McComb, Miss., police had just finished escorting five battered Freedom Riders into a Greyhound bus (TIME, Dec. 8) when an onlooker turned in disgust to a group of newsmen. "Is anybody here from Jimmy Ward's paper?" he asked. "I want him to look at them n

For four weeks a 60-man FBI task force roamed Mississippi's Pearl River County (pop. 22,000). Agents questioned both whites and Negroes, prowled through farmyard and country thicket, homed in on the mob that had dragged Mack Charles Parker, Negro rape sus

Natchez Oct 15, 1965

Their deaths could be characterized as mere embers in the case that has come to be known as Mississippi Burning. For 43 years, the murders of Charles Eddie Moore and Henry Hezekiah Dee were overshadowed by the deaths of three civil rights workers, dramati

Natchez man wants museum to honor slaves who endured market

Preserving the Forks-of-the-Roads Enslavement Market Sites in Natchez, Mississippi