Notable Events
Some notable activities that took place at Gulfside include the following:
- Constance Baker Motley used Gulfside as her base of operations during the court sessions to integrate the University of Mississippi Law School.
- Thurgood Marshall came there to work with other NAACP lawyers.
- Leontyne Price sang there because it was one of the few places where she could sing opera to her own people in the South.
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