507 Mobile St.,
Hattiesburg, MS

Sisters Dorie and Joyce Ladner were community leaders during the Civil Rights Movement. As teenagers, they joined the NAACP Youth Council and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and were mentored by civil rights leaders Vernon Dahmer, Clyde Kennard, and Medgar Evers.

This stop is part of the Mississippi Freedom Trail, which consists of 25 sites that offer visitors the opportunities to learn more about the Civil Rights Movement, honor important figures of the era, and sightsee across the great state of Mississippi and is part of the United States Civil Rights Trail. The Mississippi Freedom Trail is a program of Visit Mississippi.

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