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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. Juli 2018 · Clyde Kennard was an African American activist who pioneered the desegregation of higher education in Mississippi. After applying multiple times to Mississippi Southern College (now the University of Southern Mississippi), he was framed and incarcerated in 1960 until his death in 1963.
Education was the best antidote for mental and physical forms of slavery. However, Kennard’s ability to read, write, and dream ultimately led to his death. Kennard, Other Blacks Show Bravery, Pay Price. It must be understood that slavery and indentured servitude were designed to last forever.
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 […]
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.
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. Okt. 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.
