Education & Resources
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![Logo of the University of Mississippi, featuring a white classical building outlined in white inside a red oval, with the year 1848 at the bottom.]()
African American Studies Major
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![Logo of the University of Southern Mississippi featuring a stylized dome with a lantern on top and the text 'The University of Southern Mississippi'.]()
Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties
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![Logo of Jackson State University featuring the initials 'JSU', established in 1877, in navy blue with the full university name.]()
COFO Center
Resources
Mississippi Civil Rights Project
Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Mississippi Civil Rights Museum
United States Civil Rights Trail
Bennie Thompson Academic & Civil Rights Research Center at Tougaloo College
Civil Rights Movement Archive
SNCC Digital Gateway
Black History Gallery
Smith Robertson Museum
Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument
Funding for the Mississippi Freedom Houses Project has been provided by:
Mellon Foundation Monuments Project
The Monuments Project | Mellon Foundation
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
National Park Service African American Civil Rights Grant Program
African American Civil Rights - Historic Preservation Fund (U.S. National Park Service)
National Park Service Lower Mississippi Delta Initiative
About - Lower Mississippi Delta Region (U.S. National Park Service)
The Mississippi Freedom Houses Story Map was developed by Dr. Katrina Stack.
Photography on this website was contributed by:
Chandler Griffin, Rory Doyle, Ron Blaylock, Julian Barlow, Brandon Holland,The Tell Agency and Mississippi Heritage Trust.