Two Mississippi Museums hold special tour to remember life and legacy of Emmitt Till © 16 WAPT remembering emmett till
Sunday would have been Emmett Till s 80th birthday. Till was murdered in Mississippi when he was 14-years-old. His death sparked a movement.
Amanda Franklin and Cynthia Fagan have been friends for 17 years. They are from Texas and are taking a road trip. They stopped in Jackson on Saturday and decided to visit the two Mississippi Museums on Sunday to learn more about the state s history during the civil rights movement. Sign up for our Newsletters If we don’t remember where we come from then we don’t remember where we are going. And to actually see what happened in the past and where we are today from it just shows progress and it showed change, said Amanda Franklin of Bryan, Texas.
Free admission at 2 Mississippi museums on Evers birthday
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Free admission: Mississippi Civil Rights, History museums celebrate Medgar Evers birthday
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The face of a movement reflects on years of work to get Mississippi flag changed
The face of a movement reflects on years of work to get Mississippi flag changed By Mike Lacy | January 10, 2021 at 9:14 PM CST - Updated January 11 at 7:14 AM
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (WLOX) - It took a simple stroke of a pen to retire the old state flag. A simple pull on a rope to take it down, and a simple check on a box to vote in a new design. But it took a complex effort to make those easy gestures happen.
And, it took a loud message, told over and over again.
today. that i am horrified about. that, at my age, at 85, i m more vocal now i think than i have ever been. lastly, you ve seen a lot of questions about whether or not the democratic party has sort of written off the south, where still the majority of african-americans live. alabama was a wake-up call that black voters, principally african-american women, have great power. could we see the sea change that we saw happen in alabama, happen in mississippi? yes. as a matter of fact i believe that my native state of mississippi is beginning to show the way for the rest of the country to move. we had a very interesting occasion a couple of weeks ago with the opening of the two mississippi museums, at which i said, separate and equal again? and then the president made a visit. and i have to say this, joy,