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People, primarily female, often report being harassed while running for exercise. [1] Many of the harassment incidents and physical attacks happen during daylight hours. [2] In one nine-day period in 2016, three women were murdered while they were running, drawing attention to this phenomenon. [1]
Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South [1] Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) [2] James Chaney (1943–1964), civil rights activist [3] Vernon Dahmer (1908–1966), civil rights activist (Hattiesburg) [4]
African Americans in Mississippi. African Americans in Mississippi or Black Mississippians are residents of the state of Mississippi who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2019 U.S. Census estimates, African Americans were 37.8% of the state's population which is the highest in the nation.
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer. It also explores the 21st-century ...
Pages in category "African-American history of Mississippi" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Herbert Lee (January 1, 1912 – September 25, 1961) was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi remembered as a proponent of voting rights for African Americans in that state, who had been disenfranchised since 1890.
Louis Allen (April 25, 1919 – January 31, 1964) was an African-American logger in Liberty, Mississippi, who was shot and killed on his land during the civil rights era. He had previously tried to register to vote and had allegedly talked to federal officials after witnessing the 1961 murder of Herbert Lee, an NAACP member, by E. H. Hurst, a white state legislator.