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More on Donham: What those who worked for justice in Emmett Till case say about Carolyn Bryant Donham death. Ralph Boston, 83, died on April 30. Originally from Laurel, Boston was a decorated ...
Medgar Wiley Evers ( / ˈmɛdɡər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP 's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who had served in World War II, was engaged in efforts to overturn racial segregation at the University of Mississippi, end the ...
Holmes County Board of Education. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenaged boy who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers ...
Pig Foot Mary (1870–1929), culinary entrepreneur ( Mississippi Delta) Robert Pittman (born 1953), founder of MTV, executive at AOL ( Jackson) J. H. Rush (1868–1931), founder of Rush's Infirmary ( De Kalb) Fred Smith (born 1944), founder of FedEx ( Marks) James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), industrial pioneer.
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally.
The 14-year-old victim was Emmett Till, and his horrendous death drove much of the American Civil Rights Movement. Last week, a team of researchers and Till’s relatives found, in the basement of ...
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist.She was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old teenager murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
James Cotton (1935–2017) – blues harmonica player and singer-songwriter ( Tunica) Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup (1905–1974) – Delta blues singer and guitarist ( Forest) George Cummings (born 1938) – guitarist and songwriter ( Meridian) Rona Barrett (born 1981) Country Singer Violinist Fiddle Player Songwriter ( Pearl River County, Mississippi)