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What a joy to spend time with Myrlie Evers on her 90th birthday! She is such an inspiration to every one of us. Please join me in wishing her the best now that she has turned 90, and I will pass your wishes on to her.

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#OnThisDay in 1970, Mississippi law enforcement officers opened fire on the Jackson State University campus, killing two Black students, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green. Police insisted the students fired first, but no evidence was found to confirm this. The

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Between vacation photos and cookout invitations posted on their private text thread, a group of Mississippi sheriff’s deputies who called themselves the Goon Squad traded pictures of rotting corpses and joked about rape and shocking people with Tasers. They did it all in front

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60 years ago today, Mississippi @NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers, a #WW2 veteran who fought in Normandy, was murdered outside his home in Jackson. His case was reopened in 1989, & his assassin finally convicted 5 years later. #history

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On this day in 1963, NAACP leader Medgar Evers was assassinated outside his home in Jackson, Mississippi.

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To Kill a Mockingbird: The book to read is not the one that thinks for you, but the one that makes you think. #SaturdayMorning

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@KeneAkers The end of my encounter with Byron De La Beckwith when I interviewed him in April 1990, eight months before he was indicted again for Medgar Evers' murder. From "Race Against Time" ...

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60 years ago today, Fannie Lou Hamer drew national attention when she testified before the Democratic National Convention’s credentials committee, challenging Mississippi’s all-white delegation. She detailed violence against Black Americans in Mississippi, including her own

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#OnThisDay in 1961, nine Black students from Tougaloo College entered the all-white Jackson Municipal Library and sat down. Police arrived and ordered them to go to the “colored” library, but when they refused, police arrested them. On the day of their trial, Jackson State

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Remembering Medgar Evers on the 57th anniversary of his assassination in Jackson, Mississippi ... "Freedom has never been free ..."

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#HappyBirthday James Meredith, who is 90 today! On this same day, in 1962, an appeals court ordered his admission as the 1st known Black student to the University of Mississippi. #history

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Emmett Till historical sign riddled with bullets. Another spray-painted "KKK."

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Remembering Medgar Evers and his courage on the day that his family will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor.

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#OnThisDay in 1949, Ada Sipuel Fisher became the first Black woman to attend an all-white law school in the South when she entered the University of Oklahoma Law School. Her parents had survived the 1921 Tulsa massacre, and her family moved to Chickasha, where she was born and

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#OnThisDay 1884, Ida B. Wells was riding a train when a railroad conductor ordered her to move from the “all-white” car. She refused. She became a crusading journalist, who exposed the endless lynchings of Black Americans & helped found the @NAACP .

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Excited to announce the launching of the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. @ProPublica has just given us our first grant. Very exciting.

After 3 decades at Clarion Ledger, Jerry Mitchell is leaving to run journalism nonprofit

Jerry Mitchell helped start Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, leaving Clarion Ledger

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Sixty years ago today, Johnnie Mae Chappell was going to buy her children ice cream in Jacksonville FL when white men, looking for someone to kill, murdered her. She was walking to buy ice cream when she realized she had dropped her wallet. As she retraced her steps along a

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A message from Lisa McNair, whose sister was 1 of the 4 little girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing: CALLING ALL CHURCHES AND PLACES OF WORSHIP!! I am asking that each house of worship ring your bells at 10:22 a.m. on next Friday, September 15, 2023 which is 60 years

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60 years ago today, a group of more than 20 Klansmen killed three civil rights workers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, south of Philadelphia, Mississippi. The three men had come as a part of 1964's Freedom Summer to register Black voters and work in the civil

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Happy Birthday, James Meredith! He was born #OnThisDay in 1933 in Kosciusko, Mississippi. That same day, in 1962, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered his admission as the first known Black student to the University of Mississippi. Four years later, he started his

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#OnThisDay in 1946, Medgar Evers celebrated his 21st birthday by going with six other World War II veterans, including his brother, Charles, to try to vote in Decatur, Mississippi, only to be turned away by an armed White mob. That day, Medgar Evers vowed that he would never be

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#OnThisDay in 1956, Fred Shuttlesworth somehow survived the KKK bombing that took out his home next to the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. An arriving policeman advised him to leave town fast. In the “Eyes on the Prize” documentary, Shuttlesworth quoted himself as

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@nathaliejacoby1 Tons of them, from Casablanca to Notorious to It's a Wonderful Life to Sunset Boulevard to Psycho to Raging Bull to Schindler's List. Many of the best films ever made were B&W. Why ignore them?

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56 yrs ago today, KKK murdered James Chaney, Andy Goodman & Mickey Schwerner in Mississippi. #OTD 2005, Chaney's daughter, Angela Lewis, saw the Klan leader who orchestrated their killings (Edgar Ray Killen) finally convicted. #SundayMorning #history

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40 yrs ago today, jury convicted Bob Chambliss in #KKK ’s 1963 bombing of Birmingham church, killing 4 little girls. @GDouglasJones skipped classes to watch trial. Later successfully prosecuted 2 more Klansmen in case.

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#OnThisDay in 1908, Black philanthropist Oseola McCarty was born in rural Mississippi and grew up in Hattiesburg, where she was raised on a farm by her grandmother, aunt and mother. She dropped out of school to help care for her ailing aunt and began washing and ironing for

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#OnThisDay in 1964, a group of Black men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, led by Earnest “Chilly Willy” Thomas and Frederick Douglas Kirkpatrick, founded The Deacons for Defense and Justice to protect civil rights activists. The deacons, most of them veterans of the Korean War, World

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@veganmcser You are correct.

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150 yrs ago today, Joseph H. Rainey became the first Black lawmaker sworn into the U.S. House, serving for 10 years in his South Carolina seat. In 2015, his portrait became the first of a Black congressman displayed in the House. #PioneersOfChange #SaturdayMorning #history

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#OnThisDay in 1961, 27 Freedom Riders, headed for New Orleans, were arrested as soon as they arrived in the bus station in Jackson, Mississippi. Many of the riders were sentenced to two months inside Mississippi’s worst prison, Parchman. Within a few months, police arrested

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#OnThisDay in 1964, Unita Blackwell became the Issaquena County delegate for the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which fought to replace Mississippi’s all-white delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. “We had no idea that we were changing the whole political

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#OnThisDay in 1942, longtime NASA mathematician and aeronautical engineer Christine Mann Darden was born in Monroe, North Carolina. NASA Langley hired her as a “human computer,” and she became the first Black woman promoted into senior executive service, the top rank in the

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Some people are now suggesting hydrogen peroxide defeats #COVID . When I interviewed Medgar Evers' assassin, he guzzled a whole glass of this stuff, claiming it sucked out the poisons that the government had put into his body. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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#OnThisDay in 1912, Charlotta Bass became one of the nation’s first Black female editor-owners. She renamed The California Owl newspaper The California Eagle, and turned it into a hard-hitting publication. She campaigned against the racist film “Birth of a Nation,” which depicted

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Happy Birthday, Myrlie Evers! Born on St. Patrick’s Day in Vicksburg, she had visions of being a concert pianist, but Jim Crow conspired against her and she wound up attending what is now Alcorn State University, which offered a minor in music. On her first day on campus, she

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I spent six hours interviewing the assassin of Mississippi @NAACP leader Medgar Evers. Afterward, he insisted on walking me to my car. #RaceAgainstTime #BookTwitter

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#OnThisDay in 1958: The @NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City, led by Clara Luper, began sit-ins to challenge all-white lunch counters at Katz drugstores. Those challenges spread elsewhere, & other protests followed. Luper was arrested 26 times. When she died in 2011, flags

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Sad to hear of the passing of Maxine McNair, the mother of Denise McNair, who was killed in the Birmingham church bombing. Her sister, Lisa, is asking for prayers for their family at this time. #SundayThoughts

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Hate to hear this. James Lawson, the former Freedom Rider who championed the nonviolence tactics used in the civil rights movement, has died.

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#OnThisDay in 1965, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party organized a one-mile silent march, starting at Morning Star Baptist Church and ending at the Mississippi Capitol, where lawmakers were contemplating changes in voting laws. Jackson police arrested the marchers, more

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A Mississippi law enforcement officer can be heard using racist & homophobic slurs & bragging about killing 13 people, saying, “I shot that n----- 119 times, OK?” JULIAN founder @JillCollen is calling for @FBI investigation & firing the police chief.

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Happy Birthday, Medgar Evers. Would have been 92 today. @NAACP #CivilRightsAct

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#OnThisDay in 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson nominated the first Black American, then-Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall, to the U.S. Supreme Court, saying it was “the right thing to do, the right time to do it, the right man and the right place.” But his push for a legal

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#OnThisDay in 1963, members of the Ku Klux Klan planted a bomb inside the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, that killed four young girls, Denise McNair, 11, and Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and Carole Robertson, all 14. Collins’ younger sister, Sarah, was

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Today is a good day to remember the courage of #WW2 veteran & @NAACP leader Medgar Evers who fought on the battlefields of both France & Mississippi. Assassinated 60 years ago today. A wreath laying is slated for this morning at the Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.

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#OnThisDay 80 years ago, Irene Morgan, a 27-year-old Black mother of two, was arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus for a white couple. When a deputy handed her the warrant for her arrest, Morgan tore up the document and tossed it out the window. Then the deputy

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#OnThisDay in 1942, Dorie Ladner was born in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She and her sister, Joyce, became involved early with the civil rights movement, working with Medgar Evers, Vernon Dahmer, Clyde Kennard and others. She and her sister were kicked out of Jackson State

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#OnThisDay in 1918, Katherine G. Johnson, a pioneer in space missions, was born in White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia. She began college at age 15 and became the first Black woman to desegregate the graduate school at West Virginia University in Morgantown in 1938. Johnson

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#OnThisDay in 1955, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began on this day. Most of the 50,000 Black workers living in Montgomery supported the boycott by walking, bicycling and car-pooling. The boycott was organized by the local chapter of the NAACP led by Pullman porter E. D. Edgar

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@yashar For many years, white Southerners called African Americans by their first names (or called them "boy" or "girl" or worse), refusing to use courtesy titles like Mr. or Mrs. or Ms. That history helps give further context to Ms. Angelou's remarks.

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State flag with Confederate battle emblem coming down in Mississippi. Myrlie Evers, the widow of slain @NAACP leader #MedgarEvers , weeps & says, "Medgar's wings must be clapping!" #SundayMotivation #CivilRights

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#OnThisDay in 1955, the Rev. George Lee was shot to death in Belzoni, Mississippi, after using his pulpit and his printing press to urge other Black Mississippians to vote. He became one of the first African Americans to register to vote in the mostly Black Humphreys County.

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#OnThisDay in 1781, more than 80 years before the Emancipation Proclamation, an enslaved woman known as Elizabeth Freeman sued for her freedom in Massachusetts. The odds against her winning her case before a dozen white men seemed impossible. Freeman worked for Col. John

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#OnThisDay 1949, Ada Sipuel Fisher became 1st Black woman to attend all-white law school in South when she entered @UofOklahoma Law School. She decided to become a lawyer after hearing Thurgood Marshall speak. #SaturdayMorning #history #TDIH

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#OnThisDay 1970, 11 days after @KentState shootings, Mississippi law enforcement officers opened fire at @JacksonStateU , killing 2 Black students, Phillip Lafayette Gibbs & James Earl Green, & injuring 11. A marker memorializes the tragedy. #history

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Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, the Allied invasion on the shores of Normandy, France, the first of many waves of soldiers that drove the Nazis from these shores. Medgar Evers and other Black soldiers were among those waves. #historytwt #HistoryMatters

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#OnThisDay in 1967, Fannie Lou Hamer, Unita Blackwell and others testified about the immense poverty in the Mississippi Delta as U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy and others listened at a Senate subcommittee hearing in Jackson. The next day, Kennedy and Sen. Joseph Clark from

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@ThatEricAlper This guy.

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#OnThisDay in 1961, more than 100 students walked out of Burglund High School in McComb, Mississippi, to protest the killing of Herbert Lee and the expulsion of student Brenda Travis, who was given a year behind bars for ordering a hamburger at an all-white lunch counter. They

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#OnThisDay in 1959, “A Raisin in the Sun,” the first Broadway play written by a Black woman, debuted at the Ethel Barrymore Theater. Lorraine Hansberry, then only 28, drew inspiration for her play from a Langston Hughes’ poem: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up

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Six former law enforcement officers who called themselves the Goon Squad face sentencing in Mississippi starting today, months after they pleaded guilty to federal civil rights offenses for torturing and sexually assaulting two Black men and a third white man who has remained

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#OnThisDay in 1957, Elizabeth Eckford, one of nine Black students, attempted to enter Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Unlike the other eight, she had never received the message to stay away from the school, As she walked toward the school, a mob hurled racist slurs

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#OnThisDay 1963: Fannie Lou Hamer & 9 other #CivilRights activists rode in the “white” section of a bus & sat at the “whites-only” lunch counter at the bus terminal in Winona, Mississippi. Police arrested them, & Hamer & others were beaten. #history

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On this day in 1963, Fannie Lou Hamer was jailed and beaten for defying segregation on a bus and at a restaurant.

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#OnThisDay in 1892, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells published a column exposing the lynchings of African-American men and denouncing claims that the lynchings were meant to protect white women. Her anti-lynching campaign came after a mob killed three of her friends, who had

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#OnThisDay 1955, #WW1 vet Lamar Smith, who organized Black Americans to vote, was shot dead on the courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Despite dozens of eyewitnesses, including the sheriff, no one was ever prosecuted. #Voting #VotingRights

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#OnThisDay in 1964, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, two 19-year-old Black Americans, were simply trying to get a ride back home. Instead, Klansmen abducted them, took them to the Homochitto National Forest, where they beat the pair and then drowned them in the

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100 years ago today, novelist, playwright, poet, essayist and social critic James Baldwin was born in Harlem. His work explored the themes of racial, sexual and class differences and discrimination in America. His 1963 book “The Fire Next Time” became a best-seller, confronting

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#OnThisDay in 1963, while returning from a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee training session in South Carolina, Fannie Lou Hamer and nine other civil rights movement activists dared to ride in the “white” section of a Greyhound bus and sit at the “whites-only” lunch

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#OnThisDay in 1958, Ernest Green, one of the Little Rock Nine, became the first Black American to graduate from newly integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Forty years later, the campus became part of the National Park Service, and the Little Rock Nine received

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#OnThisDay in 1917, Eugene Jacques Bullard became the first Black American combat pilot. After the near lynching of his father and hearing that Great Britain lacked such racism, the 12-year-old Georgia native stowed away on a ship headed for Scotland. From there, he moved to

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#OnThisDay in 1906, the Niagara Movement (forerunner to the NAACP) met at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, the site of John Brown’s raid. The group even conducted a barefoot pilgrimage to the site. Headed by W.E.B. DuBois, the organization called for enforcement of the 13th, 14th

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#OnThisDay in 1963, when James Meredith walked across the stage to become the first Black student to graduate from the University of Mississippi, NAACP lawyer Constance Baker Motley cheered him. When she was only 15, she decided to become a lawyer, fueled by Abraham Lincoln’s

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#OnThisDay in 1955, Lamar Smith, a World War I veteran who organized Black Americans to vote, was shot dead in broad daylight on the courthouse lawn in Brookhaven, Mississippi. Dozens of people watched but denied being able to identify his killer. NAACP leader Medgar Evers

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#OnThisDay in 1955, Moses Wright took the witness stand and identified the men who kidnapped and killed his great-nephew, Emmett Till. “It was the first time in my life I had the courage to accuse a white man of a crime, let alone something terrible as killing a boy,” Wright

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92 yrs ago today, a mob burned the African-American town of #Rosewood FL, killing 8. http://t.co/pDznOjvSIH http://t.co/pzpuY6mfoU

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#OnThisDay in 1879, Blanche Kelso Bruce became the first Black American to preside over the U.S. Senate. He was also the first Black American to serve a full term in the Senate and later the first Black American to win any votes at a major party’s nominating convention. After

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#OnThisDay in 1963, Cleve McDowell became the first Black American to attend the University of Mississippi School of Law. He and James Meredith roomed together on campus. But university officials expelled him after they caught him with a pistol for self-protection. He began

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#OnThisDay in 1941, CBS aired the nation’s first hour-long network radio show with an all-Black cast. Until then, Black musicians, actors and performers were often barred from radio. Ann Tanneyhill of the National Urban League conceived of the idea. Since the 1930s, she had

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Happy Birthday, James Earl Jones! He was born #OnThisDay in 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi, before moving to his grandparents’ farm in Michigan at age 5. He had a stutter so severe, he hardly spoke. An English teacher realized his gift for writing poetry and had him recite

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Here is the end of my encounter with Byron De La Beckwith when I interviewed him in April 1990, eight months before he was indicted again for Medgar Evers' murder. From "Race Against Time" ...

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#OnThisDay in 1966, James Meredith was shot a day after he began his one-man, 220-mile March Against Fear from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. Meredith survived, and the sniper was arrested. Meredith did the march to encourage Black Mississippians to vote in the wake of the

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#OnThisDay in 1967, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover issued directives in the counterintelligence program, COINTELPRO, to spy on, gather information and discredit those associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King Jr. The COINTELPRO operations infiltrated

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Many of those in Mississippi's Civil Rights Movement were veterans of #WW2 & #KoreanWar : Medgar Evers, Amzie Moore, Aaron Henry, Charles Evers & many others. #Courage #ThursdayMotivation #VeteransDay #VeteransDay2020 #history

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#OnThisDay in 1958, inspired by the success in Wichita, Kansas, the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City, led by Clara Luper, a high school history teacher, began sit-ins to challenge the all-white lunch counters. Luper had spent a lifetime fighting segregation. When she attended

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Mississippi's state flag lowered at the Mississippi Capitol after lawmakers voted Sunday to remove the Confederate battle emblem. Governor has already said he plans to sign the bill. #msleg #MSflag #SundayVibes #SundayMotivation

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#OnThisDay in 1925, “The King of the Blues” was born Riley B. King on a plantation near Itta Bena, Mississippi, the son of sharecroppers. While singing in the church choir, he watched the pastor playing a Sears Roebuck guitar and told the preacher he wanted to learn how to

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Long before ISIS, there was the KKK. Terrorism in the USA: http://t.co/myyE0o58SA #CharlieHebdo #NAACPBombing http://t.co/jpQVLeOhcI

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#OnThisDay in 1957, Althea Gibson became the first African American to win the women’s singles title at Wimbledon and became the top female tennis player in the world. Just six years earlier, she had become the first black player to compete at Wimbledon. Born in South Carolina,

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#OnThisDay in 1781, Elizabeth Freeman sued for her freedom. Her case led to the Massachusetts Supreme Court banning slavery. “Any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have

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#OnThisDay in 1963, hours after President John Kennedy told the nation that the grandchildren of those enslaved are “not yet freed from the bonds of injustice,” NAACP leader Medgar Evers was shot in the back as he stepped onto his own driveway in Jackson, Mississippi. His wife,

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#OnThisDay in 1892, crusading journalist Ida B. Wells began her crusade against the lynchings of Black men. In 2022, Congress finally passed the anti-lynching bill she urged. Her great-granddaughter, @MichelleDuster , has written a book on her.

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#OnThisDay in 1955, Moses Wright took the witness stand and identified the men who kidnapped and killed his great-nephew, Emmett Till. “It was the first time in my life I had the courage to accuse a white man of a crime, let alone something terrible as killing a boy,” Wright

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#OnThisDay in 1953, more than two years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, Martha White refused to give up her seat on a city bus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Soon, another Black woman joined her. The bus driver threatened to arrest them,

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@SjamaanN JFK's assassination

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#OnThisDay in 1964, Fannie Lou Hamer drew national attention when she detailed violence against Black Mississippians (including her own beating in jail) before @DNC 's credentials committee, challenging Mississippi’s all-white delegation. #History 1/5

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At the time Vernon Dahmer died defending his family from a KKK attack #OTD 1966, four of his sons served in the military. This is what they returned to find of the family home. (Photo by Chris McNair, the father of Denise McNair, who was killed in the Birmingham church bombing)

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#OnThisDay in 1961, U.S. Representative John Lewis was released from Mississippi's State Penitentiary at Parchman after 40 days. Lewis was arrested by Jackson police along with other Freedom Riders who entered a whites-only area of a bus station and refused to leave. Lewis,

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#OnThisDay in 1936, Jesse Owens won his fourth gold medal as a member of the 4×100-meter relay team that set a world record of 39.8 seconds. The success of Owens and other Black athletes defeated Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s plans to showcase “Aryan superiority.” The son of

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#OnThisDay in 1965, members of the Ku Klux Klan, some of whom worked with Natchez NAACP President George Metcalfe at the Armstrong Tire plant at Natchez, decided to attack him because he had helped register more than 8,000 Black Mississippians to voting rolls. He had also

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@historigins Bob and Doug!

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