Jackson Movement flyer from the summer of 1963, shortly after the assassination of Medgar Evers on June 12. From the files of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.
Now online via the Mississippi Department of Archives & History. http://bit.ly/1aX0o50
Great moments in Mississippi magazine history. Willie Morris resigns as editor of Harper’s, March 4, 1971.
The front and back of the new Mississippi Freedom Trail marker unveiled this week in Greenwood’s Broad Street Park, the site of Stokely Carmichael’s famous “Black Power” speech on June 16, 1966, during the March Against Fear (aka, the Meredith March).
More about the Mississppi Freedom Trail here: http://www.visitmississippi.org/mississippi-freedom-trail.aspx
Pre-inaugural hoopla flashback! Leontyne Price sings “America” like a badass at LBJ’s 1965 swearing in.
Tallahatchie River, near where Emmett Till’s body washed up.
Nathan Bedford Forrest Highway, Ripley, Miss. Marker erected 1962.
So now Meridian is going to happen?
Freedom Rider Dodie Smith-Simmons photographed outside the old bus station in McComb, Mississippi, on April 16, 2012.
Read her story: http://breachofpeace.com/blog/?p=453
Confederate monument in Hill Crest Cemetery, Holly Springs, Marshall County, Mississippi.
The earliest version of the monument was dedicated in 1876. It was finished in 1901.
Confederate monument in Cleveland, Bolivar County, Mississippi. Dedicated in 1908.
Front:
Dead upon the field of glory. Hero fit for song and story.
Back:
No nation ever rose so free from crime, nor fell so free from stain.
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Coco Rocha photographed by Terry Richardson for Vogue Paris, December 2006/ January 2007
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