Starkville, Mississippi was just one of numerous sites where community activists fought throughout the mid-twentieth century to end the segregation of schools and public facilities and provide fair employment opportunities to black women and men. On this website, created by students and faculty at Mississippi State University, visitors can listen to oral history interviews and browse a number of primary documents relating to this activism. Included in the oral history collection (found under The People tab) are interviews with a former member of Starkville High School's first racially integrated class, with the former president of the Oktibbeha County NAACP, and with a retired physician, who was the first black individual to enroll in Mississippi State University. Meanwhile, visitors can learn more about activism and view related primary documents in The Struggle section. Instructors can find a number of lesson plans drawing on this rich material in the Teachers area of the Resources section.