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This article discusses the closing of Baptist churches in Starkville to the newly-integrated BSU choir. The BSU asks the churches to reconsider, and the churches affirm their stance.

Photograph of James Hill

Photograph of George F. Bowles

The photo of King Jr. and J.R. "Bud" Cole was taken in 1964 after the attack and murders of three civil rights workers. Cole was an Elder of the Black church and was asked to retell the story of the incident that is now known as the Mississippi Burn.…

Black & White photograph of the dam site where 3 civil rights activists were buried. Copy of FBI photo by a People Magazine photographer. James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner were murdered in the summer of 1964 and their bodies were…

This is a political cartoon by artist Marshall Ramsey commemorating Sonny Montgomery's receipt of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.