Railroad town, earning it the nickname pub city. Today this southcentral Mississippi City is best known as the home of the university of southern minute southern mississippi and camp shelby, one of the countrys largest Training Bases. With the help of our comcast training partners, over the next hour here how they became a center for the Civil Rights Movement. Instance, weg, for had registration. Africanamericans could not register. Everything was still segregated. A lot of the businesses, restaurants, and hotels were still under these kind of old jim crow laws. Later, the story of a hattiesburg washerwoman who saved her lifes earnings and then gave it all away. She started out by boiling clothes and a big tub in the house. She would wash them, she would hang them up to dry, and when she ironed them she would put them out there as well. She started out by charging a dime, if you can believe that. From a dime i guess she went to a quarter and then maybe up to . 50 and a dollar. What was