Mississippi
National Park Service eyes new Mississippi civil rights sites
A historic marker close to the Mt. Zion United Methodist Church serves as a reminder of the 1964 Civil Rights-era murders of three males, James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman in Philadelphia, Miss. Photograph: Marianne Todd/Getty Photos
The Nationwide Park Service says 9 websites in Mississippi related with the 1955 homicide of Emmett Until and the 1964 Mississippi Freedom undertaking match the necessities for the Nationwide Park System.
Why it issues: For many years, advocates have sought to protect websites linked to 2 essential moments of the Civil Rights Motion whereas looking for to take away monuments to Confederates who owned enslaved individuals.
Driving the information: The park system stated it recognized the 9 websites after evaluating greater than 220 throughout Mississippi and consulting with historians and activists.
- The Mississippi Civil Rights Websites Particular Useful resource Research, despatched to Congress late final month, concluded the websites met the standards for potential inclusion.
- Congress can cross laws authorizing the Nationwide Park Service to make the 9 Mississippi websites a part of the Nationwide Park System. President Biden can also designate the websites underneath the Antiquities Act.
Zoom in: Among the many websites are the stays of Bryant’s Grocery in Cash, Mississippi. That is the shop the place 14-year-old Emmett Until, a Black teen, was falsely accused of grabbing and threatening Carolyn Bryant, a white lady.
- The positioning of Mt. Zion Methodist Church was one other. It was one in all 20 black church buildings to be firebombed throughout Mississippi throughout that Freedom Summer season.
Flashback: In 1955, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam lynched Until. An all-white jury cleared the 2 white males, although they later admitted to killing him.
- The 1964 Freedom Summer season undertaking introduced northern school college students right down to the American South to assist register Black Mississippians to vote. Three civil rights staff have been killed in the course of the summer season.
The intrigue: Some websites have sat deserted and forgotten for years whereas others have been privately preserved or stored up by native officers.
- Inclusion into the Nationwide Park System would make the websites simpler to seek out and extra accessible — and it may open the door for federal funding to protect them.
Between the traces: Civil rights advocates, historians and social justice vacationers have been mapping out websites lately as a option to bear in mind and confront episodes related with trauma.
- Some researchers say the preservation of the websites is a part of a motion referred to as “reminiscence work,” the place students have interaction with the previous to revise accounts of historical past.
- The Equal Justice Initiative, a Montgomery-based authorized advocacy group, has mapped 1000’s of websites linked to lynchings of Black individuals.
- The nonprofit Refusing to Overlook additionally has situated websites related to the lynchings and massacres of Mexican Individuals in Texas.
Sure, however: Advocates typically face resistance from conservative native historic county commissions that battle efforts to erect historic markers at civil rights websites.
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) – A probation officer was arrested on seven counts of embezzlement.
Lacosta Lee is accused of receiving court-ordered fines and fees from those on probation and using them for her personal use.
She is a contracted probation officer for Court Programs, Inc.
Lee was served with a $7,558.50 demand letter at the time of her arrest.
She faces up to $5,000 in fines and 20 years per count if convicted.
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The river parts of Riverfest near downtown La Crosse won’t be happening this year. Well, there’s just one part, really.
The River City Water Ski Team had to cancel its part of the show, because the Mississippi River is too high and will actually crest at 15 feet Wednesday, the opening day of Riverfest.
Past events on the river haven’t happened in a few years, including flyboarding — where water jets on your feet simulate floating — and pole vaulting off a barge in the Mississippi.
“We actually have trouble finding a barge that we can rent, basically that business has taken off exponentially,” Riverfest board member Brad Pitel said. “So, when the barges are being used, we don’t have that opportunity.”
Cancelling events hasn’t happened often, and sometimes they’re not even river related. In 2018, the July 4 fireworks had to happen on July 5.
“There was a massive storm that blew through with like 60-70 mph winds right through La Crosse,” Pitel said.
Riverfest opens at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Riverside Park and runs through Saturday night, with multiple big musical acts.
Josh Ross, Drake Milligan and Blue Collar 40 kick things off. The finale Saturday night is Country Line Drive. Check the full schedule of events here.
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) – La Crosse, Vernon, and Houston Counties are under warnings due to flooding along the Mississippi River.
Impacted areas around La Crosse include Riverside Park and Goose Island Campground. Campground owners say about 60 percent of the campsite is uncampable and they’ve had to deny multiple reservations.
National Weather Service Forecaster Mike Kurz says the recent weather has been a huge factor in the flooding.
“We’ve had a very active severe weather pattern and heavy rain pattern over the last couple months. All that accumulation of heavy rain in the river basins across the area have been gradually draining into the Mississippi River basin,” says Kurz.
The National Weather Service says the rivers will crest at nearly 15 feet.
“That will be kind of heading right into the 4th of July holiday. It’s continuing to increase right now it’s about 14.7 feet, so it’s slowly increasing. Because of all the water in the system right now, it’s expected to be a prolonged crest. It’ll take a long time for the water to gradually recede as we get out of the crest period later this week,” says Kurz.
National Weather Service forecasters add that these water levels are unusual this time of year.
“For La Crosse, this is the latest in the calendar year that we’ve had river levels this high approaching 14.9 feet. The most recent would have been 1993 in the end of June, where it crested just above 14 feet,” says Kurz.
The National Weather Service says they do not expect water levels to rise much higher than 15 feet, which means the area record of 17.9 feet will stay.
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