through that period. She became Mississippis first elected Black female mayor in 1976. So thats thats how I approached it. We work diligently to ensure that your best interests and personal rights are protected and upheld to the fullest extent of the law. Click here to visit Mississippi Historical Markers. No sir, the cabbie replied. Slaughter-Harvey later became executive director of Southern Legal Rights, and after that, director of East Mississippi Legal Services, which helped minority and economically disenfranchised people. As a journalist thats the stuff you dream about. But my one brush with the klan at that time was taken place in the summer of 64. You can only publish select stories individually not as a collection. And you know, that forms the basic raw materials for the book that I was able to flesh out with all sorts of valuable FBI documents that are available at the University of Southern Mississippi library. At the heart of the museum, a towering 40ft sculpture called This Little Light of Mine pulsates every 30 minutes with the soaring melodies of gospel songs that inspired protesters and became a soundtrack to the era. Later as a correspondent for the Boston Globe, he continued to cover the later days of the movement, and many of the continued civil rights stories in Mississippi and across the South over the next few decades. Accepts credit cards . Which was big money at the time. The river below the bridge flowed gently, yet Atkins predicted a long overdue flood that will smash and sweep away Shubuta bridge and all it stands for., MORE: New Report Documents 4,000 Lynchings in Jim Crow South. Thanks to the Mississippi panel:Cattie Beals of 2nd Chance Mississippi;Katie Blount of Mississippi Department of Archives and History; Daphne Chamberlain ofTougaloo College;Shundral Cole, an assistant U.S. attorney in the Mississippi Southern District; state Sen. Sally Doty; Hattiesburg City Councilwoman Mary Dryden; state Rep. Debra Gibbs;Bracey Harris of The Hechinger Report;Emily Havensof the MississippiGrammy Museum;Debbie Skipper of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting; and Petra Wingo of Hattiesburg'sCommunity Development Division. The American Civil War (1861-1865) left Mississippi in chaos with its social structures overturned and its economy in ruins. Tree Board. Experience a true Mississippi treasure From its oak-lined streets to its lovely, turn-of-the-century homes, Laurel is a charming and gracious southern town. The lynching spirit means more than mob law, he warned. I felt the bullets, I felt the tears, I heard the cries. In the World War I era, on the heels of a three-decade campaign to disenfranchise and segregate African Americans across the South, vigilantes used brutal violence to deter challenges to white supremacy. . So he was one particularly bad, bad guy. 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