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The Mississippi Delta region has had the most segregated schools—and for the longest time—of any part of the United States. As recently as the 2016–2017 school year, East Side High School in Cleveland, Mississippi , was practically all black: 359 of 360 students were African-American.
In 1961, Watkins became one of the first Mississippi residents to work for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. JACKSON, Miss. […] The post Hollis Watkins, jailed repeatedly fighting ...
Rice court case involved an ethnic Chinese student in the Delta. The population of the Mississippi Delta Chinese exploded after war. Many young Chinese men from the Mississippi Delta served as soldiers during the Second World War, and many women from China married these soldiers and settled in the Delta as war brides after the war. By the 1970s ...
North Sunflower Academy is a private school, founded to provide a segregated education for white students [2] in unincorporated Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta area, between Ruleville and Drew. [3] [4] The school has grades Kindergarten through 12. [5]
Amzie Moore (September 23, 1911 – February 1, 1982) was an African-American civil rights leader and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta. He helped lead voter registration efforts. His former home in Cleveland, Mississippi, is a Mississippi Landmark. A historical marker commemorates its history. [1] It is now a museum and interpretive center.
If Greenwood Leflore Hospital closes, residents in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions in the U.S., will have to travel farther for health care. A Mississippi Delta hospital served ...
The Mississippi Delta tour was featured in the 1980s American civil rights documentary series, Eyes on the Prize. [29] In May 1997, Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone , inspired by the original trip, visited the Delta to bring attention to "race and gender and poverty and children in America."
Avalon is an all-Black town in the eastern Mississippi Delta. All she has now are memories. Hurt was 9 years old when her grandfather died in 1966. "My grandfather was the kindest, gentlest and ...