Jackson, Mississippi December 25, 1964 Today is the birthday of the King of Kings. We celebrated it among the “people that walk in darkness, who have seen a great light: they that dwell in the valley of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.” In the church-burning capital of the world, Mississippi, …
Tag: NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People)
Sep 15
Mississippi Newsletter December 9, 1964
December 9, 1964 Things have been happening at last. Two weeks ago the State COFO coordinator and Jackson office manager, Jesse Morris, called a meeting to reorganize the office and to tackle the problems of the city. At that meeting, the Jackson Project was formally re-launched and assigned the former book-warehouse as headquarters. Immediately thereafter, …