Flickr/pingnews.com The Ole Miss Riot of 1962 James Meredith, a Black Air Force veteran, applied to the all-white University ...

Water-skiing accident at Ross Barnett Reservoir sends one to hospital Kate Middleton’s Gesture at Surprise Engagement Is ...

To do the job, it has plenty of political muscle —Governor Ross Barnett, his lieutenant governor and the attorney general are among the members—and ample funds, from a two-year budget of $350,000.

Last week Governor Ross Barnett pardoned Kennard, who has cancer. Said Barnett: “They don’t give him much longer to live. He has a good record at the penitentiary, and under the circumstances ...

George Frazier is a man of muscular opinions. To him, Harry Belafonte is “America’s number one slave”; Mississippi’s Governor Ross Barnett is a “son of a bitch”; Roger Maris is a ...

In Mississippi, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett did interfere and regretted the consequences.

“That’s news to me.” exclaimed Mississippi’s Governor Ross Barnett. “I hadn’t even dreamed of it.” Barnett had just been informed that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered ...

In 1962, then-Gov. Ross Barnett, who had been given the authority by the Legislature to select the state’s textbooks, tabbed John K. Buttersworth’s “Your Mississippi” as a Mississippi ...