HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) Some University of Southern Mississippi students are working on a project to document the story of a Black man who was barred from attending the university in the 1950s.
Clyde Kennard was denied entry between 1955 and 1959 and later died after inadequate medical treatment while serving prison time for crimes he did not commit, philosophy professor Samuel Bruton said in a news release from the university.
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