The Mississippi Humanities Council has awarded a mini-grant to the Natchez Museum of African American Culture and Heritage, along with the Natchez Civil Rights Trail Committee, to create maps of the civil-rights sites around the city.
A group of Black community leaders founded the Deacons for Defense and Justice in Jonesboro, La., with the goal of protecting the Black community and fighting back against KKK violence.
The city of Natchez’ centuries-old historic homes, and the wealth behind their construction, came at tremendous human cost, with the city’s prosperity built upon the backs of enslaved Black Americans.
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