For months, students in Chuck Yarborough’s African American History class at Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science have been conducting research.
COLUMBUS, Miss. (AP) Many of the earliest Black leaders of a Mississippi city were celebrated as part of the community's Eighth of May Emancipation Day. Students from the Mississippi School for Math and Science on Monday highlighted some of Columbus' key African American leaders buried at Sanfield Cemetery, some of whom include Robert Gleed, a state senator from 1870 to 1876; publisher and businessman Richard D.