Last summer, when the Supreme Court gutted a key provision of the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act, the decision dealt a major blow to the courageous efforts of thousands of civil rights activists who, ...
The irony of black voters in Mississippi rescuing long-time Republican Sen. Thad Cochran from incongruous defeat recently in his runoff against upstart tea-party favorite Chris McDaniel cannot be ...
PEABODY — Sophomores at Peabody Veterans Memorial High School attended a presentation at the school Tuesday morning featuring Mark Levy, a leader of a Mississippi Freedom School and a volunteer in the ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Click to view download files Click to view IIIF info This media is in the public domain (free of copyright ...
Produced for the PBS series American Experience, this potent documentary re-creates an America most of us are lucky never to have experienced: the apartheid government of the state of Mississippi, ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Materials related to the Civil Rights struggle, voter registration drive in Holly Springs, summer 1964: includes diaries, correspondence, business ...
A new Mississippi Freedom Trail marker was unveiled in southwest Mississippi.On Monday, Visit Mississippi and the Mississippi Humanities Council unveiled the marker in Centreville.It honors civil ...
On Saturday, President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 recipients, including a posthumous award to Mississippi Civil Rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer who died in 1977. The Delta ...
Results that may be inaccessible to you are currently showing.
Hide inaccessible results
Feedback