Bill Minor has been writing a first draft of Mississippi history since 1947, initially as the New Orleans Times Picayune’s Mississippi bureau chief and later reporting on Mississippi for The New York Times and Newsweek. In 1997, he was picked as the first recipient of the national John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism, chosen for his courage and integrity in reporting. The Eyes on Mississippi Fund produced a one-hour documentary film preserving this iconic journalist’s eyewitness account of milestones in the state’s—and the nation’s---history. Minor’s Mississippi timeline begins with the funeral of demagogue senator Theodore G. Bilbo, continues through the Civil Rights era’s blood and triumphs, and extends to the present, where persistent echoes of the past resonate for those who remain aware. Please become part of the effort to finance streaming rights to this essential film account of who we are and why, through the experience of a big-hearted Mississippi original.
