Dear Mississippi: Give Credit Where It Is Due On 13th Amendment Ratification
Mississippi, you’ll pardon us if this does not look good to the outside world. You know, given your history. Many of you may have followed our January piece regarding Mississippi, its sordid history with the 13th Amendment and our contact with legendary State Senator Hillman Frazier. The gist of it is this: though it symbolically did so in March of 1995, the State of Mississippi – site of some of the nation’s most egregious civil rights atrocities – never officially ratified the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolishing slavery. I know, right? History nerds and enthusiasts may appreciate this…
A Mississippi Legend Clears Up His State’s Messy History With The 13th Amendment
“To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Abraham Lincoln With the optics of the Second Inauguration of President Barack Obama, coming no less as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., it is a proud and also profound day for our country that these two men should be so enmeshed. But we should also be reminded – indeed, obligated – to remember our history of race and racism and the intractable shame and horrors of slavery. In doing my own personal look-back and reflection over the weekend, I discovered a few…
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