The History of The State of Mississippi

The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was an American political party founded around the end of April of 1964. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, there goal was to contest the state's all white Democratic Party, during the civil rights movement. Black and white Mississippians organized with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Council of Federated Organizations, to challenge the legitimacy of the white only Democratic Party. For years, the blacks in Mississippi had been denied their rights to participate in the electoral process. The group wanted to run several candidates for the Senate and Congressional elections on June 2, 1964. The group began to protest the Democratic Party who wanted to seat an all-white delegation

The novel Mississippi Mud illustrates a murder of an illustrious couple that would shake the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, as well as, unveil political corruption structured around the Dixie Mafia. Vincent and Margret Sherry, the couple whom had been murdered, were loving parents to four children, which all were adults. However it was their oldest daughter, Lynne Sposito, which is responsible for discovering the motive for her parents’ murder and the killer responsible for it. She reveals the secrets and the cesspool of corruption that lies within Biloxi. Within this mirage Kirksey McCord Nix, Junior, is presented as a character that, some may consider being born with a silver spoon, being that his mother and father both were highly successful attorneys. Mister Nix juniors’ mother was the first woman to practice law in the state of Mississippi and his father was a senator in Oklahoma. Virtually speaking he was born and raised in the legal realm which caused him to have tons of political clout that would fuel the desperado mentality he developed as a child.

The Mississippian time period was the period that a lot of amphibians and lizard like creatures were formed which was major to leading up to the jurassic and triassic witch when thing got bigger which was the effect of leading to those I this time period was to 359.9 to 323.2 million years ago. It was later than the jurassic and triassic period so the thing in this time period were little not as big as the up coming periods and eras. In this period the Gondwana was just coming in and the Euramerica which was kinda of a fish like thing.

In my initial post, I also discussed the economic factor for the Southern States seceding from the Union; however, the Mississippi Declaration of Secession says two main factors for the state decision of seceding from the Union than the economic factor. Historians do not use a small piece of evidence to decide what happened, they gather facts to reconstruct the events that have to transpire, and the same should be done when analyzing a primary document. On the Mississippi Declaration of Secession also states, “It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our social system. It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in its march of aggression

All universities have one primary purpose: to provide a higher education to its students. However, between any two universities there are some considerable differences in academics, campus size, and even athletics. Two such establishments are Mississippi State University and the University of Alabama.

Why some groups opposed Mississippi’s secession was that those people didn’t believe that it was right to keep slaves, no one really minded it till after the American Civil War when people started to realize that it was wrong to have slaves and that they should let them go and live a equals,but Mississippi and a few other states didn’t like this idea. So they decided to try and become their own free country.

Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History begins by providing the account of the Nullification Crisis that took place in 1832. The crisis began as a dispute between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over a series of national tariffs that many of the southerners viewed as excessive. (6) The leader of the nullification movement in Mississippi was John Anthony Quitman. Quitman died in 1859 and Mississippi finally left the Union in 1861. (8) As a result of the Nullification crisis, the Mexican War took place. Many Mississippians volunteered to fight with much enthusiasm. After nearly two years of war, America won. (11) From 1840-1860 Mississippi’s population doubled to almost 800,000 residents and by 1860 Mississippi’s institutions were hopelessly entangled in the web of slavery. The cotton based agriculture increased the need for slaves and by the eve of the Civil War slaves represented 55 percent of the state’s total population. (12) Mississippi’s ordinance of secession officially took them out of the union in 1861 leading up to the Civil War. (32)

The Mississippian culture was composed of a series of urban settlements and villages linked together by a loose trading network The Mississippian culture flourished from 800-1600 AD. It encompassed the southern shores of the Great Lakes at Western New York and Western Pennsylvania in the Eastern Midwest, all the way into the south/southwest of the Mississippi Valley and into the Southeastern United States.

According to these articles, the mainstream Southern perspective on the “Freedom Summer” activities of pro-civil right college students is that they are criminals. They also seem to view the disappearance and eventual murder of the three civil rights workers as unimportant and the fault of the victims, and not their attackers. In the article entitled, “Mississippi’s Lawless Invaders,” the reporter writes, “Much worse, however, is the planned lawlessness for which students are training on the campus of the Western College for Women in Oxford, Ohio. We refer to the so-called ‘student army’ that is beginning to enter Mississippi to break state laws and foment strife. This ‘army’ of young integrationists…[many of which] have never seen Mississippi...want to break its laws,” to express the popular opinion that the pro-civil rights college students are worse than other lawbreakers because they (the students) are actively choosing to break the law by favoring integration instead of segregation. The article labeled “Heart of Darkness,” the author writes about the discovery of three bodies, two of which have been identified as those of Mickey Schwerner and Andy Goodman, while the third body awaiting identification is most likely that of James Chaney; these were

The civil war was a major event in the history of Mississippi. The president during this time was Jefferson Davis during the years of 1861-1865. Mississippi was the second state to secede from the union. The view of the state was that it was necessity for the state to have slavery. So the white soldiers fought for the stand of keeping the slaves. Since they believed that the white citizens needed the slaves. Many of the battles were along the line of the Mississippi river. There were more than about 17,000 black men (Mississippi slaves) as well as freedmen that fought for the Union. There were 500 white men that fought for the Union as well. Many soldiers were upset when they realized that the war would be lost. In present time, it seemed that slavery was such a long time ago and long lost. What the people of Mississippi don’t realize the actual affect that it had. The men that were lost during the time period had wives and children that they left behind to start a new generation of what the fathers fought for.

Mississippi’s Civil War: A Narrative History begins by providing the account of the Nullification Crisis that took place in 1832. The crisis began as a dispute between the state of South Carolina and the federal government over a series of national tariffs that many of the southerners viewed as excessive. (6) The leader of the nullification movement in Mississippi was John Anthony Quitman. Quitman died in 1859 and the Mississippi finally left the Union in 1861. (8) As a result of the Nullification crisis, the Mexican War took place. Many Mississippians volunteered to fight with much enthusiasm. After nearly two years of war, America won. (11) From 1840-1860 Mississippi’s population doubled to almost 800,000 residents and by 1860 Mississippi’s institutions were hopelessly entangled in the web of slavery. The cotton based agriculture increased the need for slaves and by the eve of the Civil War slaves represented 55 percent of the state’s total population. (12) Mississippi’s ordinance of secession officially took them out of the union in 1861 leading up to the Civil War. (32)

The Confederate flag remains to be a hot topic that is drawing a lot of controversy in the state of Mississippi. Some individuals feel that the flag has a right to be flown all over the state; while, others can see it removed completely. The purpose of this paper is to discuss in detail four important topics as follows: (1) the history of the Confederate flag, (2) the economic impact, (3) state agencies and municipalities’ stance and (4) the Legislative position concerning the issue. The flag originated as a banner, but in today’s society is recognized as a symbol. The symbol of the flag represents the Confederate war. Because of strong emotional ties Confederate ancestors have a particular perception of the flag. However, everyone does not share the same opinion, some perceptions are different and often conflicts with what others understand the flag to mean (Coski, 2015).

Although I wasn’t in Mississippi during the ‘Freedom Summer’, I had a solid understanding of how life was during the ‘Freedom Summer’. This was years of racism and segregation towards the blacks in the US during the Civil Rights Movement. My aspect type was racism, and I learned of its impact on life through our analysis in the class of The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker, an epistolary novel about the lives of black people in rural dominated white racist Georgia during the 1920’s-50’s. Furthermore, we discussed Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural Speech in class, and how Mandela fought for Independence from the white racist government. With extra research of the Freedom Summer project launched by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

Soul Food includes, fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, collard greens, black eyed peas, cabbage, yams, mashed potatoes, corn bread, cracklin, fried fish, pig feet, chitterlings, rolls, sweet potatoe pie, cakes, peach cobbler, watermelon, and kool-aide etc. These meals are common meals generally associated with grandmothers and traditional moms from several years past.

The twentieth state of the United States had quite some history to go through, starting with what is its name, the natives that started and the slave trade that led to the unwanted war of America. Mississippi brought a lot nationalism which brought a lot of social inequality. This essay will lightly cover the background and history that Mississippi holds.