Mississippi Department of Public Safety officials stumbled across a cache of Ku Klux Klan materials while cleaning out a closet to move to the department’s new headquarters.
In August 1955, Emmett Till had barely turned 14 when he visited his Mississippi relatives from Chicago, only to be beaten and shot to death after he reportedly wolf-whistled at Carolyn Bryant Donham at a store.
The Mississippi Republican dominated legislature is proposing to reinvent Jim Crow by creating a separate court district in Jackson—with an 80 percent Black population—just for the "white" neighborhoods.