Mississippi honors trailblazing civil rights lawyers with new Freedom Trail marker

Mississippi honors trailblazing civil rights lawyers with new Freedom Trail marker

Freedom Trail marker on Farish Street honors three Jackson attorneys who risked their lives fighting for civil rights and justice in Mississippi.

State’s pioneering litigators honored – Jackson Advocate

Attorneys R. Jess Brown, Carsie Hall Sr. and Jack Young Sr. are forever linked because of the similar work they did during the 1950s and 1960s. Their work has now been memorialized by a “freedom trail” marker erected in front of the Big Apple Inn on Farish Street in downtown Jackson, Mississippi.  It is fitting that the historical marker memorializing Brown, Hall, and Young is located on Farish Street. Each attorney was a civil rights lawyer rep…

Frank Chuman, Pioneering Lawyer for Japanese American Rights, Is Dead at 105

Frank Chuman, a lawyer whose experience in a World War II internment camp in California motivated a decades-long career fighting for equal rights for Japanese Americans, died May 23, 2022, in Bangkok. He was 105.

DePauw Students Find Transformation on Civil Rights Pilgrimage to Alabama - The DePauw

For a group of DePauw University students, fall break was not only a time for rest but also a journey into the heart of the American Civil Rights Movement. A university-sponsored trip to Alabama turned history into a transformative experience, leaving participants with a sobering yet hopeful perspective on the nation’s past and present. The trip took students to pivotal sites across the state, including the Legacy Museum and the National Memoria…