Freedom Summer: Senate Bill Would Award Congressional Gold Medal to Goodman, Schwerner and Chaney
WASHINGTON, D.C.–The Congressional Gold Medal could go to three men who died in an effort to register black Mississippians to vote in the summer of...
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Freedom Summer: Celebration of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi
by kim
JACKSON, Miss.–Mississippi was at the epicenter of the Civil Rights struggle in the 1960s and perhaps the most intense year of that struggle was 1964....
Freedom Summer in Mississippi: Goodman, Schwerner, Chaney Remembered
by kim
NESHOBA COUNTY, Miss.–The summer of 1964 was a violent one in Mississippi. The Civil Rights movement was in full swing and the whole country was...
Miss. News Briefs: How Far an Escaped Inmate Got, Murder Caught on Video
by kim
STARKVILLE, Miss.–You use your cell phone for all kinds of things now days. Wednesday, somebody used theirs for some evidence collecting as they witnessed a...