While many people enjoyed a day off Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, young leaders across Mississippi chose to spend it ...
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He Was the Youngest Freedom Rider, Now He’s Sharing His Story at a Mississippi Museum
Hezekiah Watkins— the youngest Freedom Rider—is still here to share his harrowing journey from a death row cell to the history books.
It is debatable whether the unexpected snow hitting the South, including Jackson, Miss., affected attendance at the grand opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum and the Museum of Mississippi ...
JACKSON, Miss. — It's been 70 years since the lynching of Emmett Till, a Black teenager from Chicago who was visiting relatives in Mississippi. White men kidnapped, tortured, shot, and dumped him in a ...
Mississippi is steeped in Black history and culture, from Civil Rights sites that spurred national change to the delta -the birthplace of the blues.
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Mississippi city formally apologizes to Hezekiah Watkins, arrested at 13 during 1961 Freedom Ride
Hezekiah Watkins was just 13 years old when he was arrested in Jackson in 1961 along with dozens of other civil rights ...
A grim artifact of the Civil Rights Movement has found its way into the hands of Mississippi historians: the pistol used in the racially motivated 1955 murder of Black teen Emmett Till. The ...
Amid backlash and boycotts, President Donald Trump addressed a private gathering Saturday at the opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson - instead of speaking at the public opening ...
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