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E. F. YOUNG HOTEL

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1946. 500 25th Ave.

In the era of Jim Crow laws and segregated facilities, this hotel for black visitors was built at the heart of the African American business district and was part of a complex that included restaurants, a movie theater, and other commercial enterprises. It is distinctive for its organizing grid of cast stone, roughcast stucco panels, and sawtooth cornice. The two-story Fielder and Brooks Drug Store building, occupied as a Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) office by civil rights workers Michael Schwer-ner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman before their fatal trip to Neshoba County (see EM2) in 1964, stood diagonally across the intersection until it was demolished in 2014.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "E. F. YOUNG HOTEL", [Meridian, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-EM12.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 216-216.

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