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Clyde Kennard (June 12, 1927 – July 4, 1963) was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
8 de jul. de 2018 · Clyde Kennard was a civil rights pioneer who fought for desegregation of higher education in Mississippi. He was falsely convicted and imprisoned for his efforts, but was exonerated posthumously in 2006.
Kennard Seeks to Defy ‘Southern Way of Life’. Kennard knew that education was a key to upward mobility socially and economically. It appears that the powers that be knew for sure that if Kennard prevailed, then many others would fulfill this same desire to attend college in the Great State of Mississippi.
Learn about Clyde Kennard, who tried to desegregate Mississippi Southern College in the 1950s and faced legal and violent obstacles. Read his letters, his story, and his legacy in this article by Timothy J. Minchin.
The landscape of the modern civil rights era is replete with untold episodes of human tragedy. In civil-rights-era Mississippi, among the less known human tragedies is that of Clyde Kennard. Born on 12 June 1927, one of five children of Will and Laura Kennard, Clyde Kennard grew up near Hattiesburg. At age eighteen he joined […]
In 1960, Clyde Kennard was attempting to become the first African American to enroll at Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi) when he was wrongfully convicted as an accessory to a burglary of $25 worth of chicken feed from a farmer's co-op.
18 de oct. de 2015 · Clyde Kennard was a Black veteran of the Korean War who was denied admission to a Mississippi college and framed by the state for a crime he did not commit. He died in prison in 1963 after a long fight for his rights and the integration of education in Mississippi.
