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1964 (film) (473 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to register African-Americans in Mississippi, the subsequent murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner,

James Cessor (133 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

free in Mississippi. He was among the small number of free African Americans in Mississippi before the American Civil War. In 1869, he was appointed a

Muhammad Kenyatta (1,334 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Democratic Party, which challenged the denial of voting rights to African Americans in Mississippi. In 1969 he was elected national vice-president of the Black

Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner (8,354 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. Since 1890 and through the turn of the century, Southern

Amzie Moore (998 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Moore was extremely influential in advocating and registering African Americans in Mississippi to exercise their right to vote as American citizens. Born

Prentiss, Mississippi (1,751 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

property, it was considered one of the finest schools for African Americans in Mississippi. The school at first taught only the elementary grades, and

Minter City, Mississippi (1,350 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mississippi, wrote about his experiences establishing schools for African-Americans in Mississippi in his book The Black Man's Burden, published in 1915. In it

Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument (668 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

developed as the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. The house is on the north side of Margaret

Wechsler School (1,188 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Wechsler School became the first brick public school built for African Americans in Mississippi with public funding. The original building was a two-story

Freedom Vote (599 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

1963 Location Mississippi Caused by Disenfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi Resulted in Submission of 78,869 ballots Creation of Freedom

Buck and the Preacher (2,097 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

on with their lives". Following the Civil War, around 1879, African Americans in Mississippi, Louisiana, and Tennessee fled to Kansas seeking work and new

Freedom Summer (4,420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

1964 Location Mississippi Caused by In 1962, only 5.3% of African Americans in Mississippi were registered to vote Formation of Council of Federated Organizations

Bob Dornan (2,962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

indicate he participated in voter registration drives for African Americans in Mississippi. However, a 1998 Washington Post article indicated there is

Booker's Place: A Mississippi Story (668 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Magazine article by Hodding Carter about injustice experienced by African Americans in Mississippi. He approached NBC, and the project was approved. He traveled

Norman Mauskopf (962 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Not Here, documents the musical and spiritual traditions of African Americans in Mississippi. In a review Graphis Inc. writes: "In his landmark documentation

Florence Sillers Ogden (1,163 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Clay. Ogden's father helped engineer the disfranchisement of African-Americans in Mississippi in the 1890s and her mother was a prominent socialite who authored

Mississippi (16,781 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

sharecroppers. By 1920, the third generation after freedom, most African Americans in Mississippi were landless laborers again facing poverty. Starting about

Freedmen's Bureau (7,275 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Capital in the Educational Initiatives of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862–1869," The Journal of African American History, 2002

Bibliography of the Reconstruction era (8,108 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Capital in the Educational Initiatives of Formerly Enslaved African Americans in Mississippi, 1862–1869," The Journal of African American History, 2002

James Alexander Owen (1,783 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

brothers were part of a small community of highly educated African Americans in Mississippi. His parents made sure their sons never stopped learning and

Charles Henry Thompson (2,470 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Jackson College. Since there were very few high schools for African Americans in Mississippi, in 1911 Thompson decided to attend Virginia Union University

Second Baptist Church (Los Angeles) (4,675 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Herbert Brownell Jr., to urge the federal government to protect African-Americans in Mississippi. July 12, 1961: Following a sermon by Dr. J. Raymond Henderson

William Thornton Montgomery (2,021 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

County treasurer, he grew disenchanted with the prospects for African Americans in Mississippi, thus choosing to test his fortunes in the northern expanses

Mississippi Civil Rights Museum (7,086 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

31, 2006. The legislative study ran into problems, however. African Americans in Mississippi, accustomed to exclusion from museum efforts, were wary of