If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. In the struggle for civil rights, it always came down to Mississippi. The state was the site of some of the most notorious and violent moments of the movement, including the murder of Emmett Till, the […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. The murder of Emmett Till was the lightning strike that sparked the civil rights movement. As the late John Lewis said, Emmett Till was his George Floyd. The 1955 kidnapping and brutal slaying of the 14-year-old […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. These days Oxford, Miss., is best known as genteel southern college town, the former home to writers John Grisham and William Faulkner. It evokes the scent of magnolias, and the roar of the crowd at a […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. The film and best-selling novel The Help tells the story of Skeeter Phelan, a white Ole Miss graduate who collaborates on a secret writing project with the Black women who work as maids for white families in […]
If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may receive a commission. Read our disclosure policy here. Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration program that brought thousands of volunteers to the Deep South in 1964. Today you can follow an audio driving tour, the Freedom Summer Trail, one of the top things […]