JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Keith Tonkel, one of 28 white United Methodist ministers who signed a statement condemning segregation and racism in the Deep South in 1963, has died. Wells United Methodist ...

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi Department of Public Safety (MDPS) transferred 1960s-era Ku Klux Klan materials to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH). Officials said the ...

President Barack Obama, born in 1961 in the newly minted state of Hawaii, proudly characterized himself as the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. But such a mixed marital ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Stephen Mangum was too young to understand what was going on in his small Delta town in 1960s Mississippi — the epicenter of civil rights activism and racial ...

A hidden world of bondage, terror, and survival that exposes how slavery outlived emancipation in the Jim Crow South. Mae Louise Walls Miller entered the world in 1943 unaware that she had inherited a ...

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve ...