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The Message from Mississippi is a state-sponsored 1960 segregationist propaganda film produced by the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, [1] a state government agency established to promote and defend segregation in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision desegregating public schools.
The Virginia General Assembly, by contrast, implemented the Stanley Plan in 1956 and laws protecting segregation in 1958. Its first segregation academy was started in 1955, with a slew in 1959. In Mississippi, "all deliberate speed" programs weren't promulgated until 1965. Mississippi's first segregation academies didn't start opening until 1967.
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 ...
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]
Clyde Kennard (June 12, 1927 – July 4, 1963) was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi. [1] In the 1950s, he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) to complete his undergraduate degree started at the University of Chicago.
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 ...
The last of six former law enforcement officers who tortured two Black men outside Mississippi’s capital has been sentenced. Former Richland police officer Joshua Hartfield was given an ...
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation in public schools was unconstitutional. [7] Eight years after the Brown decision, every Mississippi school district remained segregated, and all attempts by African American applicants to integrate the University of Mississippi—better known as Ole Miss—had failed.