RESOURCES
Book References
- Meridian: The Queen with a Past, Volume I
by Jack Shank
Brown Printing Company, Meridian, MS, 1995 - Paths to the Past: An Overview History of Lauderdale County, Mississippi
by Laura Nan Fairley and James T. Dawson
Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History, Inc., Meridian, MS, 1988 - Called to the Fire: A Witness for God in Mississippi; The Story of Dr. Charles Johnson
by Chet Bush
Abingdon Press, Nashville, TN, 2012 - Lauderdale County, Mississippi: A Brief History
by Richelle Putnam
The History Press, Charleston, SC, 2011 - A Pictorial History of Meridian, Mississippi and Surrounding Area: 1800s-1960s
The Meridian Star
Heritage House Publishing, Marceline, MO, 1996 - Recollections: A Pictorial History of Lauderdale and Surrounding Counties
by Pediment Publishing
Battle Ground, WA, 2010 - A Pictorial History of Lauderdale and Surrounding Counties
The Meridian Star
D-Books Publishing, Marceline, MO, 2001 - A History of Meridian Public Schools 1885-1953
by Horace Macaulay Ivy, Ph.D.
Meridian, MS, 1975 - “The Meridian Race Riot of 1871”
by Katharine Louise McGehee
Honors Thesis, Florida State University, June 1966 - “Reflecting on a Legacy: Meridian, The Tie that Binds”
48th Annual National Council of Meridianites, Inc., Heritage Journal
Oral History Tran[INVALID]s
- “An Oral History with Hobert Kornegay,” Civil Rights Documentation Project, interviewer Don Williams, Tougaloo College Archives, 1999, https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_7f87b11b-f4d0-4dc0-a312-c9cd611876d3/
- “An Oral History with Representative Charles Young,” Civil Rights Documentation Project, interviewer Donald Paul Williams, Tougaloo College Archives, 1998, https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_a767d9e8-c548-47d3-8421-fcbbcd36a90e/
- “An Oral History with Obie Clark,” Civil Rights Documentation Project, interviewer Donald Williams, Tougaloo College Archives, 1999, https://usm.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/IO_d1bbe553-f20f-4a01-90f1-4823d10bcffd/
Newspaper Articles
- Ida Brown, “Council of Organizations Building to Be Renamed after C. E. Oatis, Jr.,” The Meridian Star, August 30, 2009
- “The Riot of 1871,” The Meridian Star, July 22, 2006
- Campbell Robertson, “Last Chapter for a Court with a Place in History,” The New York Times, September 17, 2012
- Ida Brown, “Celebrating Women in History,” The Meridian Star, March 9, 2014 (republication from February 16, 1992)
Web References
- Freedom Is Not Free: The Meridian Civil Rights Movement of the Mid-Sixties
- Freedom Songs (Multiple posts)
- Mississippi Freedom Summer: More Voices of the Volunteers
- Mark Levy on the Legacy of Freedom Summer
- Freedom Summer in Meridian
- Mississippi & Freedom Summer
- Meridian Race Riot of 1871 (Wikipedia)
- McLemore Cemetery (Wikipedia)
- McLemore Cemetery
- Freedom Riders (Wikipedia)
- Encyclopedia of Southern Jewish Communities – Meridian, Mississippi
- Historical Connections
- Congregation Beth Israel (Meridian, Mississippi) (Wikipedia)
- Wechsler School (Wikipedia)
- Wechsler School
- Former Carnegie Library Demolished
- Carnegie Branch Library (Meridian, Mississippi) (Wikipedia)
- Carnegie Branch Library
- Meridian Baptist Seminary (Wikipedia)
- Freedom Schools (Wikipedia)
- Catholic Meridian
- United States Post Office and Courthouse (Meridian, Mississippi) (Wikipedia)
- James Meredith Biography
- A Byte Out of History: Mississippi Burning
- The Mississippi Burning Trial (U.S. v. Price et al.)
- James Chaney (Wikipedia)
- The Council of Organizations