Thomas John Carey

Walter Lanier “Red” Barber, one of the most recognizable voices in baseball history, announced games for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn…

Campbell College, an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) junior college, educated black college and high school students in Mississippi between 1890…

In 1794 Eli Whitney patented the modern cotton gin, a machine capable of separating the rough, green seeds from the…

Before 1962, when James H. Meredith desegregated the University of Mississippi, white and black Mississippians attended racially segregated public colleges…

Cleveland Donald Jr., the second African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi, was a civil rights activist, scholar,…

Edward M. Yerger, a newspaper editor, southern nationalist, and member of one of Mississippi’s most prominent families, murdered Col. Joseph…

In the winter and spring of 1879, after the end of Reconstruction, approximately five thousand former slaves fled economic inequality…

Volney Erskine Howard, a prominent newspaper editor and jurist, practiced law in four states and held governmental positions in three.…

Frank M. “Bruiser” Kinard played offensive and defensive tackle for the University of Mississippi football team from 1935 to 1937.…

Clennon Washington King Jr., the first African American to attempt to attend the University of Mississippi and the first black…

Low levels of adult literacy have plagued Mississippi since the state’s founding. Though Mississippi’s illiteracy rate decreased considerably during the…

An educator and a leader of numerous civic and women’s organizations, Ruby Elizabeth Stutts Lyells spent four decades advocating for…

For five decades, Charles McLaurin has served Sunflower County as a community organizer and a civil rights activist. McLaurin played…

Established in 1848 as the Institution for the Instruction of the Blind, the Mississippi School for the Blind (MSB) currently…

Founded in 1854 in Jackson, the Mississippi School for the Deaf (MSD) educates hearing-impaired children from prekindergarten through twelfth grade.…

Founded in 1964, the Phil Hardin Foundation provides grants in support of educational programs in Mississippi. In a state plagued…

Emma Ody Pohl was a popular physical education teacher at the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College (later Mississippi State College…

In the early twentieth century counties across the South closed rural schoolhouses and replaced them with larger consolidated schools. School…

From roughly 1910 to 1930 county training schools offered elementary education, secondary instruction, and teacher training for African Americans across…

Rural scenes of cotton fields, county fairs, blues music, and country churches and groceries dominate popular and scholarly depictions of…