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The Mississippi Children's Museum is a children's museum with locations in Jackson, Mississippi and Meridian, Mississippi. The location in Jackson is situated within the LeFleur's Bluff Education and Tourism Complex, [1] and it was completed in 2010. [2] In 2021, the museum was awarded the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. [3] [4]
Jackson served as treasurer of the Natchez, Mississippi branch of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) until his assassination by a car bomb, which was placed on the frame of his truck under the driver-side seat. [1] The bomb exploded at approximate 8 p.m. on February 27, 1967.
Price died on May 6, 2001, three days after falling from a lift in an equipment rental store where he was working in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He died in the same hospital in Jackson where, thirty-seven years earlier, he had helped transport the bodies of the three slain civil rights workers for autopsies. [ 3 ]
More on: K-12 education, Medicaid legislation still on table in Mississippi. The Mississippi Children’s Museum is also expanding its after-school program, which currently serves more than 130 ...
Mississippi has a relatively large number of museums focused on Blues music (noted under "Music" in the type column of the table below). The "Regions" column in the table refers to regional areas with boundaries used by the Mississippi Convention and Visitors Bureau (but with neutral names), as described in the "Regions" section below.
The Mississippi Children's Museum's mission is to instill a lifelong interest in learning within its young visitors. Opening in 2010, the museum was created as a years-long project to increase ...
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Rainey was a member of Mississippi's White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan [1] and had previously gone to court for the shooting of an unarmed black motorist in 1959. [ 2 ] He was charged with violating the victims' civil rights alongside one of his deputies, Cecil Price , but was acquitted in 1967.