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Obituary, Lt. Gen. Glenn D. Walker Archived 2016-04-18 at the Wayback Machine. Franklin County Times (Russellville, AL). May 6, 2002. Obituary, Margaret Hays Walker Archived 2016-04-19 at the Wayback Machine. The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS). June 18, 2007.
Historically, both newspapers, The Clarion-Ledger and the Jackson Daily News, were openly and unashamedly racist, supporting white supremacy. In 1890, after Mississippi Democrats adopted a new state constitution designed to disenfranchise black voters by making voter registration and voting more difficult, The Clarion-Ledger applauded the move, stating:
Frank Ervin Melton (March 19, 1949 – May 7, 2009) [1] was the mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, United States, from 4 July 2005 until his death on 7 May 2009.Melton, an African American, defeated the city's first black mayor Harvey Johnson, Jr. Melton won 63 percent of the vote in the Democratic primary against Johnson, who had served two terms.
In November 2005, Pat Fordice resigned as the city of Jackson's interim head of Human and Cultural Services. At the time, she indicated that the full-time position was more demanding than she believed she could handle. She was also a co-host of Woman to Woman, with Juanita Sims Doty, on Mississippi Public Broadcasting.
Woodrow Assaf (March 15, 1917 − November 13, 2009) [1] was an American weatherman who worked for many years in Jackson, Mississippi.He worked at WLBT, the NBC television network affiliate in Jackson, from 1953 to 2001, and after his retirement he was reported to be the weatherman with the second longest tenure at the same station in U.S. broadcasting history.
My response: I remember interviewing “The Bear” in 1977 after a game in Athens, Georgia, when I was a columnist at the Jackson (Mississippi) Clarion-Ledger.
The hotel opened its doors on May 1, 1922. The Clarion-Ledger, Jackson's newspaper, dedicated two pages of its April 30th Sunday edition to the opening of the five-storey hotel, which was described the first fire-proof building in the state of Mississippi. [1] The hotel opened with 124 rooms, all boasting an electric fan. [2]
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