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1987: B.B. King receives Lifetime Achievement Award

The award was given to King by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which also presents the Grammy Awards.  In 2008 the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretative Center opened. Exhibits feature the blues legend’s life and career.

1987: Toni Seawright becomes first African American Miss Mississippi

September 9, 1987: Reverends Ed King and John Salter, now known as John Hunter Gray, ask for privacy protections for victims of Sovereignty Commission spying

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