Mc - Comb, Mississippi Mc - Comb, Mississippi Location of Mc - Comb, Mississippi Location of Mc - Comb, Mississippi Mc - Comb, Mississippi is positioned in the US Mc - Comb, Mississippi - Mc - Comb, Mississippi Website Mc - Comb Mississippi Mc - Comb is a town/city in Pike County, Mississippi, United States, approximately 80 miles (130 km) south of Jackson.
It is the principal town/city of the Mc - Comb, Mississippi Micropolitan Statistical Area.
A steam locomotive on display in Mc - Comb Mc - Comb was established in 1872 after Henry Simpson Mc - Comb of the New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad, a predecessor of the Illinois Central Railroad (now part of the Canadian National Railway), decided to move the barns 's maintenance shops away from New Orleans, Louisiana, outside of the attractions of that city's saloons.
The rail center in Mc - Comb was one of flashpoints in the violent Illinois Central shopmen's strike of 1911.
During the 1960s, Mc - Comb and close-by areas were the site of extreme violence by KKK and other opponents to the Civil Rights Movement.
More than 100 black high school students in Mc - Comb were arrested in 1961 for protesting his murder.
In 1964, civil rights activists began the Mississippi Project and what would be called Freedom Summer, returning to southwest Mississippi.
SNCC members of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) returned to Mc - Comb in mid-July, 1964 to work on voter registration.
From late August 1964 through September, after passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Mc - Comb was the setting for eleven bombings directed against African Americans. Malcolm Boyd took part of COFO's Freedom House as a member of a clerical delegation to assist black voter registration.
On October 20, 1977, a chartered plane carrying members and crew of modern band Lynyrd Skynyrd crashed in a swamp near Mc - Comb, killing lead singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines, Steve's sister Cassie (a backup singer), and road manager Dean Kilpatrick.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 11.6 square miles (30 km2), of which 11.6 square miles (30 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (0.54%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 29.0% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 24.7% from 25 to 44, 20.0% from 45 to 64, and 16.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The City of Mc - Comb is served by the Mc - Comb School District.
High School, Mc - Comb High School, Business & Technology Center, and Summit Academy.
The Mc - Comb and the encircling Pike County region has three separate school districts, three private schools, and a improve college in the northern part of the county.
Alphonsus Catholic Church is positioned in Mc - Comb and provides classes kindergarten through seventh grade.
Mc - Comb is also the locale of Parklane Academy, a K4 through 12th undertaking private college preliminary school.
It is positioned in the central Mc - Comb region.
Southwest Mississippi Community College is positioned seven miles north of Mc - Comb, and northeast of Summit, MS.
Mc - Comb High School is one of the 100 National Model Schools.
Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Mc - Comb.
Woodie Assaf, weather reporter on WLBT tv (Jackson, Mississippi) from 1953 until 2001, making him the longest serving weather report in the United States.
Maxie Lambright, football coach born in Mc - Comb in 1924; coached at Louisiana Tech University, 1967-1978 Edward Grady Partin, Teamsters Union figure, spent his last years in Mc - Comb but died in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Dale Thorn, journalist, Louisiana State University professor, and press secretary to Governor Edwin Edwards, born in Mc - Comb in 1943 Jack Wardlaw, Louisiana journalist, born in Mc - Comb in 1937 According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Mc - Comb has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, United States Commission on Industrial Relations.
Peter Cummings, "11 New Bombings Continue Long Legacy of Violence In Southwestern Mississippi" First of three articles, The Crimson (Harvard), 30 September 1964, accessed 11 January 2015 Amtrak City of New Orleans - the Train Travels between Chicago and New Orleans through Memphis "Mississippi Blues Commission - Blues Trail".
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