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He was a Sergeant in the U.S. Army during World War I, and was stationed at both Camp Pike, Arkansas and Camp Shelby, Mississippi where he served as a boxing instructor. He claimed to have gone 35-0-1 in 36 army bouts with the draw coming against the camp's heavyweight. He was the All-Southern Army Lightweight Champion in 1917.
The first such newspaper in Mississippi was the Colored Citizen in 1867. [1] More than 70 African American newspapers were founded across Mississippi between 1867 and 1899, in at least 37 different towns. [2] From 1900 to 1980, at least 116 more such newspapers were founded in the state, but increasingly concentrated in the larger cities. [3]
The Light and Champion, a news and information company, marked its 140th year of operation in 2017. It serves Shelby County, as well as Logansport, Louisiana. The Light and Champion produces a weekly print edition and a weekly free-distribution print product called The Merchandiser.
In 2014, Boone Newspapers bought several newspapers from Evening Post Industries. [ 7 ] Boone, who died of cancer in 1983, won a Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for an anti- segregation editorial in the Tuscaloosa News , where he was the longtime editor and publisher, about the admission of the first Black student to the University of Alabama. [ 8 ]
The Light and Champion, a news and information company, marked its 140th year of operation in 2017. It serves Shelby County, as well as Logansport, Louisiana. The Light and Champion produces a weekly print edition, a weekly free-distribution print product called The Merchandiser, operates a web site, www.lightandchampion.com, and a Facebook page.
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This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
McGhee was found unresponsive in his cell at the Shelby County Jail on Jan. 10 and taken to Methodist University Hospital. He died two days later, but McGhee Stiger said she was told by doctors ...