Where was the civil-rights law ... the Summer Project believe that some of those involved in it welcome the antagonism of Mississippi whites as the best way to get large-scale federal ...

COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an ...

Their assignment was to interview civil rights activists throughout the Mississippi Delta, weaving together personal stories with old photos and other artifacts that describe this era in American ...

Emmett Till was murdered 64 years ago. Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett Till left Chicago for ...

Hamer is the 11th person from Mississippi to receive the award. The Delta native is known as one of the most important voices in the Civil Rights Movement. Doris Hamer Richardson, the niece of ...

It ended at the state Capitol, where an estimated 15,000 people gathered for Mississippi’s largest civil rights rally. This year, Meredith had planned to walk 200 miles (322 kilometers ...

Ahead of the spring semester, nine students traveled to Washington, D.C., and Jackson, Mississippi, as part of a ...

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 ...

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, Monday is also Robert E. Lee Day in honor of ...