It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many in the school systems ...
COMING UP IN JUST A SECOND. NEW TODAY, THE UNVEILING OF A NEW FREEDOM MARKER. >> THAT’S RIGHT. THE MARKER HONORS CIVIL RIGHTS HISTORY IN DOWNTOWN JACKSON. THE EFFORTS OF THREE BLACK ATTORNEYS WHO ...
MERIDIAN, Miss. — A Mississippi hotel that gave Black travelers safe lodging during segregation and once welcomed such notables as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. has been torn down after falling into ...
Terror and resistance: foundations of the civil rights insurgency -- "I'm here, not backing up": emergence of grassroots militancy and armed self-defense in the 1950s ...
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including ...
Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who ...
In 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and ...
Hollis Watkins, who was jailed multiple times for challenging segregation in Mississippi, dies at 82
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hollis Watkins, who started challenging segregation and racial oppression in his native Mississippi when he was a teenager and toiled alongside civil rights icons including ...
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