Neshoba County Fair
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The Neshoba County Fair, also known as Mississippi's Giant House Party, is an annual event of agricultural, political, and social entertainment held a few miles from Philadelphia, Mississippi. The fai
Neshoba County Fair cabins at night
Harness racing at the Neshoba County Fair
Freedom Summer
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Freedom Summer, also known as Mississippi Freedom Summer, was a campaign launched by American civil rights activists in June 1964 to register as many African-American voters as possible in the state o
Neshoba County Fair
…it was a deliberate reactionary choice to campaign there, as it was close to the site of one of the most infamous acts of racist violence during the Freedom Summer of 1964. Iris Kelso, a Neshoba County native and a journalist in New Orleans, often wrote about the fair in her columns and later in her television…
SNCC advert for the Freedom Summer
A stained glass window honoring the three slain activists in Sage Chapel, Cornell University.
Wisconsin Historical Society archivists described this as "a moving letter fragment by Lipsky (?) describing the violence that is the essence of Mississippi to him"; this letter was probably written by Michael Lipsky, who was assigned to the Freedom House at Holly Springs
Mt. Zion Church state history marker near Philadelphia, Mississippi