During the Civil War, the McRaven House was converted into a Confederate ... When Cawthon was 25, her family committed her to ...

During the Civil War, the McRaven House was converted ... When Cawthon was 25, her family committed her to the Mississippi State Insane Asylum in Jackson due to ongoing mental health issues.

As resistance to integration mounted, Florence Mars bought a camera and began to photograph thousands of subjects, including the trial of the killers of Emmett Till.

A federal appeals court panel incorrectly interpreted federal and state laws when it ruled that Mississippi cannot count mail ...

Remember, learning to spell Mississippi? Over the last few years as I have been reading, studying and writing about the work of William Faulkner and other southern writers, I have ...

Republican Donald Trump won North Carolina, capturing one of the seven heavily contested battlegrounds while votes in six ...

Mississippi is a diverse place that is rich in culture and with that comes a lot of interesting and beautiful places to visit ...

Upon graduation, she enlisted in the Women's Army Corps and was stationed in Okinawa during the Korean War ... New York Civil Liberties Union. In the 1960s, she moved to Jackson, Mississippi ...

Many of the white anti-busing demonstrators compared their violent protests to the civil disobedience ... University of Mississippi, began a walk from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi ...

In the meantime, George Jackson ... at the University of Mississippi in 1962. On June 12, 1963, shortly after President John Kennedy had delivered his first speech on civil rights, Evers was ...

The Justice Department will have poll monitors enforcing federal voting rights in 27 states, including Mississippi, for the ...