Fannie Lou Hamer’s Presidential Medal of Freedom will go on display in the next few months at the Two Mississippi Museums.

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 ...

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, ...

LAUREL, Miss. (WDAM) - Laurel residents and representatives from multiple historical groups are fighting to save a home they say was used during the Mississippi Freedom Summer. “We are out here trying ...

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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 ...

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 ...