An occasional series about southern New Jersey residents who recently died, leaving lasting marks on their community, their neighborhood, their friends or families.

♪♪ I was a civil rights worker in Quitman County, Mississippi, in 1964, and the experience of seeing what was under the covers in America suddenly gave you a whole new perspective.

April 11 marks a century since the birth of Viola Gregg Liuzzo, the Detroit mother of five murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama in 1965 during the height of the civil rights movement.

The murders were dramatized in the 1988 Oscar-winning movie Mississippi Burning. "My heart was with them," said Harriet Rosenberg of Mahopac, who graduated from Pelham a year before Schwerner.

John Lewis, “The Conscience of the Congress,” dedicated his life to protecting human rights, securing civil liberties, and building “The Beloved Community” in America. He was one of the ...

O’Donnell invoked the 1964 murder of civil rights worker Michael Schwerner in Mississippi while reflecting on the firing of Reid. “It looked hopeless in 1964,” O’Donnell said.

Their deaths outraged the nation and led to Mississippi’s first successful federal civil rights prosecution. Two years before these tragic murders, another milestone in civil rights history unfolded ...

Mississippi State University Libraries to digitize untold civil rights stories with CLIR grant The material pictured represents a small percentage of the more than 100,000 civil rights related items ...

‘A real civil rights worker’ Crutchfield had a certain genius for creating interest in the projects he was involved in, especially Ujamaa Place, said Crutchfield’s stepfather, Robert Mitsch.

“He was a real civil rights worker in many, many ways,” said Dr. Charles Crutchfield Sr., Chris Crutchfield’s father. Crutchfield began working at Ujamaa Place in early 2023.