Hattiesburg by William Sturkey

Author:William Sturkey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Sometime in the following year, Hammond and Charles Smith began meeting with a man named Medgar Wiley Evers in a back room of the Smith Drug Store. In 1954, Medgar Evers was appointed the NAACP’s first full-time Mississippi field secretary. Part of his job included increasing membership and coordinating activities and communication among NAACP branches across the state. It was in this capacity that he began meeting with the Smith brothers in 1955.64

Community members in the remodeled Smith Drug Store, 1955. N. R. Burger is second from right. (McCain Library and Archives, University of Southern Mississippi)

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