On June 25, 1933 Civil Rights leader, James Meredith was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi. Meredith was the first African American student admitted to...
On June 23, 1940, Gold Medal champion Wilma Rudolph was born in Saint Bethlehem, Tennessee. Rudolph broke American female Olympic records by becoming the...
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS; February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American-born Ghanaian sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil...
The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders, or the Mississippi Burning...
