1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (405+ words) Three civil'rights workers disappeared in Neshoba County in 1964. Their murders exposed the depth of racial terror in Mississippi " and forced the nation to confront it. In the summer of 1964, Mississippi became the center of a national push to register Black…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (324+ words) Fannie Lou Hamer's rise from a sharecropper in Sunflower County to one of the most powerful voices in the civil rights movement is one of Mississippi's most defining stories. Born in 1917 in the Delta, Hamer grew up in a world…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (306+ words) Medgar Evers" path to becoming one of Mississippi"s most influential civil rights leaders began long before he stepped into the national spotlight. Born in Decatur in 1925, Evers grew up in a state defined by segregation and racial violence " realities…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (224+ words) Medgar Evers spent his life fighting for the rights Mississippi denied its Black citizens. As the state's first NAACP field secretary, he investigated lynchings, organized boycotts, challenged segregation, and pushed relentlessly for voting rights. His work made him a target…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (144+ words) A group of middle and high school students from around the state is competing in a national history competition. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History said the 26 students participated in the Mississippi History Day Contest last Friday at the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (258+ words) Hidden in the woods of Hancock County stands a two-room schoolhouse that once served Black students during segregation. Nearly a century later, preservationists are working to restore the Jourdan River School. The wooden building, constructed in 1929, once operated as the…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (394+ words) The murder of 14yearold Emmett Till in Mississippi forced America to confront the brutality of racism " and helped ignite the modern civil rights movement. Emmett Till's story begins in Chicago, where he grew up surrounded by family, friends, and the freedom…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (107+ words) The Jackson Association of Black Journalists held a Black History Month event Friday: A conversation with Mississippi trailblazer Reuben Anderson. The conversation was held at The Two Mississippi Museums. Anderson was the first Black Mississippi Supreme Court Justice. He was…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (364+ words) By 1963, Jackson was the largest city in Mississippi and one of the most segregated. Public facilities, schools, buses and lunch counters were divided by race, and the city's leadership refused to negotiate with civil rights groups. That resistance helped spark…...

5+ mon, 4+ day ago  (184+ words) COMING UP IN JUST A SECOND. NEW TODAY, THE UNVEILING OF A NEW FREEDOM MARKER. >> THAT'S RIGHT. THE MARKER HONORS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON. THE EFFORTS OF THREE BLACK ATTORNEYS WHO. .. Search location by ZIP code Civil rights…...