Voter Registration Deadline For Mississippi’s Nov. 7 Elections Is Oct. 9; Must Be Postmarked by Oct. 10
Voter Registration Deadline 10/10/2023 Read more…
October 2, 1967 – Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first Black Supreme Court justice
Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the…
Sample Ballot for Mississippi for the November 8, 2023 Election
2023 General Sample Ballot Please select the link above to see a sample ballot for the Mississippi Statewide Elections on November 8, 2023.
Little Rock Nine – Go To High School, Go To College
Under escort from the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division, nine Black students enter all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas on September 25, 1957. Three weeks earlier, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded the school with National Guard troops…
MAKING BLACK DETROIT: THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DIVINE NINE, BLACK GREEK LETTER ORGANIZATIONS
How has the history of Detroit’s Black Greek letter organizations — The Divine Nine fraternities and sororities — helped to produce a safe, welcoming community for African Americans in Detroit, one of America’s largest majority-Black cities? In conjunction with acclaimed documentarian…
Rolling Fork Residents Still Waiting on Temporary Housing Five Months After Tornado
ROLLING FORK, Miss.— Martha Morris and James Morris did not think it would take five months after a devastating tornado hit Rolling Fork, Miss., on March 24, for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to deliver their temporary housing unit. But…
1968 The first Miss Black America pageant takes place
At nearly three in the morning, Saundra Williams walked across a stage with a cream rhinestone cape around her shoulders, a sash across her torso and a scepter in her hand, ready to be crowned as pageant royalty. Though it…
Election Day Resources
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Black History on April 13, 1873 – The Colfax Massacre
An armed group of white supremacists attacks a courthouse guarded by a mostly-Black militia in the town of Colfax, Louisiana on April 13, 1873. A bloodbath ensues, as the militia surrenders and the white supremacists carry out a day-long campaign…
Why A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People Must Persist
Gov. Reeves Declares Confederate Heritage Month, A 30-Year-Old Mississippi Tradition BY ASHTON PITTMAN APRIL 4, 2023 For the fourth year in a row, Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has signed a proclamation declaring April as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive…