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@16WAPTNews Emmy-nominated Anchor & Reporter, 3X Mississippi News Anchor of The Year. @NABJ, dad, cyclist. @Ravens fan! Tweets = mine. troyjohnson@hearst.com
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Black History Month: The Jackson movement and the Woolworth sit-ins (1963)

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By Troy Johnson 
| WAPT-TV (Jackson, MS)
By 1963, Jackson was the largest city in Mississippi and one of the most segregated. Public facilities, schools, buses and lunch counters were divided by race, and the city’s leadership refused to negotiate with civil rights groups. That resistance helped spark what became known as the Jackson Movement — a coordinated campaign led by the NAACP, Medgar Evers, local ministers and student activists. The movement included boycotts, marches, pickets, and voter‑registration drives.
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Black History Month: Ida B. Wells

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By Troy Johnson 
| WAPT-TV (Jackson, MS)
Ida Bell Wells was born July 16, 1862, in Holly Springs, Mississippi, just months before the Emancipation Proclamation. Her parents, James and Lizzie Wells, were formerly enslaved people who became active in Reconstruction politics and education. They raised Ida to believe that literacy and truth were tools of liberation. At 16, yellow fever swept through Holly Springs and killed both her parents and a younger sibling.
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Black History Month: Freedom Schools

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By Troy Johnson 
| WAPT-TV (Jackson, MS)
In the early 1960s, Mississippi’s segregated school system was designed to limit Black students’ futures. Underfunded classrooms, outdated books, and a curriculum stripped of Black history and civic education kept generations from accessing the tools of democracy. That’s the world Freedom Schools set out to change. The idea came from Charlie Cobb, a young SNCC field secretary working in Mississippi.
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