The Library of Hattiesburg, Petal and Forrest County is located in Forrest County, Mississippi. This public library system is headquartered in Hattiesburg, MS, and has an additional branch in Petal, MS. The library began serving the reading needs of the community with a circulating collection of books in 1916. Later that year it relocated to the lounge of the first floor of the Forrest County Courthouse. During World War I, the American Library Association established twelve branch libraries in Hattiesburg
The Infamous Civil War Prison Andersonville The Confederacy established Andersonville, that most infamous of Civil War prisons, in late February, 1864. It built a stockade in west central Georgia to accommodate approximately 10,000 prisoners of war. As the fighting moved ever deeper into the South in the last year of the war, the expanded stockade at one point held nearly 33,000 Union soldiers. The termination by the North of the prisoner of war exchanges which had existed previously and the
1868 there were five-hundred and fifty thousand member of the Klan, also known as Palefaces, the White Brotherhood, the White League, Knights of the White Camellia. Forrest realized he was losing control of the Klan in 1869 and ordered disbandment, an order that was never followed. At one point the Senate proclaimed that in nine counties of South Carolina, over a six month period, the Klan had lynched thirty-five men, whipped two hundred and sixty-two people, heckled innumerable people, and irritated
Nathan Bedford Forrest became grand wizard, and other generals served as state grand dragons. But in fact, the Klan was decentralized and local; each state and community had its own violent story. By 1869, the Klan had helped terrorize black voters and overturn elected
by the white supremacists, in order to rebel against the blacks and the supporters of racial equality. Current group members of the Klan gathered in an assembly meeting and started the “Invisible Empire of the South.” They chose Nathan Bedford Forrest as the leader of the Klu Klux Klan. The Klu Klux Klan accorded to the aftermath of the Civil War Reconstruction. By 1870, the Klu Klux Klan
the South, also known as the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), has been a major role in shaping the views of the United States and the South, particularly speaking the eleven former states of the Confederacy. From significant national figures, down to the local county councilman, evidence of the Klan being involved in politics is clearly there. One also cannot rule out the amount of legislation that the Klan has affected due to its terrorist-like tactics. It can definitely said that the KKK not only impacted government
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Brown V. The Board of Education Education has long been regarded as a valuable asset for all of America's youth. Yet, for decades, the full benefits of education were denied to African Americans as a result of the prevailing social condition of Jim Crowism. Not until the verdict in Brown V the Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, would this denial be acknowledged and slowly dismantled. Jim Crow laws, in U.S. history, statutes enacted by Southern states and munici-palities, beginning in the 1880s
alongside each other safely. On June 10, 1864, the small Confederate army of General Nathan Bedford Forrest overtook the larger Union army of General Samuel D. Sturgis at the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads in Guntown, Mississippi. In addition to a total of 2,610 casualties, many Union soldiers became prisoners of war. (“Brice’s 1) Naviaux, Devillez, and both Rogier brothers—all from Perry County—were among those captured (Strahl 17). Their journey to Andersonville began here. Henry Devillez, prisoner