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"The Strip" in Biloxi, Mississippi, was home base for the Dixie Mafia, and Mike Gillich, Jr., was the group's unofficial but de facto kingpin. Of Croatian descent and from a large, poor family, he had raised himself in the city's Point Cadet section to become a wealthy entrepreneur along "The Strip".
The Biloxi wade-ins were three protests that were conducted by local African Americans on the beaches of Biloxi, Mississippi between 1959 and 1963, during the civil rights movement. The demonstrations were led by Dr. Gilbert R. Mason, Sr . in an effort to desegregate the city's 26 mi (42 km) of beaches on the Mississippi Gulf Coast .
The Biloxi Dragway was a NHRA ... the strip operated under the name of the "Gulf Coast Drag Strip" from 1957-1964. [6] On May 8, 1960 an incident took place with a ...
A white mob chases wade-in participants off the beach in Biloxi on April 24, 1960. Clemon Perry Jimerson Sr., then 14, is pictured in the top right corner in a white swimsuit. Jimerson fled.
Commemorates wade-ins led by Gilbert Mason which ultimately led to the desegregation of public beaches in Biloxi. Dr. Gilbert R. Mason Sr. (October 7, 1928 – July 8, 2006), was a physician who was a family practitioner and civil rights leader in Biloxi, Mississippi.
Getty Images Biloxi, a small but important city on Mississippi's Gulf Coast, has been reincarnated many times since its founding in the early 1700's, but it has always remained the "Playground of ...
Between 1900 and 1930, it was White's wife who transformed neighborhood mansions, connected by pillared porches and renovations, into what would become the White House Hotel. James Love, Jr., owner of Biloxi's Buena Vista Hotel, acquired the White House property in 1940, modernized the buildings, and added a swimming pool. [7]
Biloxi Blues is the story of army recruits during World War II training at Keesler Field, the present-day Keesler Air Force Base. Biloxi is the setting of several John Grisham novels, including The Runaway Jury (1996), The Partner (1997), and The Boys from Biloxi (2022). A substantial portion of Larry Brown's novel Fay is set in Biloxi.