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"
  48^th 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

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