Today's Date: March 28, 2024
Stora Enso publishes Green and Sustainability-Linked Financing Report 2023   •   Clean Energy Appoints Patrick J. Ford to Board of Directors   •   PRIVATE SCHOOL VILLAGE (PSV) AWARDS INAUGURAL ELEMENTARY-SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIPS   •   Apogee Enterprises Schedules Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Earnings Release and Conference Call   •   Fox Lake Grade School District 114 Selects Varsity Tutors for Schools to Provide Students with Additional Learning Resources   •   Avnos and Deep Sky Forge Path to Gigaton-Scale Carbon Removal in Canada   •   Chris Diehl Returns to 101 Mobility as Director of National Accounts   •   Guo Guangchang: "Focus on building sustainable, predictable and enterprise with stable profit growth "   •   Latest U.S. Soybean Field Trials by Texas Crop Science Deliver Average Yield Increase of More Than 20%   •   3EO Health Announces the First Point of Care Molecular Test Under $15   •   Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine and Palantir Partner to Create Safe Conditions for In-Person Education in Schools   •   Nutrex-Hawaii Introduces Its #1 Selling BioAstin® Hawaiian Astaxanthin® in a Retail-Ready, Sugar-Free, Vegan Gummy Forma   •   Cardinal Tobin Blesses New Open-Air Mausoleum of the Holy Spirit Site   •   Lenzing strives to drive beneficial transformation across the value chain   •   Netcracker Continues Its Support of the U.S. Paralympic Ski and Snowboard Team at Adaptive Spirit 2024   •   The Lenserf Group Launches Emotional Intelligence Academy for HBCU Interns   •   Lightshift Energy Raises $100 Million From Greenbacker Capital Management to Expand Utility Scale Battery Storage Across North A   •   Government of Canada signs two bilateral agreements with Quebec to support initiatives to improve health care   •   Parental avoidance of toxic exposures could help prevent autism, ADHD in children, new study shows   •   The Home Depot Announces Agreement to Acquire SRS Distribution, a Leading Specialty Trade Distributor Across Multiple Verticals;
Bookmark and Share

Marker Commemorating Slain Civil Rights Workers to be Dedicated Sept. 1 in Philadelphia

OXFORD, Miss. - Forty-five years after three civil rights workers were murdered on a dark Mississippi highway, a historical marker has been created to commemorate their lives.
James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael "Mickey" Schwerner were shot in 1964 in Neshoba County, their deaths becoming a symbol in the struggle for civil rights. The marker honoring them will be dedicated in a special ceremony at noon Tuesday (Sept. 1) in Philadelphia, Miss.
The Philadelphia Coalition, a multiracial group of concerned local citizens that was formed around a call for justice for the murders, requested that the Mississippi Department of Archives and History erect the marker. Coalition members worked closely with the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation at the University of Mississippi to have the marker created.
       "The dedication of the marker represents the ongoing efforts of the Philadelphia Coalition to teach about the 1964 civil rights murders and their legacy," said Susan Glisson, executive director of the Winter Institute. "It is important to the group that local children understand that history in order to prevent its repetition."
The marker is on Mississippi Highway 19 South, near County Road 515, also known as Rock Cut Road, site of the 1964 murders. Leroy Clemons, chair of the Philadelphia Coalition, will preside over the ceremony at the intersection of Highway 19 South and County Road 515.
James A. Young, elected earlier this year as Philadelphia's first black mayor, plans to attend the ceremony as a special guest, as will Rita Schwerner Bender, widow of Mickey Schwerner, and Obie Riley, president of the Neshoba County Board of Supervisors.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the William Winter Institute at 662-915-6737 or visit http://www.winterinstitute.org/.
(sonia thompson
 



Back to top
| Back to home page
Video

White House Live Stream
LIVE VIDEO EVERY SATURDAY
alsharpton Rev. Al Sharpton
9 to 11 am EST
jjackson Rev. Jesse Jackson
10 to noon CST


Video

LIVE BROADCASTS
Sounds Make the News ®
WAOK-Urban
Atlanta - WAOK-Urban
KPFA-Progressive
Berkley / San Francisco - KPFA-Progressive
WVON-Urban
Chicago - WVON-Urban
KJLH - Urban
Los Angeles - KJLH - Urban
WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
New York - WKDM-Mandarin Chinese
WADO-Spanish
New York - WADO-Spanish
WBAI - Progressive
New York - WBAI - Progressive
WOL-Urban
Washington - WOL-Urban

Listen to United Natiosns News