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The Margaret Walker Center (MWC), located in the heritage listed Ayer Hall on the campus of Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, is a public archive and museum dedicated to the preservation, interpretation, and dissemination of the culture and history of the African American community. [1]
Isaiah Thornton Montgomery (May 21, 1847 – March 5, 1924) was the founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community.A Republican, he was a delegate to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and served as mayor of Mound Bayou.
At the age of 26 in 1872, Lynch was elected as the youngest member of the US Congress from Mississippi's 6th congressional district, as part of the first generation of African-American Congressmen. (This district was created by the state legislature in 1870.) He was the only African American elected from Mississippi for a century.
He was a representative of Marshall County, Mississippi in the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1874 to 1875. He was a Republican, [2] and African American. [3] In 1873, he served in the state Republican convention. [4] He aligned with the temperance movement, and voted to sustain the governor's veto of a bill relating to liquor. [5]
Herbert Lee (January 1, 1912 – September 25, 1961) was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi remembered as a proponent of voting rights for African Americans in that state, who had been disenfranchised since 1890.
He was the first African American elected to the Mississippi State Legislature since the Reconstruction era. [2] Until 1976 he was the only African-American representative in the state house. He repeatedly won re-election and served until 2003. [1] In 1977, Clark became the first black committee chairman in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
Mississippi held constitutional conventions in 1851 and 1861 about secession. [2] A few months before the start of the American Civil War in April 1861, Mississippi, a slave state located in the Southern United States, declared that it had seceded from the United States and joined the newly formed Confederacy, and it subsequently lost its representation in the U.S. Congress.
The newspaper was founded in 1938 by Percy Greene. [1] [2] Greene, a veteran of World War I and a Civil Rights leader in the 1940s and 1950s, was determined to make a contribution to the struggle of African-American people in the South during a time when they were severely oppressed by legal segregation and Jim Crow laws.