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The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. Its mission is to document, exhibit the history of, and educate the public about the American Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. state of Mississippi between 1945 and 1970. [1]
Civil rights activism and prison reform advocacy L.C. Dorsey (also known as Dr. Lula C. Dorsey; December 17, 1938 – August 21, 2013) was a civil rights activist and prison reform advocate. She is known for her social justice advocacy work centered in Mississippi , specifically her efforts to address racial inequality.
The Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument is a United States national monument that honors Emmett Till, an African American boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 at the age of 14, and his mother, Mamie Till, who became an advocate in the Civil Rights Movement. The monument includes three sites, one in ...
The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum ranked fourth on USA Today's best history museums list.. The museum, divided into eight galleries, takes visitors on an insightful journey through the past ...
The Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum are admitting the public for free Feb 1 to honor National Day of Racial Healing.
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 Medgar Evers and Bob ...
National Center for Civil and Human Rights: Atlanta: Georgia: 2014 [107] National Center of Afro-American Artists: Roxbury: Massachusetts: 1969 [118] National Civil Rights Museum: Memphis: Tennessee: 1991 [119] National Museum of African American History and Culture: Washington: D.C. 2016 [120] National Museum of African American Music ...
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 ...