When the Freedom Riders rolled into Jackson in 1961, Mississippi responded with mass arrests — and the Riders answered with a ...
After a mob attacked a bus with protesters in Alabama in 1961, hundreds more joined the cause. Bettmann / Corbis On Sunday, May 14, 1961—Mother's Day—scores of angry white people blocked a Greyhound ...
73 year old Hezekiah Watkins now spends his days working at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum on Lee. He's not just an employee. He's a part of history. And so you grew up in the midst of the civil ...