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Monday’s Monument: Vernon Dahmer Statue, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Monday’s Monument: Vernon Dahmer Statue, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

by Susan | May 31, 2021 | Monuments

The bronze sculpture, created by artists Vixon Sullivan and Ben Watts, was commissioned in 2018 by the Forrest County Board of Supervisors to honor the man who was killed for trying to get blacks registered to vote. It was dedicated in a plaza outside the courthouse...
Monday’s Monument: Fannie Lou Hamer Statue, Ruleville, Mississippi

Monday’s Monument: Fannie Lou Hamer Statue, Ruleville, Mississippi

by Susan | Jun 8, 2020 | Monuments

A statue of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was unveiled in her hometown of Ruleville, Mississippi in 2012. Fannie Lou Hamer, a sharecropper who was evicted when she registered to vote, was an American voting and women’s rights activist, community...
Monday’s Monument: James Meredith Statue, Ol’ Miss, Oxford, Mississippi

Monday’s Monument: James Meredith Statue, Ol’ Miss, Oxford, Mississippi

by Susan | Sep 28, 2015 | Monuments

The James Meredith monument was dedicated in 2006 a symbol of racial reconciliation for a state that continues to struggle with how to move forward from a violently racist past. It commemorates the 1962 enrollment of James Meredith at Ol’ Miss, forced by Federal...

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