Former state archivist Guy Rocha traces the origins of the description “The Mississippi of the West” to a March 1954 issue of Ebony magazine.
MLK: 50 years later
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Four years before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr. left an indelible impression at two speeches in Las Vegas.