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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 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.
Kennard, a little-known civil rights pioneer, tried to become the first African American to attend Mississippi Southern College, now The University of Southern Mississippi, in Hattiesburg. In doing so, he ran afoul of the White political establishment and paid a heavy price.
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.
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 […]
18 de oct. de 2015 · Clyde Kennard, a veteran of the Korean War, was also a soldier for civil rights and integration—he was denied acceptance at a Mississippi college.
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.
