The land was originally owned by the state hospital and the Mississippi State Lunatic ... In 1940, Jackson had a population ...

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including ...

Crow era law in 2020 that had reduced the power of Black voters. Though activists hoped more voters would show up and election officials would be prepared, some voters in a county with mostly Black ...

The divided visions of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King David Doggett was long-haired and fresh out of college in Jackson, Mississippi ... you were living in the 1950s in the South, the ...

While life for Blacks in America was never a bed of roses, the post-WWII 1950s was a dangerous time ... killing of Medgar ...

The trip provides experiential education for the attendees, immersing them in the history of the civil-rights struggle of the 1950s and ... scene of a bombing. Jackson [Mississippi] was where ...

where Bernard LaFayette talks about singing in Parchman Penitentiary in Mississippi, which is where they put the Freedom Riders, when they arrived in Jackson, Mississippi. The singing I talked ...

Longtime Memphis reporter and journalism professor Candy Justice has applied her nose for news and her flair for storytelling ...

Begun in 1948 in the Municipal Auditorium in Shreveport, the Louisiana Hayride was the launching-pad of country music in the 1940s and 1950s ... a truck driver from Mississippi, Elvis Presley ...

Decades later, Kentucky, which finished the 1950 season at 11-1 ... With a 27-21 win in Jackson, Mississippi, Kentucky knocked the Rebels’ season off the rails. Despite opening the season ...

It has affected thousands of people globally in a scandal stretching back to the 1950s, when the drug was developed by German firm Chemie Gruenenthal. But today, Ms Jackson says she is thrilled.