The Mississippi fight against integration and civil rights was the most organized, defiant, and violent of anywhere in the country. But until 2011, civil rights history was not part of the required curriculum in Mississippi public schools.

In 2011, the Mississippi Department of Education issued a new set of standards requiring lessons on civil rights history.

Sierra Mannie, who reported on civil rights education for The The Hechinger Report and Reveal explains what she found in her recent investigation of civil rights education and textbooks in Mississippi.

Read the full article on civil rights in Mississippi at The Hechinger Report