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In this newspaper article, Taylor interviewed three Black students at Mississsippi State on life since the campus allowed Black students to enroll. Subsidiary topics ranged from classroom experiences, sports, and living arrangements.

This newspaper article discusses the discrimination a group of Black people face as they attempt to attend a Sunday worship service at First Baptist Church of Jackson. It also calls attention to the persistent policy of segregation that the church…

This article describes an upcoming performance of a group called "The People" that consists of MSU students and local residents who are slated to perform a production titled, "The Message." The article goes on to detail the members of the musical…

In this newspaper article, Minor interviewed Afro-American Plus club president, Roy Pearson. Pearson described the club as a vehicle to improve African-American student life at Mississippi State by establishing connections with students of all races…

In this article, Dier reported that Mississippi State hired James Kilgore as a counselor for its Black students. Kilgore's educational background and career was in administrative posts as historically black colleges and universities.

This article describes the lack of Black faculty and professors on the Mississippi State University campus. The article goes on to quote a Black faculty member as saying that he believes the shortage is not from lack of trying but more from facing…

This article examines the history of white attempts to circumvent and avoid integration in Mississippi schools between 1954 and 1970. This article mentions the Jackson Citizen's Council, white insistence on Separate but Equal, and President Kennedy's…

This article details the requests made by the "Black student population at Mississippi State University" via letter to the University president, William L. Giles. The requests range from four Black senators on the Student Association to "a fully…

This article describes some requests and proposals made by the Black student body on the Mississippi State University campus. Combined with the requests is a history on the treatment of Black people throughout history and how the current treatment…

This article artfully discusses Medgar Evers, John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luthor King, and Robert Kennedy's efforts at dispelling racism through Civil Rights works though the article refers to their work as bringing "death to hatred."