Historic landmarks within the capital city help demonstrate Black History’s impact in Mississippi. The Two Mississippi ...

The following fall, the federal government ended interstate transport segregation. Location: Jackson Mississippi’s State ...

If you can face the entrance of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson with intrepidity, view its contents with super focus and depart without a shaky voice, consider yourself strong-willed.

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an organization born in Mississippi, that was a crucial piece of the civil rights ...

For the second consecutive time, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson has been nominated for the best history museum in the United States in USA Today's 10 Best Reader's Choice Awards.Voting ...

(There is a theory in Jackson that Mississippi fell victim to its own propaganda; that is, there was so much publicity about how a civil-rights law could result in a decent American businessman ...

to Jackson, Mississippi. With Meredith hospitalized, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael and other civil rights leaders continued the march, often followed by long lines of ...