Mississippi
Republican legislatures in some states are trying to keep abortion off the ballot
February 5, 2024Legislative efforts in Missouri and Mississippi are attempting to prevent voters from having a say over abortion rights, building on anti-abortion strategies seen in other states, including last year in Ohio.
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‘Escuadrón de la muerte’ de Mississippi: seis policías racistas culpables de torturar a dos hombres negros
August 8, 2023JACKSON, Mississippi, EE.UU. (AP) — Hombres que habían hecho un juramento de proteger y servir estaban apiñados en el porche trasero de una casa de Mississippi mientras Michael Corey Jenkins yacía en el piso, la sangre...
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Today in women’s history: Long live Fannie Lou Hamer
October 6, 2017On this day 100 years ago, October 6, 1917, Mississippi civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born in Montgomery County, Miss.
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Racist found guilty in 1964 Mississippi killings
June 24, 2005On June 21 a jury of nine whites and three Blacks in Philadelphia, Miss., convicted octogenarian and former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen of manslaughter, exactly 41 years after the triple slaying of young...
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Honor voting rights martyrs with deeds
March 4, 2005Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner. The names of the three civil rights martyrs still ring like a bell four decades after they disappeared in Neshoba County, Mississippi, June 21, 1964. Their deaths, together with the violence inflicted...
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