Hometown Author Shares Remembrances
In early December of 2011, Mac Gordon met with teachers in the McComb School District to talk about his new book Hometown: A Remembrance...
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Local History Tour to Amite County…
Local History Tour to Amite County with the Herbert Lee Family The high school Local Culture class went to Amite County where they not only..
StoryCorps in McComb, Miss.
StoryCorps’ National Teachers Initiative was not coming to Mississippi until they heard about McComb’s school-community plans to..
“Check Out Local History” Book Collection Donated to Library
Students and teachers delivered a over a dozen books on the local Civil Rights Movement and labor history to the McComb Public Library. A..
Burglund High School Walkout 50th Anniversary
Commemorating our past, celebrating the present and inspiring the future: Intergenerational exchanges ignited by 50th anniversary of..
Race: Are We So Different? and Hurricane Katrina
Eighty students from the junior and senior high schools went to New Orleans to see two timely exhibits “Race: Are we so different?”..
Oral History Training and Institutes
McComb Teachers Selected for AFT Civic Voices Institute The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) selected five McComb staff members as..
Burglund Walkout Documented by McComb Students
Sixteen McComb students rolled up their sleeves in the summer of 2011 as researchers, historians, and filmmakers to shed light onto our..
Summer Institutes and Conferences in 2011
Students, a PTO president, a community representative, and two staff participated in the Free Minds, Free People Conference in Providence,..
Students Take Civil Rights History Tour
While this was in the 2010-2011 school year, the information and insights from this tour led to the summer institute and the commemoration..