Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.’s only synagogue, evokes that state’s dark legacy of violence toward ...
Civil rights activists, youth organizers and religious leaders from around the country will travel south this week to participate in the Mississippi Freedom Summer 50th Anniversary Conference. Dubbed ...
Charlie Cobb Jr. (WJXT, Copyright 2025 by WJXT News4JAX - All rights reserved.) Charles Cobb Jr. played an integral role in getting Black people registered to vote ...
Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi ...
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 ...
The Freedom Schools curriculums developed in 1964 remain urgently needed, especially in our era of book bans and backlash.
Inspired by those volunteers seven decades ago, Wesleyan University and a network of hundreds of schools and allied ...
In the early 1960s, Mississippi’s segregated school system was designed to limit Black students’ futures. Underfunded classrooms, outdated books, and a curriculum stripped of Black history and civic ...
A Hattiesburg woman who set the stage for integrating the national Democratic Conventions was honored with a Mississippi Freedom Trail Marker earlier this month. The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker ...
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 ...