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Boyd Rusia Rush (July 4, 1895 – January 24, 1964) was an American upholsterer who was the recipient of the world's first heart transplant on January 24, 1964, at University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. Furthermore, Boyd's doctor James D. Hardy used a chimpanzee heart since no human donor heart was readily available ...
Opened in 1950 as Holmes County Community Hospital. Name changed to Holmes County Hospital in 1981, then UMMC Holmes County. [49] University of Mississippi Medical Center: Jackson: Hinds: 698: Level I: No: Walthall County General Hospital: Tylertown: Walthall: 25: Level IV: Yes: Wayne General Hospital: Waynesboro: Wayne: 49: Level IV: No: West ...
Jackson schools integrated by law as per Derek Jerome Singleton vs. the Jackson Public School District, decided in 1969. [ 5 ] In August 2015, smoke from a fire in a nearby hotel, as well as water resulting from the incident, damaged the Central High building, so the Mississippi Department of Education temporarily moved its headquarters to the ...
South Main Street, Grenada Grenada Depot, c. 1910. Grenada was formed in 1836, after federal removal of the Choctaw people who had previously occupied this territory. It was the result of the union of the two adjacent towns (separated by the present-day Line Street) of Pittsburg and Tulahoma (or Tullahoma), founded, respectively, by Franklin Plummer and Hiram Runnels.
Jackson AAB Mississippi (June 1, 1943) Mississippi Air National Guard 172d Air Transport Squadron C-121, C-119, C-47 aircraft and 183rd Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron RB-26 aircraft at Hawkins Field, 1962, with World War II era control tower, hangar, and buildings
The Kaniya Fobs House stands in northern Jackson, in what is called the Elraine Subdivision. This area was developed as the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. The house is on the north side of Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, a few doors east of its junction with Missouri Street.
John W. Provine High School is a public high school located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.It is part of the Jackson Public School District.Nicknamed "Ram City", the school serves students in grades 9–12 in the West Jackson area.
Jackson College in 1889. Jackson State University developed from Natchez Seminary, founded October 23, 1877, in Natchez, Mississippi.The seminary was affiliated with the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, who established it "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states".