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| black history in mississippi: Black Life on the Mississippi Thomas C. Buchanan, 2006-03-08 All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their liberty amid the slave trade and the growth of the cotton South. Offering a counternarrative to Twain's well-known tale from the perspective of the pilothouse, Thomas C. Buchanan paints a more complete picture of the Mississippi, documenting the rich variety of experiences among slaves and free blacks who lived and worked on the lower decks and along the river during slavery, through the Civil War, and into emancipation. Buchanan explores the creative efforts of steamboat workers to link riverside African American communities in the North and South. The networks African Americans created allowed them to keep in touch with family members, help slaves escape, transfer stolen goods, and provide forms of income that were important to the survival of their communities. The author also details the struggles that took place within the steamboat work culture. Although the realities of white supremacy were still potent on the river, Buchanan shows how slaves, free blacks, and postemancipation freedpeople fought for better wages and treatment. By exploring the complex relationship between slavery and freedom, Buchanan sheds new light on the ways African Americans resisted slavery and developed a vibrant culture and economy up and down America's greatest river. |
| black history in mississippi: Mississippi Black History Makers George A. Sewell, Margaret L. Dwight, 1984-11 A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi |
| black history in mississippi: Mississippi Black History Makers George Alexander Sewell, Margaret L. Dwight, 1984 A well-researched collection of biographical sketches of notable African Americans from Mississippi |
| black history in mississippi: From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse Christopher M. Span, 2009 In the years immediately following the Civil War_the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi_there was much debate over the general purpose of black schools and who would control them. From Cotton Field to Scho |
| black history in mississippi: The Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi Ted Ownby, 2013-10-17 Essays from innovative, leading scholars covering the gamut of the civil rights movement |
| black history in mississippi: Hattiesburg William Sturkey, 2019-03-28 Winner of the Zócalo Public Square Book Prize Benjamin L. Hooks Award Finalist “An insightful, powerful, and moving book.” —Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice “Sturkey’s clear-eyed and meticulous book pulls off a delicate balancing act. While depicting the terrors of Jim Crow, he also shows how Hattiesburg’s black residents, forced to forge their own communal institutions, laid the organizational groundwork for the civil rights movement.” —New York Times If you really want to understand Jim Crow—what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it—you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown. There you can still see remnants of the shops and churches where, amid the violence and humiliation of segregation, men and women gathered to build a remarkable community. Hattiesburg takes us into the heart of this divided town and deep into the lives of families on both sides of the racial divide to show how the fabric of their existence was shaped by the changing fortunes of the Jim Crow South. “Sturkey’s magnificent portrait reminds us that Mississippi is no anachronism. It is the dark heart of American modernity.” —Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk “When they are at their best, historians craft powerful, compelling, often genre-changing pieces of history...William Sturkey is one of those historians...A brilliant, poignant work.” —Charles W. McKinney, Jr., Journal of African American History |
| black history in mississippi: A Little Taste of Freedom Emilye Crosby, 2006-05-26 In this long-term community study of the freedom movement in rural, majority-black Claiborne County, Mississippi, Emilye Crosby explores the impact of the African American freedom struggle on small communities in general and questions common assumptions that are based on the national movement. The legal successes at the national level in the mid 1960s did not end the movement, Crosby contends, but rather emboldened people across the South to initiate waves of new actions around local issues. Escalating assertiveness and demands of African Americans--including the reality of armed self-defense--were critical to ensuring meaningful local change to a remarkably resilient system of white supremacy. In Claiborne County, a highly effective boycott eventually led the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of economic boycotts for political protest. NAACP leader Charles Evers (brother of Medgar) managed to earn seemingly contradictory support from the national NAACP, the segregationist Sovereignty Commission, and white liberals. Studying both black activists and the white opposition, Crosby employs traditional sources and more than 100 oral histories to analyze the political and economic issues in the postmovement period, the impact of the movement and the resilience of white supremacy, and the ways these issues are closely connected to competing histories of the community. |
| black history in mississippi: Crossroads at Clarksdale Françoise N. Hamlin, 2012 Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle for black freedom through the history of Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hamlin paints a full picture of the town ov |
| black history in mississippi: Church Street Grace Sweet, Benjamin Bradley, 2013-07-09 The 1930s and 1940s saw unprecedented prosperity for the African Americans of Jackson's Church Street. From the first black millionaire in the United States to defenders of civil rights, nearly all of Jackson's black professionals lived on Church Street. It was one of the most popular places to see and be seen, whether that meant spotting Louis Armstrong strolling out of the Crystal Palace Club or Martin Luther King Jr. organizing an NAACP meeting at his field office on nearby Farish Street. Join authors and veterans of Church Street Grace Sweet and Benjamin Bradley as they explore the astounding history and legacy of Church Street. |
| black history in mississippi: A Chance for Change Crystal R. Sanders, 2016-02-10 In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) in 1965, a Head Start program that not only gave poor black children access to early childhood education but also provided black women with greater opportunities for political activism during a crucial time in the unfolding of the civil rights movement. Women who had previously worked as domestics and sharecroppers secured jobs through CDGM as teachers and support staff and earned higher wages. The availability of jobs independent of the local white power structure afforded these women the freedom to vote in elections and petition officials without fear of reprisal. But CDGM's success antagonized segregationists at both the local and state levels who eventually defunded it. Tracing the stories of the more than 2,500 women who staffed Mississippi's CDGM preschool centers, Sanders's book remembers women who went beyond teaching children their shapes and colors to challenge the state's closed political system and white supremacist ideology and offers a profound example for future community organizing in the South. |
| black history in mississippi: Local People John Dittmer, 1994 Traces the monumental battle waged by civil rights organizations and by local people to establish basic human rights for all citizens of Mississippi |
| black history in mississippi: Coming of Age in Mississippi Anne Moody, 2011-09-07 The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change. “Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago Tribune Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had “known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was . . . the fear of being killed just because I was black.” In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life. A straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC, she experienced firsthand the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement—and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs, and deadly force that were used to destroy it. A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation’s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. Praise for Coming of Age in Mississippi “A history of our time, seen from the bottom up, through the eyes of someone who decided for herself that things had to be changed . . . a timely reminder that we cannot now relax.”—Senator Edward Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review “Something is new here . . . rural southern black life begins to speak. It hits the page like a natural force, crude and undeniable and, against all principles of beauty, beautiful.”—The Nation “Engrossing, sensitive, beautiful . . . so candid, so honest, and so touching, as to make it virtually impossible to put down.”—San Francisco Sun-Reporter |
| black history in mississippi: The Slaves of Liberty Dale Edwyna Smith, 1999 First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. |
| black history in mississippi: The Negro Motorist Green Book Victor H. Green, The Negro Motorist Green Book was a groundbreaking guide that provided African American travelers with crucial information on safe places to stay, eat, and visit during the era of segregation in the United States. This essential resource, originally published from 1936 to 1966, offered a lifeline to black motorists navigating a deeply divided nation, helping them avoid the dangers and indignities of racism on the road. More than just a travel guide, The Negro Motorist Green Book stands as a powerful symbol of resilience and resistance in the face of oppression, offering a poignant glimpse into the challenges and triumphs of the African American experience in the 20th century. |
| black history in mississippi: Mississippi Praying Carolyn Renée Dupont, 2013-08-23 Mississippi Praying examines the faith communities at ground-zero of the racial revolution that rocked America. This religious history of white Mississippians in the civil rights era shows how Mississippians’ intense religious commitments played critical, rather than incidental, roles in their response to the movement for black equality. During the civil rights movement and since, it has perplexed many Americans that unabashedly Christian Mississippi could also unapologetically oppress its black population. Yet, as Carolyn Renée Dupont richly details, white southerners’ evangelical religion gave them no conceptual tools for understanding segregation as a moral evil, and many believed that God had ordained the racial hierarchy. Challenging previous scholarship that depicts southern religious support for segregation as weak, Dupont shows how people of faith in Mississippi rejected the religious argument for black equality and actively supported the effort to thwart the civil rights movement. At the same time, faith motivated a small number of white Mississippians to challenge the methods and tactics of do-or-die segregationists. Racial turmoil profoundly destabilized Mississippi’s religious communities and turned them into battlegrounds over the issue of black equality. Though Mississippi’s evangelicals lost the battle to preserve segregation, they won important struggles to preserve the theology that had sustained the racial hierarchy. Ultimately, this history sheds light on the eventual rise of the religious right by elaborating the connections between the pre- and post-civil rights South. Carolyn Renée Dupont is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond, KY. |
| black history in mississippi: The Freedom Schools Jon N. Hale, 2016-06-07 Created in 1964 as part of the Mississippi Freedom Summer, the Mississippi Freedom Schools were launched by educators and activists to provide an alternative education for African American students that would facilitate student activism and participatory democracy. The schools, as Jon N. Hale demonstrates, had a crucial role in the civil rights movement and a major impact on the development of progressive education throughout the nation. Designed and run by African American and white educators and activists, the Freedom Schools counteracted segregationist policies that inhibited opportunities for black youth. Providing high-quality, progressive education that addressed issues of social justice, the schools prepared African American students to fight for freedom on all fronts. Forming a political network, the Freedom Schools taught students how, when, and where to engage politically, shaping activists who trained others to challenge inequality. Based on dozens of first-time interviews with former Freedom School students and teachers and on rich archival materials, this remarkable social history of the Mississippi Freedom Schools is told from the perspective of those frequently left out of civil rights narratives that focus on national leadership or college protestors. Hale reveals the role that school-age students played in the civil rights movement and the crucial contribution made by grassroots activists on the local level. He also examines the challenges confronted by Freedom School activists and teachers, such as intimidation by racist Mississippians and race relations between blacks and whites within the schools. In tracing the stories of Freedom School students into adulthood, this book reveals the ways in which these individuals turned training into decades of activism. Former students and teachers speak eloquently about the principles that informed their practice and the influence that the Freedom School curriculum has had on education. They also offer key strategies for further integrating the American school system and politically engaging today's youth. |
| black history in mississippi: Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi Tiyi Makeda Morris, 2015 Morris provides the first comprehensive examination of the Jackson, Mississippi-based women's organization Womanpower Unlimited. Originally instated in 1961 to sustain the civil rights movement, the organization also revitalized black women's social and political activism in the state through its diverse agenda and grassroots approach. |
| black history in mississippi: Give My Poor Heart Ease William Ferris, 2009-11-01 Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts front and center a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record. Illustrated with Ferris's photographs of the musicians and their communities and including a CD of original music, the book features more than twenty interviews relating frank, dramatic, and engaging narratives about black life and blues music in the heart of the American South. Here are the stories of artists who have long memories and speak eloquently about their lives, blues musicians who represent a wide range of musical traditions--from one-strand instruments, bottle-blowing, and banjo to spirituals, hymns, and prison work chants. Celebrities such as B. B. King and Willie Dixon, along with performers known best in their neighborhoods, express the full range of human and artistic experience--joyful and gritty, raw and painful. In an autobiographical introduction, Ferris reflects on how he fell in love with the vibrant musical culture that was all around him but was considered off limits to a white Mississippian during a troubled era. This magnificent volume illuminates blues music, the broader African American experience, and indeed the history and culture of America itself. |
| black history in mississippi: African Americans of Jackson Turry Flucker, Phoenix Savage, 2008 The African American community of Jackson comprised an eclectic array of architectural styles reflective of the economic and social stratification of its urban dwellers. Images of America: African Americans of Jackson illustrates through vintage photographs the lives of the city's African American residents as seen through their struggles and triumphs. |
| black history in mississippi: Worse Than Slavery David M. Oshinsky, 1997-04-22 In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides. |
| black history in mississippi: Forgotten Time John C. Willis, 2000 Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain. |
| black history in mississippi: Mississippi in Africa Alan Huffman, 2011-01-03 When wealthy Mississippi cotton planter Isaac Ross died in 1836, his will decreed that his plantation, Prospect Hill, should be liquidated and the proceeds from the sale be used to pay for his slaves' passage to the newly established colony of Liberia in western Africa. Ross's heirs contested the will for more than a decade, prompting a deadly revolt in which a group of slaves burned Ross's mansion to the ground. But the will was ultimately upheld. The slaves then emigrated to their new home, where they battled the local tribes and built vast plantations with Greek Revival-style mansions in a region the Americo-Africans renamed “Mississippi in Africa.” In the late twentieth century, the seeds of resentment sown over a century of cultural conflict between the colonists and tribal people exploded, begetting a civil war that rages in Liberia to this day. Tracking down Prospect Hill's living descendants, deciphering a history ruled by rumor, and delivering the complete chronicle in riveting prose, journalist Alan Huffman has rescued a lost chapter of American history whose aftermath is far from over. |
| black history in mississippi: The Mississippi Chinese James W. Loewen, 1988-01-01 This scholarly, carefully researched book studies one of the most overlooked minority groups in Americathe Chinese of the Mississippi Delta. During Reconstruction, white plantation owners imported Chinese sharecroppers in the hope of replacing their black laborers. In the beginning they were classed with blacks. But the Chinese soon moved into the towns and became almost without exception, owners of small groceries. Loewen details their astounding transition from black to essentially white status with an insight seldom found in studies of race relationships in the Deep South. |
| black history in mississippi: Black Exodus Alferdteen Harrison, 2010-01-06 With essays by Blyden Jackson, Dernoral Davis, Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck, Carole Marks, James R. Grossman, and William Cohen and Neil R. McMillen What were the causes that motivated legions of black southerners to immigrate to the North? What was the impact upon the land they left and upon the communities they chose for their new homes? Perhaps no pattern of migration has changed America's socioeconomic structure more than this mass exodus of African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century. Because of this exodus, the South lost not only a huge percentage of its inhabitants to northern cities like Chicago, New York, Detroit, and Philadelphia but also its supply of cheap labor. Fleeing from racial injustice and poverty, southern blacks took their culture north with them and transformed northern urban centers with their churches, social institutions, and ways of life. In Black Exodus eight noted scholars consider the causes that stimulated the migration and examine the far-reaching results. |
| black history in mississippi: Sons of Mississippi Paul Hendrickson, 2015-02-18 They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. None of them knows that the image will appear in Life magazine or that it will become an icon of its era. The year is 1962, and these seven white Mississippi lawmen have gathered to stop James Meredith from integrating the University of Mississippi. One of them is swinging a billy club. More than thirty years later, award-winning journalist and author Paul Hendrickson sets out to discover who these men were, what happened to them after the photograph was taken, and how racist attitudes shaped the way they lived their lives. But his ultimate focus is on their children and grandchildren, and how the prejudice bequeathed by the fathers was transformed, or remained untouched, in the sons. Sons of Mississippi is a scalding yet redemptive work of social history, a book of eloquence and subtlely that tracks the movement of racism across three generations and bears witness to its ravages among both black and white Americans. |
| black history in mississippi: Development Arrested Clyde Woods, 2017-05-02 A new edition of a classic history of the Mississippi River Delta Development Arrested is a major reinterpretation of the 200-year-old conflict between African American workers and the planters of the Mississippi Delta. The book measures the impact of the plantation system on those who suffered its depredations firsthand, while tracing the decline and resurrection of plantation ideology in national public policy debate. Despite countless defeats under the planter regime, African Americans in the Delta continued to push forward their agenda for social and economic justice. Throughout this remarkably interdisciplinary book, ranging across fields as diverse as rural studies, musicology, development studies, and anthropology, Woods demonstrates the role of music—including jazz, rock and roll, soul, rap and, above all, the blues—in sustaining a radical vision of social change. |
| black history in mississippi: We Will Shoot Back Akinyele Omowale Umoja, 2013-04-22 Ranging from Reconstruction to the Black Power period, this thoroughly and creatively researched book effectively challenges long-held beliefs about the Black Freedom Struggle. It should make it abundantly clear that the violence/nonviolence dichotomy is too simple to capture the thinking of Black Southerners about the forms of effective resistance.—Charles M. Payne, University of Chicago The notion that the civil rights movement in the southern United States was a nonviolent movement remains a dominant theme of civil rights memory and representation in popular culture. Yet in dozens of southern communities, Black people picked up arms to defend their leaders, communities, and lives. In particular, Black people relied on armed self-defense in communities where federal government officials failed to safeguard activists and supporters from the violence of racists and segregationists, who were often supported by local law enforcement. In We Will Shoot Back: Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement, Akinyele Omowale Umoja argues that armed resistance was critical to the efficacy of the southern freedom struggle and the dismantling of segregation and Black disenfranchisement. Intimidation and fear were central to the system of oppression in Mississippi and most of the Deep South. To overcome the system of segregation, Black people had to overcome fear to present a significant challenge to White domination. Armed self-defense was a major tool of survival in allowing some Black southern communities to maintain their integrity and existence in the face of White supremacist terror. By 1965, armed resistance, particularly self-defense, was a significant factor in the challenge of the descendants of enslaved Africans to overturning fear and intimidation and developing different political and social relationships between Black and White Mississippians. This riveting historical narrative relies upon oral history, archival material, and scholarly literature to reconstruct the use of armed resistance by Black activists and supporters in Mississippi to challenge racist terrorism, segregation, and fight for human rights and political empowerment from the early 1950s through the late 1970s. Akinyele Omowale Umoja is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Georgia State University, where he teaches courses on the history of the Civil Rights, Black Power, and other social movements. |
| black history in mississippi: Black Votes Count Frank R. Parker, 2011-03-18 Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century. To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political massive resistance strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices as at-large elections, racial gerrymandering, making elective offices appointive, and revising the qualifications for candidates for public office. As legal challenges to these mechanisms mounted, Mississippi once again became the testing ground for deciding whether the promises of the Fifteenth Amendment would be fulfilled, and Parker describes the court battles that ensued until black voters obtained relief. |
| black history in mississippi: I've Got the Light of Freedom Charles M. Payne, 1995 This momentous work offers a groundbreaking history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Using wide-ranging archival work and extensive interviews with movement participants, Charles Payne uncovers a chapter of American social history forged locally, in places like Greenwood, Mississippi, where countless unsung African Americans risked their lives for the freedom struggle. The leaders were ordinary women and men--sharecroppers, domestics, high school students, beauticians, independent farmers--committed to organizing the civil rights struggle house by house, block by block, relationship by relationship. Payne brilliantly brings to life the tradition of grassroots African American activism, long practiced yet poorly understood. Payne overturns familiar ideas about community activism in the 1960s. The young organizers who were the engines of change in the state were not following any charismatic national leader. Far from being a complete break with the past, their work was based directly on the work of an older generation of activists, people like Ella Baker, Septima Clark, Amzie Moore, Medgar Evers, Aaron Henry. These leaders set the standards of courage against which young organizers judged themselves; they served as models of activism that balanced humanism with militance. While historians have commonly portrayed the movement leadership as male, ministerial, and well-educated, Payne finds that organizers in Mississippi and elsewhere in the most dangerous parts of the South looked for leadership to working-class rural Blacks, and especially to women. Payne also finds that Black churches, typically portrayed as frontrunners in the civil rights struggle, were in fact late supporters of the movement. |
| black history in mississippi: Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country Roy DeBerry, Aviva Futorian, Stephen Klein, John Lyons, 2020-07-23 Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors’ approach places the region’s history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos covering more than a century’s worth of history, the volume presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving for the prize of equality and justice. |
| black history in mississippi: The Negro in Mississippi 1865-1890 Vernon Lane Wharton, 1984 |
| black history in mississippi: A Lynching in the Heartland NA NA, 2016-04-30 On a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion, Indiana was ever punished for the murders. In this gripping account, James H. Madison refutes the popular perception that lynching was confined to the South, and clarifies 20th century America's painful encounters with race, justice, and memory. |
| black history in mississippi: A Black Physician's Story Douglas L. Conner, 1985 The autobiography of a black doctor in white Mississippi during the Jim Crow era and the fierce struggle for civil rights |
| black history in mississippi: Mississippi to Madrid James Yates, 1989 From his birth to a sharecropper family in the cotton fields of Mississippi to the unrest in Chicago and New York during the Depression, James Yates' experience with labor protest and union organizing shaped his vision of freedom and led to his decision to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. |
| black history in mississippi: The Deepest South of All Richard Grant, 2021-08-31 Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote-- |
| black history in mississippi: Thunder of Freedom , 2013 The world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue (Lorenzi) Sojourner and her husband, Henry Lorenzi, arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the wake of this historic time, known as Freedom Summer. From her arrival in September 1964 until her departure in 1969, Sojourner amassed an extensive collection of photographs, oral histories, and documents chronicling the dramatic events she witnessed. Thunder of Freedom weaves together Sojourner's interviews and photographs with accounts of her own experiences as an activist during the movement. |
| black history in mississippi: The Jim Crow Routine Stephen A. Berrey, 2015-04-27 The South's system of Jim Crow racial oppression is usually understood in terms of legal segregation that mandated the separation of white and black Americans. Yet, as Stephen A. Berrey shows, it was also a high-stakes drama that played out in the routines of everyday life, where blacks and whites regularly interacted on sidewalks and buses and in businesses and homes. Every day, individuals made, unmade, and remade Jim Crow in how they played their racial roles--how they moved, talked, even gestured. The highly visible but often subtle nature of these interactions constituted the Jim Crow routine. In this study of Mississippi race relations in the final decades of the Jim Crow era, Berrey argues that daily interactions between blacks and whites are central to understanding segregation and the racial system that followed it. Berrey shows how civil rights activism, African Americans' refusal to follow the Jim Crow script, and national perceptions of southern race relations led Mississippi segregationists to change tactics. No longer able to rely on the earlier routines, whites turned instead to less visible but equally insidious practices of violence, surveillance, and policing, rooted in a racially coded language of law and order. Reflecting broader national transformations, these practices laid the groundwork for a new era marked by black criminalization, mass incarceration, and a growing police presence in everyday life. |
| black history in mississippi: Spies of Mississippi Rick Bowers, 2010-01-12 The Spies of Mississippi is a compelling story of how state spies tried to block voting rights for African Americans during the Civil Rights era. This book sheds new light on one of the most momentous periods in American history. Author Rick Bowers has combed through primary-source materials and interviewed surviving activists named in once-secret files, as well as the writings and oral histories of Mississippi civil rights leaders. Readers get first-hand accounts of how neighbors spied on neighbors, teachers spied on students, ministers spied on church-goers, and spies even spied on spies. The Spies of Mississippi will inspire readers with the stories of the brave citizens who overcame the forces of white supremacy to usher in a new era of hope and freedom—an age that has recently culminated in the election of Barack Obama |
| black history in mississippi: The Racial Divide in American Medicine Richard D. deShazo, 2018-07-30 Contributions by Richard D. deShazo, John Dittmer, Keydron K. Guinn, Lucius M. Lampton, Wilson F. Minor, Rosemary Moak, Sara B. Parker, Wayne J. Riley, Leigh Baldwin Skipworth, Robert Smith, and William F. Winter The Racial Divide in American Medicine documents the struggle for equity in health and health care by African Americans in Mississippi and the United States and the connections between what happened there and the national search for social justice in health care. Dr. Richard D. deShazo and the contributors to the volume trace the dark journey from a system of slave hospitals in the state, through Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the civil rights era, to the present day. They substantiate that current health disparities are directly linked to America’s history of separation, neglect, struggle, and disparities. Contributors reveal details of individual physicians’ journeys for recognition both as African Americans and as professionals in Mississippi. Despite discrimination by their white colleagues and threats of violence, a small but fearless group of African American physicians fought for desegregation of American medicine and society. For example, T. R. M. Howard, MD, in the all-black city of Mound Bayou led a private investigation of the Emmett Till murder that helped trigger the civil rights movement. Later, other black physicians risked their lives and practices to provide care for white civil rights workers during the civil rights movement. Dr. deShazo has assembled an accurate account of the lives and experiences of black physicians in Mississippi, one that gives full credit to the actions of these pioneers. Dr. deShazo’s introduction and the essays address ongoing isolation and distrust among black and white colleagues. This book will stimulate dialogue, apology, and reconciliation, with the ultimate goal of improving disparities in health and health care and addressing long-standing injustices in our country. |
| black history in mississippi: Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787-1865 Christopher P. Lehman, 2014-01-10 Although the passing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially free, slavery in fact persisted in the region through the end of the Civil War. Slaves accompanied presidential appointees serving as soldiers or federal officials in the Upper Mississippi, worked in federally supported mines, and openly accompanied southern travelers. Entrepreneurs from the East Coast started pro-slavery riverfront communities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota to woo vacationing slaveholders. Midwestern slaves joined their southern counterparts in suffering family separations, beatings, auctions, and other indignities that accompanied status as chattel. This revealing work explores all facets of the peculiar institution in this peculiar location and its impact on the social and political development of the United States. |
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Black Landownership and Heirs Property in American History
In 1900, 85% of all black agriculturalists in Mississippi were sharecroppers; by 1935, 77% of all black farmers were landless. 1890 Morrill Act ... Black Landownership and Heirs Property in …
Wednesdays in Mississippi: Uniting Women across Regional …
Kohlenburg Zetzel, the National Archives for Black Women's History, and the Wednesdays in Mississippi Film Project. 2 A few organizations made a cognizant effort to work within, or at …
History of Plantations and Slavery in Mississippi - Behind the …
established in Mississippi, and by 1860, it was producing more cotton than any other state in the nation. These cotton planters relied entirely upon the labor of slaves, so Mississippi’s enslaved …
Black History Month Resource Guide (2025) - unitedwaysca.org
Black History Month 2024 Theme. The History Behind BHM. BHM Bingo Board. Little Known Black History Facts. Podcasts. Adult Books. Children’s Picture Books. ... Born in Kosciusko, …
The Journal of Mississippi History
Mississippi History Fall/Winter 2018. Recent Manuscript Accessions to Historic Repositories 179 in Mississippi By Mona Vance-Ali ... of Negro Women in the Black Freedom Struggle By …
Fun Facts: Black (African American) History Month
• Oprah Winfrey – Kosciusko, Mississippi (Pop. – 6,842) First African American to own her own TV studio. Best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show. What’s the Age? ... • …
2025 Black History Theme Executive Summary
The 2025 Black History Month theme, African Americans, and Labor, focuses on the various and profound ways that work and. working of all kinds – free and unfree, skilled, and unskilled, …
Mississippi Only Young Once - Southern Poverty Law Center
Black youth. • In Mississippi, Black youth are 3.9 times more likely to be incarcerated than their white counterparts. • Black youth in Mississippi are more likely to be referred to youth court, …
Freedom Songs: Helping Black Activists, Black Residents, and …
The Mississippi Summer Project, better known today as Freedom Sum-mer, was born out of desperation. Leading up to the project, black activists ... and included no treatment of black …
Journal of Mississippi History - University of Southern …
for Civil Rights in Marks, Mississippi. by Jonathan Soucek. JONATHAN SOUCEK is a teaching assistant in the Purdue University History Department. The Black community in Marks, …
Mississippi: A History - OldBlue Publishing
Mississippi: A History by John K. Bettersworth, published in 1959, was the Mississippi history textbook used by students in the Tupelo public school system in the late 1950s into the 1960s. I …
Michael Bloomberg ends - The Mississippi Link
death in June 1963. (History.com). His Jackson, Miss. home today is one of Mississippi’s frequently-visited historic points of interest by many tourists. Although not widely known due to …
Italians in the Delta: The Evolution of an Unusual Immigration
Italians hungry for more knowledge of their families’ history. He has become a Mississippi Italian version of Alex Haley, whose exploration of his own roots inspired countless black Americans …
Let Our Voices Be Heard: The 1963 Struggle for Voting Rights …
The 1963 Struggle for Voting Rights in Mississippi Topic: Voting rights for African Americans in Mississippi in the early 1960s Grade Level: 9-12 Subject Area: US History after World War II; …
Reading: Excerpt from Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
Excerpt from Mississippi Black Codes (1865) CIVIL RIGHTS OF FREEDMENSection 3: … [I]t shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro or mulatto ... Reading: Excerpt from Mississippi …
African-American Studies - Columbus City Schools
Introduction - Why Study Black History? - C3 Framework Dimensions 1-4 HMH African American History, Chapter 1. Beginnings in Africa AAS Learning Target 1 HMH African American History, …
The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored
episode well illustrates the role of violence in shaping black history in the post-Reconstruction South. It also helps explain why the Colored Farmers' Alliance, which may have been the …
Mississippi's School Equalization Program, 1945-1954: 'A …
The History of School Desegregation (Westport, Conn., and London, 1983); J. Harvie Wilkinson ... A statewide mass meeting of black leaders 6 Mississippi Educational Journal, XVIII (October …
Minority Settlement in the Mississippi River Counties of the …
has an extensive history of experiments with drainage ditches, levees and reservoirs to control the Delta's water. Major floods occurred in the Delta river counties in 1882, 1883, 1884, 1886, ...
'White Negroes' in Segregated Mississippi: Miscegenation, …
and in 1963 he counseled Governor Ross Barnett to close the University of Mississippi Law School rather than permit it to enroll a black student. Erle Johnston, Mississippi 's De-fiant …
Mississippi Black Codes - World Library
Mississippi Black Codes (1865) The status of Blacks was the focal problem of Reconstruction. Slavery had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, but the white people of the South …
United States Agriculture Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000
for black farmers to retain their ownership of land. They essentially helped keep alive a traditional aspira-tion for independent farming. This report reviews the history of black farmers to explore …
The Journal of Mississippi History - Archive.org
Mississippi History EDITOR-IN-CHIEF H. T. Holmes, Department of Archives and History EDITOR Kenneth McCartv’, University of Southern Mississippi ... 2 THE JOURNAL OF …
A BRIEF HISTORY OF - Columbus Air Force Base
A SHORT HISTORY OF COLUMBUS AIR FORCE BASE, MISSISSIPPI The installation’s history began on 26 June 1941 when the War Depart-ment approved an Army Air Field for the …
Slaves and Slaveholders in the Choctaw Nation: 1830-1866
1 John D. W. Guice, Face to Face in Mississippi Territory, 1789-1817. In The Choctaw before Removal, ed. Carolyn Keller Reeves (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985), 158; …
The Journal of Mississippi History
The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published quarterly by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North St., Jackson, MS 39201, in cooperation with ...
Theodore G. Bilbo and the Decline of Public Racism, 1938-1947
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954–1980 (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981), 11. John Dittmer, Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Urbana: University of …
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"Big Man is a captivating biography of a Black Mississippi share-cropper who rises from the life of a sharecropper in the Jim Crow South to a career as a Hollywood stuntman, brilliantly …
The Journal of Mississippi History - University of Mississippi …
The University of Mississippi, the Board of Trustees, Students, 137 and Slavery: 1848–1860 . By Elias J. Baker. William Leon Higgs: Mississippi Radical 163. By Charles Dollar. 2017 …
Remembering and Forgeting Black Power in Mississippi …
thousands of peaceful protesters, the bombings of 30 black-owned buildings, and the de-struction of three-dozen black churches by fire (Marable 91).That year, white and black civil rights …
MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
Museums and documents the history of the project. Telling Our Stories: Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum was created by the Department of Archives and …
Reading: Excerpt from Mississippi Black Codes (1865)
Excerpt from Mississippi Black Codes (1865) CIVIL RIGHTSSectionOF3: …FREEDMEN[I]t shall not be lawful for any freedman, free negro or mulatto to intermarry with any white person; nor …
The Journal of Mississippi History
Hunter, Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century 253 By Nicol Allen Meacham, Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi 255 By Andrew Harrison …
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: A HISTORY OF BLACK …
Feb 19, 1990 · THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION IN MISSISSIPPI 230 APPENDIX 231 AFRICAN AMERICAN POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES, 1790-1890 232 . ... been in …
Mississippi - files.lib.byu.edu
The Family History Library has copies of many of the county, chancery, and circuit court records. For example, the library has Hinds County court records from about 1850 to 1910. From the …
Black Legislative Politics in Mississippi - JSTOR
Clark are an integral part of the history of Black legislators in the state of Mississippi. Thus, a brief synopsis of these events is detailed next. The MFDP, a product of the Student Nonviolent …
The Journal of Mississippi History
Mississippi History Fall/Winter 2022. The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published by the ... Black homes used outdoor toilets or lacked toilet facilities completely. Black …
Midwives Of Mississippi
Mississippi. Together, black midwives and white nurses would help to implement a new public healthcare structure in Mississippi during the 1920s. Records of the Mississippi State Board of …
The Creek Indians, Blacks, and Slavery - JSTOR
that the leading Upper Creek chief of the late colonial period was a black man, this is most assuredly not the case. The Creeks did not equate ... Education of the Catawba Indians," …
Fun Facts: African American (Black) History Month
Fun Facts: African American (Black) History Month Notes: All of the data on this page, except the birthplace populations, is for the Black or African American alone population. ... Mississippi …
Segregation in Mississippi in 1960 - Wisconsin Historical …
How were Black people’s lives different from white people’s? What do ... Background Information Although slavery had ended 100 years earlier, African Americans in Mississippi had been kept …
Title: Excerpts from The Black Codes of Mississippi, 1865
the North as well as the Republicans in Congress were alarmed by the Black Codes. Reaction to the codes helped to radicalize Congress and catalyzed its attempt to seize control of …
The Journal of Mississippi History
“The Colored Troops Fought Like Tigers”: Black 81 Mississippians in the Union Army, 1863–1866 By Jeff T. Giambrone A Soldier’s Legacy: William T. Rigby and the Establishment 93 ... The …
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desantis and black history: Our History Has Always Been Contraband Colin Kaepernick, Robin D. G. Kelley, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, 2023-05-24 The centuries-long attack on Black history …
TIMELINE: 1860-1920 - National Humanities Center
black voters, Mississippi institutes a literacy test, a poll tax, and the figrandfather clause.fl By 1910, most southern states pass similar laws. Louisiana enacts Jim Crow legislation to …
Population and Race in Mississippi, 1940-1960 - JSTOR
KEY WORDS: Mississippi, Population change, Population density, Racial disparities. THE population geography of the southeast-ern United States has been affected sig-nificantly by the …
“Jewel of the Delta,” – Mound Bayou, Mississippi
This is a book of knowledge, history, research (with complete proof), about the “Jewel of the Delta,” Mound Bayou, Mississippi. It is designed to help you really understand the “Jewel of the …
The Struggle for Voting Rights in Mississippi ~ The Early …
lynched or assassinated each year in Mississippi since the 1880s. In 1961, less than 7% of Mississippi Blacks are regis tered to vote — in many Black-majority counties not a single Black …
MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
HISTORY MISSISSIPPIof The Journal of MISSISSIPPI HISTORY u Volume LXXXII, Nº3 and Nº4 Fall/Winter 2020 u Volume LXXXII, Nº3 and Nº4 Fall/Winter 2020 JouThernal HISTORY ...
The Journal of Mississippi History
vigilantism and voter intimidation to block black voter participation. Nevertheless, some of the earlier articles published about Reconstruction are still insightful for the modern reader. During …
