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11 Must-See Stops on Mississippi’s Freedom Trail
From Hattiesburg to Jackson and beyond, experience monumental Civil Rights sites along the Mississippi Freedom Trail!
Celebrating Black History Month: How COFO helped the Mississippi civil rights movement
COFO. It stands for the Council of Federated Organizations and while many of you have never heard of it, COFO is an ...
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Fannie Lou Hamer
both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the dominant force in Mississippi politics, the pro-segregation ...
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19 get Medal of Freedom, highest U.S. civilian honor
Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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The Mississippi Election Today
The Jackson Citizens' Council, a white supremacy group in Mississippi ... especially since the Freedom Democratic Party is urging Negroes in many counties to boycott the primary.
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Hillary Clinton, George Soros, Denzel Washington receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Robert F. Kennedy; Ash Carter, a former secretary of defense; and Fannie Lou Hamer, who founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and laid the groundwork for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Fannie Lou Hamer rattled the Democratic convention with her ‘Is this America?’ speech 60 years ago
exactly 60 years after another Black woman mesmerized the na-tion with a televised speech that challenged the seating of Mississippi’s all-white delegation to the 1964 Democratic National ...
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Fannie Lou Hamer
both through her SNCC work and as one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the dominant force in Mississippi politics, the pro-segregation ...