Becca Walton

The Canton movement for civil rights sought to address issues common to many segregated communities in the state. In addition…

C. O. Chinn was an integral figure in the civil rights movement in Canton, Mississippi. Known for his bravery and…

Derived from Greek to mean “well born,” eugenics was coined as a term to “express the science of improving stock…

The work of Farm Security Administration photographers in 1930s Mississippi provided a window onto the state’s complex race relations and…

The US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands was established in March 1865 to facilitate a free labor economy,…

Edwin Granberry was a celebrated writer and teacher whose works engaged the interaction between the southern landholding class and laborers…

The Eagle Eye, a Jackson newspaper published by Arrington W. High (1910–88), was the most strident of Mississippi’s five black…

Bertha LaBranche Johnson was a leading advocate for black education, founding two schools and serving as a leader and member…

The League of Women Voters (LWV) began in 1920 at the recommendation of Carrie Chapman Catt of the National American…

John Avery Lomax collected more than ten thousand folk songs throughout his life, providing a valuable archive for future use…

Amzie Moore worked throughout his life to address racial injustice in the Mississippi Delta, helping as early as the 1930s…

Diane Judith Nash was a leader in the civil rights movement. Though not a Mississippian, Nash was integral to the…

Patriotic American Youth (PAY) was founded in 1961 in Jackson. The first edition of the group’s monthly newsletter, Pay Day,…

Tallahatchie County native Willie B. Wazir Peacock worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the early 1960s as…

Lenore L. Prather was the first female chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court and has been praised as a…

Cleopatra Davenport Thompson served Mississippi as a talented educator and advocate for civil rights and the advancement of women. Thompson…

In 1961 Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer became one of the first white female civil rights activists in Mississippi. She was…