Search results
May 13, 2024 · During the 1960s, McComb and nearby areas were the site of extreme violence by KKK and other opponents to the Civil Rights Movement. In 1961, it was the location of SNCC's first voter registration project in the state, which was quickly met with violence and intimidation by authorities and local KKK. Fifteen-year-old Brenda Travis was expelled ...
5 days ago · Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated Southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. [3]
2 days ago · (5, 6) Simmons’ served as a test rider prior to the national Freedom Rides. Simmons and other CORE members rode a bus from New Orleans to McComb, Mississippi to test segregation practices of public facilities. The riders took seats at a lunch counter at the bus terminal in McComb to test the law, after which Simmons said “all hell broke ...
May 17, 2024 · MCCOMB, Miss. (WJTV) – McComb police unveiled a new crime fighting tool, and the most important weapon in this tool box involves the community. With more than 12,000 people calling McComb...
5 days ago · Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted, tortured, and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long ...
4 days ago · Fri,05/24/24-5:30PM, 79 Reads. Ayanah Tobias, the daughter of Katrina Tobias and Joseph Tobias, was valedictorian at McComb High School’s graduation on Thursday evening. Adajah Allen, the daughter of Kizzy Coney and Timothy Coney, was salutatorian. Sanfrisco Magee won the C.C. Moore Award, which goes to outstanding athletes.
2 days ago · Lists of United States state symbols. Mississippi ( / ˌmɪsəˈsɪpi / ⓘ MISS-ə-SIH-pee) [6] is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely ...
