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HATTIESBURG, miss. (WDAM) - Black Lives Matter Mississippi held a wreath-laying ceremony on Sunday for an important figure in Hattiesburg history who died that day in 1963.Clyde Kennard is a retired military man who served in World War II…

Clyde Kennard (Wikipedia) A stretch of freeway near the University of Southern Mississippi was named to honor a civil rights pioneer who was wrongly convicted after trying to enroll in the all-white university in the 1950s. The…

HATTIESBURG • A stretch of freeway near the University of Southern Mississippi was named to honor a civil rights pioneer who was wrongly convicted after trying to enroll in the all-white university in the…