Editing Saucier, Mississippi (section)

== History ==
Originally located on the now-defunct [[Gulf and Ship Island Railroad|Gulf & Ship Island Railroad]], the [[Hamlet (place)|hamlet]] established a [[money order]] [[post office]] and express office in 1893.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Post Offices by County - Postmaster Finder |url=https://about.usps.com/who/profile/history/postmaster-finder/post-offices-by-county.htm |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=[[United States Postal Service]]}}</ref> In 1900, the hamlet had a population of about 110 and had a sawmill, drugstore, [[confectionery store]], and five general stores.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Saucier, Mississippi |url=https://www.msrailroads.com/Towns/Saucier.htm |access-date=2025-01-07 |website=Mississippi Rails}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> In 1906, it had a population of 200.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Encyclopedia_of_Mississippi_History/1iQVAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Encyclopedia of Mississippi History: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions and Persons |date=1907 |publisher=S. A. Brant |page=609 |language=en}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], [[Axis powers|Axis]] prisoners were held at a [[Prisoner-of-war camp|prison-of-war camp]] in Saucier. The camp closed following the war and turned into a recreation area, with only the ruins of an [[Supply depot|ammunition bunker]] remaining.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frazier |first=Allen |date=October 25, 2023 |title=Mississippi housed Axis prisoners of war during WWII. Were prison camps on the Coast? |url=https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/military/article280939988.html |access-date=October 25, 2023 |work=The Sun Herald}}</ref>

Following the 1954 ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' decision, Saucier began to implement [[Racial integration|desegregation]] 24 years later, one of the last towns to integrate schools. The [[Ku Klux Klan]] requested to hold a rally on the grounds of Saucier Elementary but were denied by school board out of concern of inflaming tensions. The Mississippi Civil Liberities Union (the [[American Civil Liberties Union|ACLU]]) joined on behalf of the Klan, who won the lawsuit.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hamblin |first=Robert W. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Living_in_Mississippi/EaUxDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 |title=Living in Mississippi: The Life and Times of Evans Harrington |date=2017-05-31 |publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi |isbn=978-1-4968-1145-5 |pages=52–53 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Ball |first=Howard |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Taking_the_Fight_South/SFIMEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22saucier%22+and+%22mississippi%22&pg=PT140&printsec=frontcover |title=Taking the Fight South: Chronicle of a Jew's Battle for Civil Rights in Mississippi |date=2021-02-01 |publisher=University of Notre Dame Pess |isbn=978-0-268-10918-9 |language=en}}</ref>