Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Significant sites sit across Mississippi as markers of the civil rights movement, embedding its history into the state's identity.

A Ku Klux Klan mask stares out over the Mississippi Museum of History on Friday, March 27, 2026, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Sophie Bates) (ASSOCIATED PRESS) JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The glass panels of ...

A new film, By Any Means, portrays the 1966 murder of Vernon Dahmer. How did the activist promote black voting rights, and why did he pay with his life?

WE HAVE BEEN TAKING YOU ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO LEARN THE STORIES OF THOSE WHO FOUGHT, WORKED AND LIVED DURING THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT... AND TODAY WE ARE BRINGING OUR HISTORY AND HOPE SERIES BACK ...

Historian and biographer of the Freedom Riders remembers the civil rights icon. A new telling of the story of the 1964 ...

This is an opinion column. Yesterday is today’s foundation. It reveals our strengths and cracks. That’s why I love history. It cannot be changed and ignoring it only leads to ignorance — to the risk ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – As the nation approaches its 250th birthday, the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson document sone of the country’s most significant chapters: the Civil Rights Movement.

WILLIAMS SAYS THE DIVISION HOPES TO EXPAND RESOURCES ACROSS THE STATE AND IMPROVE SUPPORT FOR AUTISTIC ADULTS. FREEDOM WAS DECLARED IN AMERICA IN 1863. BUT FOR THOUSANDS OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE, IT TOOK ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The glass panels of the Lynching Victims Monolith are simple, etched with the names of more than 600 victims of documented racial killings in Mississippi, along with the attackers' ...

Mississippi's African American civil rights legacy marked a profound shift from the nation's resistance to racial equality to Black political representation. Pivotal events such as the 1955 murder of ...

Civil rights icon Brenda Travis was jailed at 15 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter in McComb and leading protests.