Karriem said the legislation has multiple co-sponsors, but no white member of the House has signed on as a co-sponsor.
by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today January 16, 2023 In the 1980s as a national effort was made to establish a holiday for civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., the Mississippi Legislature struck an unusual compromise as many other states did at the time. The compromise was to honor King, recognized universally as the leader of the fight to end racial discrimination in Mississippi and in other primarily Southern states, and Confederate General Robert E. Lee on the same day.
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