More than 100 students walked out of Burglund High School in McComb, Mississippi, on Oct. 4, 1961. They wanted an end to racial violence, segregation and barriers to voting.

Dozens of Travis’ classmates from Burglund High School crowded ... by bus to Mississippi starting that spring to challenge segregation in interstate travel. Some stopped in McComb.

Summit Town Councilman Joe Lewis said that when Brenda Travis was expelled from Burglund High School ... other public schools in the state of Mississippi. Hilda Casin, a retired McComb educator ...

MCCOMB, Miss. (AP) — "Mississippi's Exiled Daughter" is ... in a sit-in in 1961— a punishment that led to the Burglund High School walkout in protest and essentially ushered in the civil ...

They at Burglund High were the school’s last all-Black ... I have written many times that McComb, Pike County and the footprint of Southwest Mississippi have produced more cultural artists ...