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Published: December 2003
During the United States sectional crisis of 1850, which was precipitated by California’s petition for statehood as a free state, U. S. Senator Henry Stuart Foote of Mississippi and Daniel Webster of Massachusetts joined with U. S.
Published: May 2015
The history of the Colonial Natchez District, Mississippi’s most successful early European settlement, is one frequently told through the eyes and accounts of White settlers. Yet, Natchez was built primarily through the backbreaking work of enslaved Africans.
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: June 2020
In November 1966, Noel Henry, wife of prominent Clarksdale NAACP leader Aaron Henry, sent her regrets to Dorothy Height, president of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW).
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Battlefields on the Tenn. River Sun. [April] 6 1862
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: August 2009
Although Ray Mabus was the youngest governor in America at the time of his inauguration on January 12, 1988, he had accumulated an impressive record of public service and academic achievements.
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.
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A casual discussion of Mississippi’s official state symbols in the classroom usually will produce some humorous answers. For example, the “mosquito” is the state insect, or perhaps it’s the fire ant!
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As the United States entered World War I in 1917, the nation stood divided on the country’s entry. Even within our own state, public opinion was divided. As political turmoil brewed in the state over the U.S.
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While the nation was transformed economically by the Second World War effort, individual states were changed as well. Evidence of this transformation can still be seen within Mississippi through the state’s military facilities and manufacturing companies.
Analyze a primary source and it’s perspective on the Battle of Raymond , Employ the primary source as unique historical evidence regarding the events surrounding the Battle of Raymond , Summarize the primary source pertaining to the Battle of Raymond
Published: February 2010
Public schooling in Mississippi did not become commonplace until after the American Civil War. After the United States Supreme Court decided in its 1896 Plessy v.
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By the spring of 1863, the only major city on the Mississippi River still under the control of the Confederacy was the city of Vicksburg. Maintaining control of Vicksburg was essential to the unity of the Confederate states.
Published: March 2010
By early 21st century, nearly 11 percent of the Mississippi population was educated in some way in the state’s public community and junior colleges.
Published: December 2023
A Gloomy Day in Newport
“It’s a gloomy day at Newport, It’s a gloomy, gloomy day.
It’s a gloomy day at Newport, My music’s going away.
What’s gonna happen to my music? What’s gonna happen to my song?”
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In this lesson plan, students are challenged to move beyond a step-by-step recitation of events in Mississippi’s civil rights years.
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Although largely unplanned, Mississippi’s community and junior colleges grew out of the effort to establish agricultural high schools in rural areas of the state in the early 1900s.
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Anthropologist Margaret Mead once argued against the improbability of one person bringing about major changes in society. Rather, she asserted, one person’s dedication and commitment was normally the only way change would come.
Published: September 2002
In the late 1800s and early 1900s many homes in Mississippi and other rural American states did not have indoor plumbing and had inadequate sanitary facilities. Families could rarely afford to install indoor plumbing.
Published: January 2004
When the Democratic Party nominated Harry S. Truman and adopted a strong civil rights platform in 1948, Southern Democrats organized the States’ Rights Democratic Party. Better known as “Dixiecrats,” the Southern Democrats nominated Governor Fielding L.
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July 31st, 1864
Emmett Ross to Mary Collins,
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Pennsylvania
June the 28th, 1863