Rosa Parks: humble civil rights activist
Rosa Parks, became an historic figure in the US civil rights movement . She was a black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on the 1st December 1955.
Read moreRosa Parks, became an historic figure in the US civil rights movement . She was a black woman who refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger on the 1st December 1955.
Read moreVicksburg marks the beginning of the Mississippi Delta, a flat alluvial plain between the Yazoo and the Mississippi Rivers.
Read moreApart from blues, there are other sounds that came out of the Mississippi which together formed rock’n’roll, pop and just about every sound that leaps from radios today.
Read moreThe first cooking school here dates back to 1722, only four years after the original colonial settlement was named in honour of Philippe II, Duc d’Orléans. The first restaurant opened in 1840.
Read moreThe world of rich plantation owners and slavery came to an end with the Civil War. The war devastated the Southern economy where most of the fighting occurred.
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