How Little Mound Bayou Became Powerful Engine For African American Civil Rights And Economic Advancement – OpEd

By David T. Beito 

It is fair to say that no other small town has contributed so much to advancing human freedom in the United States during the twentieth century than Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Had that little community not existed, such civil rights icons as Medgar Evers, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Rosa Parks might have remained...