Some may have seen his face on the mural at Veterans Memorial Park, but many don't know the man behind the name Jesse L. Brown. A Hattiesburg native, Brown was the country's first Black Naval aviator.

Hattiesburg native grew up ... friendships were important to Brown's success Jesse L. Brown was just 24 years old when he was killed, but the Mississippi native made a big impact on the lives ...

HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) - Every month the city of Hattiesburg ... the city decided to honor Hattiesburg war hero Ensign Jesse Brown. "He defied the odds. And in doing so, ended up losing his ...

HATTIESBURG, Miss. (WDAM) - A uniform believed worn by Hattiesburg native and Korean War hero Ensign Jesse L. Brown will soon ...

Jesse Brown knew from a young age that he wanted to fly, and he knew that he would let nothing stop him. It was the 1930s, though, and Brown was from a black sharecropper family in Mississippi.

Jesse L. Brown in a letter to the love of his life, Daisy The path Brown chose had been an uncharted one. He was a boy born into a family of sharecroppers in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. In order to ...

HATTIESBURG ... aviator, Jesse Brown. The motion picture tells of a friendship that developed between Navy aviators Tom Hudner and Jesse Brown. Brown, who grew up picking cotton in Mississippi ...

Jesse L. Brown, a Hattiesburg native and the Navy's first ... The movie received rave reviews. Mississippi: Woman hopes father's legacy will 'continue to inspire others for generations' Brown ...

In the cockpit of an F4U-4 Corsair fighter, probably in late 1950, Ensign Jesse L ... the U.S. Navy’s first black flier. Brown was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, on Oct. 13, 1926.

"Devotion" tells the story of Hattiesburg's Jesse L. Brown, the Navy's first Black aviator whose plane was shot down in North Korea in 1950.