Laurel-Jones County Black History Museum & Arts

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05/28/2026

On this day in 1963, a mob attacked Black and white activists at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. https://ow.ly/FT3Z50Z4WRR

05/28/2026
05/24/2026

They gave us a day…
but stripped the story.
Memorial Day didn’t start with barbecues and sales.
It started with freed Black men, women, and children honoring the dead—
cleaning graves, singing, and remembering what this country tried to forget.

Then history got rewritten…
faces removed…
credit reassigned.
Now everybody celebrates—
but few know who started it.
This ain’t just remembrance…
this is revelation.

How many holidays been whitewashed like this? 👀🔥

05/24/2026

On this day in 1961, 27 Freedom Riders headed to New Orleans were arrested in the Jackson, Mississippi, bus station. https://ow.ly/VGT350Z2TYR

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