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Published: August 2005
In 1836, the northeastern region of Mexico known as Tejas revolted, fought for its independence, and became The Republic of Texas.
Published: June 2003
In August 1939, seventy-seven-year-old Susie V. Powell reminisced about rural life in the early 1900s. In 1910 Mississippi was overwhelmingly rural, she noted, with the majority of Mississippians living on the land or in small towns dependent upon agriculture.
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Published: January 2007
1935: Elvis is born
Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935, in a two-room shotgun house in East Tupelo, then a separate municipality that some called the “roughest town in north Mississippi.” Though poor, Elvis’s parents, Gladys and Vernon Presley, were
Published: April 2010
The members of the Mississippi Legislature excitedly listened to Governor John J.
Published: December 2016
During Reconstruction, one of the most turbulent periods for race relations in the state’s history, Sarah Ann Dickey, a White female teacher from the North, became a pioneer by providing education to newly freed enslaved people in Mississippi.
Published: October 2004
The first known execution by the State of Mississippi was July 16, 1818, in Adams County with the hanging of George H. Harman, a White male, for “stealing a Negro.” Since then, the state has conducted 810 known executions.
Published: November 2025
Jesse Leroy Brown, the third son of John “Papa” Brown, came of age during the Jim Crow Era. Racism clung to Jesse’s childhood experiences like the oppressive humidity of a Mississippi summer afternoon. Despite many obstacles, Brown eventually attended Ohio State University.
Published: May 2004
In 1929 the mayor of Columbia, Mississippi, Hugh Lawson White, gazed out his office window and contemplated the town’s future.
Published: January 2009
United States Senator John Sharp Williams, of Yazoo County, Mississippi, launched his political career in 1892, when he defeated a Populist opponent in his congressional district and entered the United States House of Representatives the following year.
Return to Mississippi Soldiers in the Civil War
July 31st, 1864
Emmett Ross to Mary Collins,
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Pennsylvania
June the 28th, 1863
Published: September 2006
Between 1890 and 1927 the Grand Opera House in Meridian, Mississippi, provided east Mississippi and west Alabama with varied entertainment, ranging from operas in a variety of languages to theatrical entertainment and minstrel shows.
Published: November 2004
By 1932 the Great Depression had the country in its relentless grip and most Americans believed that something was very wrong.
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Grenada, Yalobusha County, Mississippi April 28, 1863
Published: March 2026
Anne Moody was a civil rights activist who became a widely known memoirist and chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. Although raised in poverty, Anne rose above her limitations and bravely confronted the racism in her community and other parts of the state.
Published: February 2007
The Political Life of Isaiah T. Montgomery
Isaiah T. Montgomery might be called Mississippi’s Booker T. Washington.
Published: December 2001
Definitions for Women's Suffrage Amendment
In the 20th century, Mississippi legislators were twice called upon to act on two constitutional amendments that had m
Published: January 2005
Rosalie mansion, which sits high on a Mississippi River bluff in Natchez, Mississippi, is one of the city’s most historic homes.
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Written in the Spring of 1862
Published: October 2006
William Faulkner, Mississippi’s most famous novelist, once said, “To understand the world, you have to understand a place like Mississippi.”
Published: March 2011
Without question, Sarah Anne Ellis Dorsey was one of the most intellectually gifted women of Mississippi. With considerable aplomb, she dealt as best she could with the emotional tensions arising from her lifelong compulsion to balance the conventional female role of the plantation South wi
Published: April 2007
When young civil rights workers arrived in Ruleville in the Mississippi Delta in 1962, they were looking for local Black people who could help convince their neighbors to register to vote. They found forty-four-year-old Fannie Lou Hamer.
Published: February 2006
From the time of their first arrival in Natchez, enslaved people resisted bondage. Slavery existed in Natchez beginning in 1719 and continued through French, British, Spanish, and finally American rule. Then, in 1863 in the midst of the Civil War, U. S.