The recent arson that destroyed Beth Israel, Jackson, Miss.'s only synagogue, recalls that state's dark history of violence ...

It’s well-known that 1964’s Freedom Summer, as it came to be called, was an interracial effort, with many white college students joining African Americans to register voters in Mississippi. It was the ...

Over a 10-week period, 1964’s Freedom Summer brought together nearly 700 student volunteers, local residents and other civil rights activists to work to ensure that African Americans in Mississippi ...