First executive director of Mississippi food bank dies
April 1, 2021
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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Jesse Turner Morris Jr., the first executive director of the Mississippi Food Network, has died at the age of 84, the Clarion Ledger reported Wednesday. He died on March 18, surrounded by family.
A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Morris came to Jackson in the early 1960s to help empower Black people living in the South, the newspaper reported. He was field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
In 1966, he co-founded the Poor People’s Cooperation, which provided loans and assistance to people who wanted to start cooperative businesses. He also served for 15 years as director of the Emergency Land Fund, helping Black residents keep their own land. And in 1984, he was named as the first executive director of the Mississippi Food Bank, now the Mississippi Food Network.
Jesse T Morris, first director of Mississippi Food Bank, dies at 84
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads sale of African Americana at Swann
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., an early draft of the Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963. Estimate $15,000 to $25,000.
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.- Printed & Manuscript African Americana is on offer at Swann Galleries Thursday, March 25. The sale will feature an exceptional offering of material with highlights from important figures and historical movements, including Frederick Douglass; slavery and abolition; the Civil Rights Movement, with items relating to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and the Black Panthers.
The sale is led by an early draft of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.s Letter from Birmingham Jail, 1963, at $15,000 to $25,000. Additional material related to Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement include a reel-to-reel tape recording of Dr. King speaking to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at a planning meeting for the Poor Peoples Campaign in January 1968 ($10,000-15,000); a pennant from the 1963 March on