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Byron De La Beckwith Jr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and member of the Ku Klux Klan who murdered civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963 in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1964, he was tried twice on a murder charge in Mississippi. The all-white male juries each ended in hung juries, and De La ...
over 300 [ 1 ] The Ole Miss riot of 1962 (September 30 – October 1, 1962), also known as the Battle of Oxford, [ 2 ] was a race riot that occurred at the University of Mississippi —commonly called Ole Miss—in Oxford, Mississippi, as segregationist rioters sought to prevent the enrollment of African American applicant James Meredith. [ 3 ]
University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) is the health sciences campus of the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) and is located in Jackson, Mississippi, United States. UMMC, also referred to as the Medical Center, is the state's only academic medical center. UMMC houses seven health science schools: Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Health ...
A Mississippi mother was shot in the head after police opened fire during a car chase. Jon Schuppe and Bracey Harris. Updated December 22, 2023 at 3:12 PM. JACKSON, Miss. — The last thing ...
Rankin County torture incident. On January 24, 2023, six white law enforcement officers, five from the Rankin County Sheriff's Office and one from the Richland Police Department, tortured two black men, Michael Jenkins and Eddie Parker, at a home in Braxton, Mississippi. Police were called to the home by a white neighbor who reported that ...
James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is an American civil rights activist, writer, political adviser, and United States Air Force veteran who became, in 1962, the first African-American student admitted to the racially segregated University of Mississippi after the intervention of the federal government (an event that was a flashpoint in the civil rights movement). [1]
Thomas E. Dobbs III is an American physician currently serving as dean of the John D. Bower School of Population Health at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. [2] Dobbs previously served as State Health Officer of Mississippi, where he became widely known as the namesake of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization landmark ...
The mother of a University of Southern Mississippi football player who was found fatally shot in his car this week said he would call her every day after practice to check in and that he had no ...