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Published: August 2017
Burnita Shelton was one of six children, and the only daughter, born on December 28, 1894, to Burnell Shelton and Lora Drew (Barlow) Shelton. She was part of an educated, civic-minded family.
Published: December 2003
A contemporary historian wrote that the history of George Poindexter’s public career is “the history of the Territory and the State of Mississippi, so closely and prominently was he connected with everything that occurred.”
Published: January 2004
For all of William Winter’s many contributions to the state of Mississippi, he will best be remembered for the Education Reform Act of 1982. After the legislature failed to enact his educational reforms during the regular session in 1982, Governor Winter called a special session.
Published: March 2009
Lucy Somerville Howorth once described herself as a lawyer, politician, and feminist. She believed that girls and women should have the same access to college, a career, and professional promotions as society offered to boys and men.
Published: January 2011
Every ten years the federal government takes a census; it counts everyone living in the United States and its territories. It has done this since 1790.
Published: April 2007
General William Tecumseh Sherman is probably best remembered for his spectacular 1864 “March to the Sea” in which he stormed 225 miles through Georgia with no line of communication in a Union campaign to take the American Civil War to the Confederate population.
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It is difficult for today’s students to grasp the dire predicament of most Mississippians who lived during the Depression Era.
Published: August 2008
Cool Papa Bell is considered to be the fastest man ever to play professional baseball. His achievements, in the Negro Leagues and in Latin America, earned his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, in 1974.
Published: September 2010
Clyde Kennard put his life on the line in the 1950s when he attempted to desegregate higher education in Mississippi. Kennard, a little-known civil rights pioneer, tried to become the first African American to attend Mississippi Southern College, now The University of Southern Mississippi, i
Published: April 2009
In the years after the American Civil War, famous generals and common soldiers alike published their remembrances. These accounts appeared in books, in magazines, and, as was the case here, in newspapers.
Published: February 2003
In the decades prior to the American Civil War, market places where enslaved Africans were bought and sold could be found in every town of any size in Mississippi. Natchez was unquestionably the state’s most active slave trading city, although substantial slave markets existed at Aberdeen,
Published: January 2004
Although he was only five-feet, two-inches tall, Theodore G. Bilbo, in life as in legend, is a towering figure who stalked across the pages of Mississippi history.
Published: August 2024
Founded in 1902 by Wallace Battle, the Okolona Industrial School offered industrial and teacher training for generations of Black men and women in northeastern Mississippi.
Return to Capitals and Capitols: The Places and Spaces of Mississippi's Seat of Government
Published: June 2017
Great football players are accustomed to receiving golden trophies and flashy headlines. Football and ballads, however, make for a rare combination.
Published: July 2008
If slavery was the corner stone of the Confederacy, cotton was its foundation.
Published: July 2012
The small town of Iuka, Mississippi, located in the state’s northeast corner, experienced its one and only American Civil War battle on September 19, 1862. The battle resulted from unique circumstances.
Published: December 2002
Mississippi Choctaws have a strong tradition of doing business. As early as 1700, the tribe had developed a strong economy based on farming and selling goods and livestock to the Europeans who were beginning to venture into Choctaw territory.
Published: July 2003
In the late 1800s, the United States experienced a tremendous growth in industrialization. Led by oil, steel, and other manufacturing industries, the United States had become the world’s leading producer of manufactured goods by 1900.
Published: November 2004
By 1932 the Great Depression had the country in its relentless grip and most Americans believed that something was very wrong.
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
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Constitution and Form of Government for the State of Mississippi
Published: February 2004
Mississippian Ellen Sullivan Woodward went to Washington in August 1933 to be the federal director of work relief for women, a job that was considered to be the second most important to which President Franklin Roosevelt appointed a woman.
IntroductionPrince Abdul Rahman Ibrahima (1762-1829) was from Futa Jallon in today’s Republic of Guinea in Africa. He was captured during war, brought to America, and sold to Thomas Foster, who enslaved him for forty years near Natchez.