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A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
Land in Mississippi was river bottomland rich in organic matter— "the Mississippi and Yazoo, the Tombigbee, Big Black, and the Pearl covered an area of over one-sixth of the entire state and offered unrivalled soil" [5] —and this land was primarily used to grow the highly valuable cash crop cotton produced with the labor of hundreds of thousands of enslaved American laborers of African ...
The movement of importing black slaves to Mississippi peaked in the 1830s, when more than 100,000 black slaves may have entered Mississippi. [7] The largest slave market was located at the Forks of the Road in Natchez. [8] As the demographer William H. Frey noted, "In Mississippi, I think it's [identifying as mixed race] changed from within."
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Mississippi was a center of activity, based in black churches, to educate and register black voters, and to work for integration. In 1954 the state had created the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission , a tax-supported agency, chaired by the Governor, that claimed to work for the state's image but effectively spied on activists and passed ...
Macon, Mississippi, race riot; March Against Fear; Margaret Walker Center; Mary Holmes College; Meridian Baptist Seminary; Meridian race riot of 1871; Mae Louise Miller; Mississippi Cold Case; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Plan; Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission ...
The 1960 United States presidential election in Mississippi took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. Voters chose eight representatives, or electors to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .
Black cotton pickers in the Mississippi Delta c. 1966 In 1967, the majority of legislative programs supporting the United States government's " War on Poverty " were due to expire. In an attempt to generate national interest in renewing funding for the effort, the United States Senate Committee on Labor 's Subcommittee on Poverty held a series ...