Many Americans are flocking to the country’s beaches this weekend to celebrate the Fourth of July. These sandy retreats hold ...

On Thursday, July 3, the Mississippi State Board of Election Commissioners, consisting of Republicans Gov. Tate Reeves, Attorney General Lynn Fitch and Secretary of State Michael Watson, appealed the ...

A new historical marker reminds Mississippi of one of the state’s most pivotal court cases during the Civil Rights Movement.

A new historical marker was unveiled on the morning of Juneteenth at the Warren County Courthouse. The marker honors Peter ...

There was one other Reconstruction-era Black senator from Mississippi, Blanche Bruce. After he left the Senate in 1881, Mississippi passed laws—part of a wave of new Jim Crow laws —blocking ...

This formally ended Reconstruction. "After Reconstruction came deconstruction," Barber said. Throughout the South, state laws were passed stripping African-Americans of their rights.

In “Dangerous Learning,” Black tells how successive waves of calls for teaching slaves and freedmen to read and write triggered resistance from whites in power. Literacy was seen as a major ...

Clark was the first Black legislator in the state since Reconstruction. Credit: Vickie D. King/Mississippi Today Respects are paid to former state Rep. and House Speaker Pro Tem Robert Clark Jr. lying ...

Florence Mars was born on New Year’s Day, 1923, in Neshoba County, Mississippi, a remote patch in the center of the state, where red clay makes it difficult to farm row crops. The Mars family ...

In the years following emancipation, known as the Reconstruction Era, Black voters in states like Mississippi, North Carolina, and Georgia sent more than two dozen Black politicians to represent ...

From 1860 to 1875, which was the era of Reconstruction, Black people were permitted to vote. More than a century later, whites did not want Blacks to know that they ever had the right to vote in ...

Charles Caldwell was never meant to have a voice. Mississippi’s White ruling class made sure of it. He was part of Mississippi’s silenced majority in 1860 — 436,600 enslaved people to 354,000 White ...