Katherine Profiled in Southerly Magazine
- Katherine Egland
- Sep 12, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 3, 2023
September 12, 2018
When she was a teenager in 1967, Katherine Egland was one of a dozen students to integrate the Hattiesburg, Mississippi, public school system. As a member of the NAACP youth program, she spent her childhood afternoons with civil rights titans Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Medgar Evers.
