Ad
related to: history of mississippi in 1960 and 1970 book
Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
Don Whitehead's nonfiction book, Attack on Terror: The F.B.I. Against the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi (1970), details the events a week before the assassinations and concludes with the Federal trial of the conspirators. The book was adapted as a two-part television movie in 1975.
Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a historic district and neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, known as a hub for Black-owned businesses up until the 1970s.. Named after a family that lived and had businesses on that street for four generations, [2] the street became a flourishing business area after the imposition of legal segregation under Jim Cr
Late Millsaps professor wrote truthfully Mississippi's race relations in textbook.
Board of Education case striking down segregated school systems, in the mid-1960s Mississippi still maintained separate and unequal white and "colored" school systems. On average, the state spent $81.66 to educate a white student compared to only $21.77 for a black student. [ 1 ]
1970 May 14: Jackson State killings. Public schools desegregated. [33] Hinds Community College campus opens. [34] Population: 153,968. [30] 1970s - Queen of Hearts music club opens. [9] 1975 Jackson Mets baseball team relocates to Jackson. Smith–Wills Stadium opens. Lemuria Books in business. [35] 1976 - Jackson Camellia Society founded. [36]
In July 2022, the Mississippi Braves and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum commemorated the Tougaloo Nine while wearing 1960s era Tougaloo College baseball jerseys with the name of a Tougaloo Nine member on the back along with a presentation featuring Nine members. Living members of the Tougaloo Nine threw our ceremonial first pitches.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Pages for logged out editors learn more