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Nationwide Civil Rights Education Delegation Visits Marks
January 8th, 2019
By Velma Benson-Wilson, Quitman County Administrator and Kevin Dayhoff, former Mayor of Westminster MD.
Civil Rights Tour Article 2019 PDF
Marks, Miss. – On January 4, 2019, a nationwide delegation visited Marks, Miss. The 51-member delegation, from as far away as New England, Chicago, Connecticut, Seattle, Baltimore, and Westminster, MD. were part of an educational tour of historic civil rights sites in Atlanta, GA., Tuskegee, AL, Montgomery, AL, Ruleville, MS, and Birmingham, AL. (more…)
Quitman County to Host Amtrak Station Ribbon Cutting
This project has been in the making for nearly three decades, and finally, in less than a month, the City of New Orleans Northbound Amtrak Train #58 will sound its whistle at a distance and slowly bring its engine to a stop on the tracks at the new Northwest Regional Amtrak Station at 285 Cherry Street in Marks, Mississippi.
Interior and National Park Service Grants
Interior and National Park Service Announces $12.6 Million in Grants
to Preserve African American Civil Rights History
The U.S. Department of the Interior and the National Park Service today announced $12.6 million in grants for 51 projects in 24 states that preserve sites and highlight stories related to the African American struggle for equality in the 20th century.
The Marks Mule Train and MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign Interpretive Trail received $50,000.
Learn More: https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1207/03-12-2018-aacr-grants.htm
50th Mule Train Anniversary Event
Quitman County to Celebrate 50th Anniversary
of Mule Train March With “Rebuild the Dream” Symposium
(MARKS, MS) – In 1968 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., walked and marched down Highway 3 in Marks, Mississippi. Few would have imagined then that decades later the same main thoroughfare would bear his name. (more…)