Freedom Riders Visit McComb Schools
On Apr. 16, 2012, Eric Etheridge, photographer and author of Breach of Peace: Portraits of 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders, along with..
Events
Local History Tour – May, 2012
An important component of the Mississippi Local Culture course is for students to take a history tour of their community, guided by an..
Mississippi Association of Partners in Education Governor’s Award for McComb
The Mississippi Association of Partners in Education recognized McComb during their 27th State Conference. The McComb School District, City..
Civil Rights Museum Feedback
On Feb. 29, McComb hosted the design team for the upcoming Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Youth were able to engage in discussions with..
StoryCorps in McComb, Miss.
StoryCorps’ National Teachers Initiative was not coming to Mississippi until they heard about McComb’s school-community plans to..
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..
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,..
Student Conference Schedule
McComb Legacies Presents: Exploring Our Past….Shaping Our Future Student Conference 2013 Agenda (working agenda, subject to change)..