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With a long and distinguished career as a scholar and public servant, who spent a decade representing Ward 2 on the Jackson City Council, Dr. McLemore was a founding member and elected vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) in 1964. He was one of 64 MFDP delegates who attempted to unseat the state's

Friends of John H. Johnson Museum Celebration Set In Honor of Johnson The great grandson of slaves, John H. Johnson was born January 19, 1918, in Arkansas City, Arkansas, and became the first Black person to be on Forbes magazine’s list of richest Americans. He was the founder and publisher of Johnson Publishing Company, and