Though MacArthur Cotton was critical of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, the 82-year-old is even more critical of where things ...

Dennis became a leader in CORE’s voting registration efforts, particularly in Mississippi, and worked with legends of the civil rights movement such as such as John Lewis, Diane Nash ...

But when students at BTWHS protested for civil rights in 1963, violence erupted. Students from Booker T. Washington High School running away from a cloud of tear gas on Sept. 22, 1963.