6 Famous People Who Were Either Born And/or Spent A Significant Part Of Their Lives In Mississippi

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Jobs, You Really Can (And Do!) Earn An JAMES H. MEREDITH a prominent civil rights
Astounding $48 Per Hour. (Earn $100,000 Perfigure was born on June 25, 1933, in Kosciusko,
Year @ 40 Hours/Week) click This Link to applyMississippi.  Right after high school, he enlisted in
Immediately!the U.S. Air Force and served from 1951-1960. 
6 FAMOUS PEOPLEHe attended Jackson State College for two years
Who were born or spent a significant part of theirand then applied to the (then segregated)
lives inUniversity of Mississippi.  He is best known for
MISSISSIPPIbecoming the school's  first black student in 1962.
 WILLIAM CUTHBERT FALKNER  - he laterMARY ANN MOBLEY was Miss America in 1959,
changed the spelling to ‘Faulkner' the first from Mississippi to win this title.  She
(September 25,   1897) was a Nobel Prizewas born in Biloxi, Mississippi on February 17,
winning author.  He is considered one of the1939.  She also appeared in movies and on
most influential writers of the 20th century.  Hetelevision shows as Fantasy Island, Mission
has written novels, novellas, and short stories, andImpossible, and The Love Boat
was also a poet and screenwriter.  He was born JOHN RAY GRISHAM  is a writer of legal thriller
and raised in Mississippi,  The State of Mississippinovels. He was born on February 8, 1955, in
greatly influenced his writings – most of hisJonesboro, Arkansas.  The family moved
works are set in the state.  Some of his mostfrequently because of his father's work, finally
famous novels are The Sound and the Fury, As Isettling down in Southaven, Mississippi.  He
Lay Dying, and Light in August.  He received thegraduated from high school in Southaven and
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, for "hisearned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting
powerful and artistically unique contribution to theat Mississippi State University.  He also earned his
modern American novel."  He won two PulitzerJuris Doctor degree from the University of
Prizes, one for A Fable (1955), and The ReiversMississippi School of law in 1981.  He was elected
(1963)  Falkner's Collected Stories won him twoto the Mississippi House of Representatives in
National Book Awards.  And in 1987 the U.S.1983 and served till 1990.  He has written many
Postal Service issued at 22 cent stamp in hislegal fiction and non-legal fiction books.  There are
honor.  He died in Byhalia, Mississippi on July 6,13 films listed that are based on his books.  He
1962 at the age of 64.and his family divide their time living near Oxford,
 MEDGAR WILEY EVERS (July 2, 1925) He wasMississippi and near Charlottesville, Virginia. 
born in Decatur, Mississippi. He was an American BRETT LORENZO FAVRE is a football
civil rights activist.  He attended what is nowquarterback for the Minnesota Vikings of the
Alcorn State University.  Evers majored inNFL.  He was born in Gulport, Mississippi on
business administration, was on the debate team,October 10, 1969, and raised in Kiln.  His ancestry
played football and ran track. He also sang in theis French/Choctaw.  He was drafted by the
choir was was president of his junior class.  HeAtlanta Falcons in 1991, he then played 16
was appointed NAACP's first field secretary inseasons for the Green Bay Packers
Mississippi in 1954.(1992-2007),  he came out of retirement to play
He was involved in a boycott against whitewith the New York Jets (2008) and he has been
merchants and was instrumental in the eventualwith the Vikings from 2009 till the present.
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