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News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 3, 2019

SALTER: Memoirs of Florence Mars, James Meredith offer insights into a troubled era in South

By: Sid Salter I have distinct memories of two memorable, inimitable figures from the civil rights era in Mississippi whose lives and experiences are featured in two books published by the University Press of Mississippi, the state’s academic book publishing press, that are now in bookstores or available at upress.state.ms.us. The first book is “Mississippi…
News  |  Sarah Ulmer  • 
April 3, 2019

Improving public education – the top priority for Lt. Governor candidate Jay Hughes

Representative Jay Hughes, a Democrat representing Lafayette County, has now decided to run for Lieutenant Governor in the 2019 election cycle. He was originally elected to District 12’s House seat in 2015. “I took the alternative path. I was born into a poor family. My father was a rough neck in the oil field, my…