Cindy Gardner and Rifle

Jackson, MS - April, 3, 2014: Cindy Gardner, Director of Collections for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, shows the rifle that killed civil rights worker Medgar Evers in 1963. Gardner is tasked with collecting artifacts for a new Mississippi Museum of Civil Rights scheduled to open in 2017. Credit: James Patterson for The New York Times.

President Obama in Selma

Protest for Human Rights

Candlelight Vigil

Jackson, MS August, 14 2011; Kylon Williams lights a candle during a vigil for racial unity in Jackson. A group marched from New Horizon Church to Metro Inn where James Craig Anderson, an African American, who was killed by a white teenager. Photo by James Patterson

Soldier

A soldier trains at Camp Shelby

Keith King of Dillard and Company Inc. kneels in an abandoned catfish pond. The pond will be planted with crops.

Left to right, Henry Boykin and John Anderson hauld catfish into a net in a pond that is to be drained and planeted with crops.

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