Do you know why Jackson is the state capital? The city was founded in 1821. Here's this history of how it became the seat of ...
The Root on MSN
He was the youngest Freedom Rider, now he’s sharing his story at a Mississippi museum
Hezekiah Watkins— the youngest Freedom Rider—is still here to share his harrowing journey from a death row cell to the ...
The Forward on MSNOpinion
What Jackson, Mississippi’s only synagogue means to its city — in the wake of arson, and beyond
When Beth Israel Congregation was dedicated in Jackson, Mississippi, in the summer of 1875, the occasion was marked with a ...
Nearly 60 years after the Beth Israel Congregation was bombed by the Ku Klux Klan, an arson fire forced Jewish people in Jackson, Mississippi to relive the horror of that attack.
The arson of a synagogue in Mississippi recalls incidents from the Torah and from throughout our history, writes.
The firebombing of Beth Israel in Jackson, Mississippi, reminds us of the specter of violence haunting Jews everywhere we ...
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) announced that the gun used in the 1955 murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till had been acquired 70 years ...
Churches from around the area reached out to the congregation to offer their up their facilities for the congregants, while ...
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