Meg Urry, Author at The Hechinger Report

An exhibit at the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. Students around the state say education on the Civil Rights Movement is lacking in schools.

OPINION: AP Physics as a force for civil rights?

by Evelyn Jossell and Meg Urry May 17, 2018October 21, 2020

MARKS, Miss. — Fifty years ago, the Poor People’s Campaign, conceived by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a means to advocate for equality and opportunity, was launched in Mississippi, defiantly, in the weeks after his assassination. A half-century later, countless retrospectives often present the tumultuous spring of 1968 as the closing of the Civil […]