1969: Choctaw court re-established
March 10, 1969: James Earl Ray sentenced to 99 years in prison for Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination
July 1969: Charles Evers elected mayor of Fayette
Charles Evers Inauguration Button
The brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, Charles Evers was the first African American mayor elected in Mississippi since Reconstruction.
August 17, 1969: Hurricane Camille hits Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hurricane Camille damage, Gulfport
The storm killed 259 people and caused $1.42 billion in damages.
Image: View more photographs of the aftermath of storm in the Hurricane Camille Photograph Collection in the Digital Archives.
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