[AUDIO] Bob Moses of SNCC Speaks on Mississippi Freedom Summer
Mar. 15, 1964 - The most extensive program of Negro education and political action seen in the South was outlined for Mississippi today...
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Apr 19, 2023
JFK: I Don’t Have Power to Defund Mississippi
Apr. 19, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured today with Lee Hills, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors) said today that...
Jan 29, 2023
Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett Frees Dying Negro Prisoner Many Say Was Framed
Jan. 29, 1963 - Governor Ross Barnett freed from prison today a Negro who once attempted to enter the all-white University of Southern...
Jan 28, 2023
Leontyne Price Performs for Integrated Audience in Mississippi Hometown
Jan. 28, 1963 - Leontyne Price (pictured) sang before an applauding integrated audience in her Mississippi hometown last night to raise...
Nov 21, 2022
Mississippi Senate Expresses “Utter Contempt” for Kennedy Administration
Nov. 21, 1962 - The Mississippi Senate approved a resolution today expressing defiance and “utter contempt for the Kennedy...
Nov 20, 2022
Ole Miss Student Harassed After Eating with Meredith, Leaves Campus
Nov. 20, 1962 - A University of Mississippi freshman who ate with James H. Meredith (pictured right) last Thursday has left the campus....
Oct 4, 2022
Meredith Faces Hostility on Mississippi Campus
Oct. 4, 1962 - Twenty-nine-year-old Negro Air Force veteran James H. Meredith went to classes today at the University of Mississippi at...
Oct 1, 2022
Walker Arrested in Mississippi for Sedition and Insurrection
Oct. 1, 1962 - Former Maj. Gen. Edwin A. Walker was arrested today on four charges, including sedition and insurrection, for his role in...
Sep 30, 2022
Sept. 30, 1962 - JFK Report to the Nation on Situation at University of Mississippi
Here is President Kennedy's report on the situation at the University of Mississippi. #jfk #civilrights #mississippi #olemiss
Sep 30, 2022
Barnett Gives Up, Meredith to Finally Enroll
Sept. 30, 1962 - Governor Ross R. Barnett, declaring that his state had been “physically overpowered” by the Federal Government, gave up...
Sep 29, 2022
Barnett Cheered at Mississippi-Kentucky Football Game
Sept. 29, 1962 - Hundreds of Confederate flags waved defiantly tonight during the playing of the National Anthem at the start of the...
Sep 28, 2022
Sept. 28, 1962 - Attorney William L. Higgs on Voting Rights in Mississippi
Sept. 28, 1962 - William L. Higgs, an attorney and civil rights advocate from Jackson, explains the challenges Mississippi Negroes face...
Sep 26, 2022
Sept. 26, 1962 - Bob Moses Interview on Challenges in Mississippi
Sept. 26, 1962 - Bob Moses, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), details the difficulties and...
Sep 25, 2022
Sept. 25, 1962 - Confrontation between Mississippi Gov. Barnett and John Doar of the Justice Dept.
Sept. 25, 1962 - Gov. Ross R. Barnett, in open defiance of a Federal Court order, prevented James H. Meredith, a 29-year-old Negro, from...
Dec 9, 2021
Mississippi Newspaperman Burned in Effigy
Dec. 9, 1961 - Hodding Carter (pictured), Pulitzer Prize newspaper man, commented today that when he was burned in effigy in Glen Allan,...
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