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Celebrating Black History Month on an Exploration of the Mississippi Blues Trail
The Blues Trail was created nearly two decades ago with markers located at significant places that helped shape the genre.
Tribune Chronicle14d
Explore Valley’s important role in black history
The outbreak of World War II resulted in a large number of white men leaving their well-paying steel mill jobs in the Valley, creating an employment void for unskilled labor that African-Americans ...
deltanews5d
Greenville Woman Makes History as Mississippi's First African American Female Firefighter
GREENVILLE-In 1979, the firehouse was a space dominated by men. But in Greenville, one woman changed that. Laverne Sing ...
The Spokesman-Review7d
Firsts In History: From Revels, the first African-American senator to Barack Obama, the first president
He later moved to Mississippi, where he was appointed ... He became the first African American elected as a state governor in 1990 and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for president ...
The Natchez Democrat4d
Pretty Girls with Brains to host cultural enrichment program
The community is invited to attend the first official cultural enrichment program hosted by Pretty Girls with Brains at the ...