Mississippi

Today in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer

October 6, 2017 By Special to People’s World

On this day 100 years ago, October 6, 1917, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Miss.

Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings

June 24, 2005 By Combined Sources

On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...

Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds

March 4, 2005 By Tim Wheeler

Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...