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Charles Dollar’s deep dive into Mississippi history wins award

Charles Dollar, a resident of The Village at Deaton Creek, recently won an award for his research into Mississippi civil rights activists. The retired academic is digging into the lives and work of several white Mississippians who were ahead of their time in the civil rights era. - photo by Austin Steele

04012019 DOLLAR 002.JPG — Charles Dollar, a resident of The Village at Deaton Creek, recently won an award for his research into Mississippi civil rights activists. The retired academic is digging into the lives and work of several white Mississippians who were ahead of their time in the civil rights era. - photo by Austin Steele

Jane Schutt was almost assassinated, along with the rest of her family, by a dynamite blast for the cause of civil rights in Mississippi.