Featured Articles for the February 23rd - March 1st, 2006 Issue Archives

Legal Notices, Classifieds, and Up and Down Farish Street (chronicles the history of Jackson, MS) are published in each issue of the Jackson Advocate

FRONT 1.
Rise Up Ye Mighty Race And Do What You Will!

NATION/WORLD
1. Studying our history beyond February

NEW
1. Black and Tan Party rule in Mississippi, 1868-1875 2. Making sure our children know their history 1. Black history or African history? 2. Salute to honor retired JSU dean Dr. Ivory Phillips 3. What if there were no black folks? 4. Bobby Seale and the Chicago Seven trials 5. Nine Scottsboro Boys spurred NAACP concerns for criminal case law 6. Civil Rights vet to gather at e-Center: Participants to tour Jackson 7. Running For The Race: Those who passed the baton 8. Black Americans and the nation’s defense 9. The American Revolution: the most racially until the integrated war fought by Americans until the 20th Century 10. Historic black churches in Jackson honored by Jackson Branch NAACP 11. McKinley Theological Seminary celebrates its 32nd anniversary 12. Rev. Jesse Horton: A product of MTS 13. Remember our fallen -- lest we forget 14. The War On Poverty: A Dream Deferred 15. “Unforgettable”: African Americans who impacted American music 16. Oakley and Columbia: A brief history 17. Black Freedom Fighters of the Civil War 18. Black Mississippi Troops in the Civil War 19. Mississippi Legend ‘Mama Bettie’ put to rest at 115 20. Glynn Birch: MADD’s first African American male national president 21. Patricia Timmons-Goodson responds to historic call 22. African American firsts 23. Locked on the inside; locked on the outside!

EDITORIALS
1. The unity and necessity of black studies, black students, and black history month celebrations 2. Dr. Martin R. Delany: A man missing from black history 3. We need black history monthly 4. Tisdale’s Topics: Lest we forget!

BOOKSHELF
1. Scientific discovery confirms biblical scholar’s translations 2. Book discusses role of African Americans during Civil War 3. Desegregation struggle continues in Mississippi since Reconstruction 4. ‘Dred’: Back in print for the 150th anniversary

HEALTH
1. BEN CARSON: One of the world’s leading surgeons 2. Inventors who contributed in the field of health care 3. Profiles of the first three African American physicians

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET