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March 12, 2008

$80M civil rights museum to be built near Tougaloo

The Clarion-Ledger, 3/12/8 Fundraising efforts will begin soon for an $80 million civil rights museum to be built adjacent to Tougaloo College in three years. A commission appointed by Gov. Haley Barbour voted 22-9 Tuesday to build the museum on a nine-acre site near the college off West County Line Road in north Jackson. Among…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
March 12, 2008

State votes for Obama

The Sun Herald, 3/12/8 Barack Obama coasted to victory in Mississippi’s Democratic primary Tuesday, the latest in a string of racially polarized presidential contests across the Deep South and a final tune-up before next month’s high-stakes race with Hillary Rodham Clinton in Pennsylvania. Obama was winning roughly 90 percent of the black vote but only…