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. Fifty year anniversary: Brown v. Board of Education

NEWS
1. American Education: A religious tool that developed into a vehicle for change
2. Before Brown: A look at six ‘separate but equal’ Supreme Court cases
3. The dissent of Justice Harlan in Plessy set the stage for Brown
4. The U.S. Supreme Court: Limited but powerful
5. Justice Earl Warren: A defender of human rights
6. Justice Thurgood Marshall: Architect of American race relations
7. Quotes by Thurgood Marshall
8. Sovereignty Commission founded by white racist opposition to Brown decision
9. Vicksburg NAACP leader pushed for realization of Brown case
10. More work to be done
11. Where is America 50 years after Brown?
12. Blacks’ struggle for education in Mississippi
13. Brown ranks 12th among 100 milestone documents
14. Lawyers representing plaintiffs in the Brown v. Board case
15. Benefactors of Brown
16. Frank Melton announces plans to run for mayor of Jackson
17. Schools are re-segregating as U.S. celebrates “Brown” decision
18. NAACP turns 95
19. NAACP timeline
20. Educators to read up on
21. Taking advantage of Brown v. Board of Education: First black co-ed says Ole Miss experience made her think, “There can’t be a God!”
22. Race and sports pioneer urges UM student-athletes to fight injustice
23. Let’s play ball! Black athletes on white campuses
24. Brown vs. Board of Education: How America’s press viewed the decision
25. HBCUs: Institutions for past, present and future
26. NAACP honors U.S. District Court Judge Robert Carter
27. World freedom fighters
28. Edward Alexander Bouchet: One educated black man’s struggle
29. Been there, still there
30. Milestones in African American education
31. World heritage sites in West Africa help black American students understand the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
32. Africa: A great past
33. How the U.S. government misuses the African Growth and Opportunity Act
34. Dr. Martin R. Delany: A man missing from black history
35. Major AARP project preserves legacy of civil rights battles
36. What has happened to the black man? By Ayanna Patton and Evangelist Yana J.W. Cooper
37. MyFamily.com, Inc. offers tips for tracing African American roots
38. Last survivor of Tuskegee experiment remembered
39. Tuskegee revisited
40. Nation’s first black governor chronicles dealings with race
41. Gov. Barbour, local judge receive royalties from disputed oil land
42. UNCP making a difference
43. Tougaloo College: Building on a good thing
44. The Glaucoma Research Foundation salutes Dr. Percy Julian
45. Low self-esteem: Is there a remedy?
46. MSU researchers expand civil rights encyclopedia
47. Harold Washington: The man and the movement
48. Institutional racism cannot be ignored

EDITORIALS
1. Tisdale’s Topics: A century of dishonor
2. Passion of the Christ is racist
3. The significance of Black History
4. Brown vs the Board of Education and the continuing struggle for black education in the United States

PERSPECTIVE
1. The meaning of Black History Month: Education for liberation
2. Studying our history throughout the year

BOOKSHELF
1. Notes on recent publication
2. Biblical Hebrew scholar brings new light to old world

UP AND DOWN FARISH STREET
As we approach the end of Black History Month 2004, as we conclude saluting and applauding ourselves, and as we remember with clarity the worthy contributions of many who happen or happened to be African American, it’s time we pause and take stock of our problem areas -- areas with problems we can and must address. If I gave two of these areas a title, the most important two, I would call them “V and V” … violence and voting. We’ll look at these and other subjects as We Move on Down the Line.