Tag: McComb
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July 5, 1964 in McComb, MS
On July 5, 1964, dynamite went off at a house on 702 Wall Street in McComb, Mississippi. Four different documents tell a piece of what occurred that night. Civil rights workers used the home as a gathering place for the Movement and conducted voter registration work. Willie May Cotten owned the property and leased it…
Diary of a Historian 