Living in a small Mississippi town as a Black man, Chaney was a target even before he put on a straw cowboy hat with Civil Rights Movement buttons and left home in the station wagon that morning.

The Klan was prepared to use violence to fight the Civil Rights ... worker, tried to convert that attention to the overlooked victims of racial violence. “The slaying of a Negro in Mississippi ...

‘There are those who are alive, yet never live. There are those who are dead, yet will live forever. Great deeds inspire and encourage the living.’ On a hilltop in a small Mississippi town ...

PHILADELPHIA, Mississippi (CNN) -- Forty-one years after three civil rights workers were killed in rural Mississippi, jury selection began Monday in the murder trial of a Baptist preacher accused ...

To people who happen to be admirers of Spanish Civil War literature, Jackson as the headquarters of the Mississippi ... civil-rights literature, and the Worker in order to keep track of which ...

Claude Weaver '65, a Negro civil rights worker who has been jailed twice in Mississippi recently, will probably speak at a student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee rally here Tuesday evening.

More than 500 Summer School students are expected to attend a rally in Sanders Theater at 5 p.m. tomorrow to protest the murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and urge federal ...

The shooting death of Liuzzo took place on Route 80 in Lowndesboro, Alabama, as she and Leroy Moton, another civil rights worker ... church bombing in 1963; Mississippi NAACP activist Medgar ...

Is it time for a national park that recognizes him and tells the story of the civil rights struggle in Mississippi? When 14-year-old Emmett ... focus only on famous leaders — typically men — or ...

Their assignment was to interview civil rights activists throughout the Mississippi Delta, weaving together personal stories with old photos and other artifacts that describe this era in American ...