Celebrating Mound Bayou, Mississippi, The Oldest All-Black Town in the U.S.

“This place was a sanctuary. If anyone wanted to lynch you, you could come here and you’d be safe.”

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellJuly 27, 2021Black Cemeteries, Black history, Mississippi history, African Americans, Mound Bayou, Mississippi Delta, Reena Evers-Everette, Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, Isaiah T. Montgomery, Benjamin T. Green, Medgar Evers, Magnolia Mutual

Preserving Black Cemeteries to Save History

Two weeks ago, I stood in Onisha Burks Memory Gardens Cemetery, an old graveyard behind the main cemetery in Canton, a central Mississippi city with a large Black population.

Perspective, Story Behind The StoryKatherine MitchellJune 2, 2021Onisha Burks Memory Gardens, Black Cemeteries, Black history, Mississippi history, Dr. Mignon Chinn, burial grounds, African Americans, slaves, plantations, Unmarked, unmarked graves, Monticello

Mississippi versus Big Bird and Friends

In the very last week of 2020, let’s look back at what Mississippi was up to exactly 50 years ago.