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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Once unsealed, the records revealed more than 87,000 names of citizens about whom the state had collected information, or classified as "suspects". Today, the records of the commission are available online for search. [26] The records also revealed the state's complicity in the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner at Philadelphia ...
Joshua Hartfield, the last of six White former Mississippi law enforcement officers sentenced in the torture of two Black men in January 2023, received a 10-year prison term in federal court ...
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]
Occupying about 28 square miles (73 km 2) of land, [3] [4] Parchman is the only maximum security prison for men in the state of Mississippi, and is the state's oldest prison. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 2 ] Begun with four stockades in 1901, the Mississippi Department of Corrections facility was constructed largely by state prisoners.
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 ...