This week marks the 25th anniversary of the landmark contribution of $100 million by Jim Barksdale to improve reading skills ...

But Mississippi lawmakers plowed forward anyway ... At least eight of the 20 schools opened with an early boost from vouchers in the 1960s. “The origins of private schools receiving public ...

He later helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ... an extension of the civil rights work he had started in the 1960s. “Bob really saw the issue of giving hope to young ...