December 20, 2021
James Meredith says he conquered white supremacy and created a new Mississippi 59 years ago when he became the first Black student to enroll in the University of Mississippi—a school whose longstanding nickname, Ole Miss, is rooted in plantation vernacular of the Confederacy. File Photo courtesy Trip Burns
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A documentary about Mississippi Delta sharecropper and civil rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer will open the 10th season of the Emmy award-winning PBS series, America ReFramed.
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