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

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 ...

Civil rights champions have diverse college journeys. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. may be the most recognized civil rights leader in U.S. history, but across many decades, numerous Black activists ...

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

15, 1963. It was also inspired in part by the racially motivated murder that same year in Jackson, Mississippi, of civil ...

(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 ...

The Eudora Welty Library, Jackson's flagship downtown library that's been shut down for years due to various maintenance issues, is coming down. Demolition started Thursday morning and is being ...

The Eudora Welty Library, Jackson's flagship downtown library that's been shut down for years due to various maintenance issues, is coming down. Demolition started Thursday morning and is being ...

The U.S. is marking Martin Luther King Day, the federal holiday set aside to honor the life of the civil rights icon. But in Alabama and Mississippi ... Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, both natives ...