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Return to About the Mississippi Constitution of 1817
Constitution and Form of Government for the State of Mississippi
Published: March 2012
Mississippi University for Women, originally the Mississippi Industrial Institute and College for the Education of White Girls, was the first taxpayer supported college for women in the United States.
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Margaret Walk
Published: October 2010
“Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Published: November 2006
Jews have always been a small minority of Mississippi’s population, yet over the centuries they have forged communities in the state and preserved their religious traditions.
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: August 2000
Emblems, banners, standards, and flags are an ancient tradition that date from the early Roman Empire.
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Published: February 2008
“Southern blacks not only out-sang, out-marched, and out-prayed their oppressors, but they also out-thought them.”
Adam Fairclough, historian
Published: December 2003
Governor John Jones Pettus has the distinction of serving the shortest term of governor in the state’s history. He served for five days between the resignation of Henry Foote on January 5 and the inauguration of his successor, John J. McRae, on January 10, 1854.
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Published: January 2012
Haley Barbour was elected governor on November 4, 2003, in the largest voter turnout in Mississippi history, up to that time.
Published: March 2015
During the early 1900s, the boll weevil threatened the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta and put the state’s cotton kingdom in peril. Surprisingly, planters believed that the best way to defend their cotton from the weevil was to protect their place on top of the racial and social ladder in the Delta.
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Camp near Centerville Sept. 22nd, 1861
Published: January 2012
Phil Bryant was elected governor of Mississippi in the November 2011 Republican landslide. In that historic election, Republicans won all statewide offices, except for attorney general, and won majorities in both houses of the Mississippi Legislature.
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Camp Near Gadsden, Ala
October 21, 1864
My Dear Sister
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.
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Winchester Hospitle July the 16, 1863
Published: August 2000
Introduction
On March 1, 1817, President James Madison signed legislation enabling inhabitants of the western portion of the Mississippi Territory to form for themselves a constitution and State government, and to assume such name as they shall deem proper; and the said State, when form
Published: June 2002
Mississippi has produced more world-class writers than other states in the South and among them is Richard Nathaniel Wright, an internationally acclaimed African American novelist and social critic.
Published: March 2023
Growing Up in Kosciusko