March 2, 2016

Prominent Mississippi civil rights activist James Figgs dies

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - James Figgs, a longtime community organizer in the Mississippi Delta who was known for playing crucial supporting roles in the 1960s civil rights movement and beyond, has died. He was 72.

Figgs died Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oxford, according to Lafayette County Coroner Rocky ...

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