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This subcategory contains 44 links "Perthshire is a plantation in Bolivar County, in the center of the Mississippi Delta. One family has owned the plantation for four generations. Many families have worked it. Throughout this time, Perthshire had a community life like that of any small town--with currency, laws, social activities, churches, schools, store, a rail depot, and a baseball team of its own. Using oral histories, films, photographs, letters, legal documents, and maps, One Hundred Years at Perthshire is a multimedia web site that explores the life of this plantation as it underwent the tremendous changes of the twentieth century." Jimmie Rodgers by Ray L. Bellande Her life in Mississippi in the 19th century. by LeAnne Howe by Hazel Brannon Smith by Greg O’Brien "The rich alluvial plain that is the Delta landscape, and home to Clarksdale, gives visitors to North Mississippi a wonderful backdrop in which they can start their journey through the "birthplace of the blues". The Delta Blues Museum's mission is to assure that visitors learn about the Delta Blues, and stands ready to share that knowledge with all who come." This compilation of 'never before seen' photographs paired with the oral history shared by each donor creates a unique look at the history of many Mississippi Delta towns, events, people and places. This piece was a final project of the History Channel's "Save Our History" Grant awarded to the Delta Center for Culture The Broom "The First Monday Sale and Trade Days (generally known as ?First Monday?) has been part of Ripley?s community life since 1893. Originally held on the first Monday of every month, it now takes place on the weekend preceding the first Monday." Mississippi was one the the most important lumber industry states. History told through historical markers RACE:MISSISSIPPI TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE HARNED VIDEO SEGMENT. Horace Harned, Plantation Owner, Oktoc, Mississippi Vimeo video. Produced by the Department of History and the Media and Documentary Projects Center at the University of Mississippi. This Oral History based film was produced by history graduate students and documents the experiences of women in Northeast Mississippi who "Made Do" over the course of the 20th Century. By Jack Elliot, Jr. "The Mississippi Black Code is an example of the manner by which the southern states strove to maintain the old order while limiting the newly acquired rights of African Americans. Many people in 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 Reconstruction from the President Andrew Johnson, ultimately leading to the president’s impeachment." Mississippi Folklife, formerly the Mississippi Folklore Register, publishes articles, photographic essays, and interviews about the diversity of folklife and culture in Mississippi and adjoining regions. The best source for contemporary interpretations of Mississippi folk culture, each issue also includes announcements, cultural news, and book reviews. From the Mississippi Historical Society Short silent film produced by the Signal Corps of the Mississippi flood of 1927. hort silent film produced by the Signal Corps of the Mississippi flood of 1927. Reel 1, flood waters rage through Illinois, carrying houses and debris. Kleinwood, La., is under water. Marooned families, their salvaged possessions, and livestock cling to levees. Sec. of Commerce Hoover meets Red Cross heads. Army troops load equipment on freight cars. Levees are reinforced at Baton Rouge. Coast Guard cutters and miscellaneous craft evacuate people and animals in La. Reel 2, Hoover and Sec. of War Davis inspect flooded areas at Vicksburg and along the River to Natchez. Refugees are inoculated, fed, and given shelter at an Army camp in Louisiana. The site includes actors and artists as well. A high school student project. by Greg O'Brien Mississippi Freedom Summer "Most of the photographs on this website are from “Old Ways: Church and Family,” an exhibition held at the Center’s Gammill Gallery in the fall of 2001. The pictures were made at Hurricane Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Rocky Mount Primitive Baptist Church, both located in rural north Mississippi and both pastored by 92-year-old Elder Robert Atwater." by Jason Phillips Sam H. Bowers, Jr., was convicted in 1998 for his role in the 1966 firebombing death of Mississippi civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. Bowers died November 6, 2006, in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman. Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, 1994-2006 comprises the digitized records of the defunct Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, which functioned as the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956-1973 For over twenty years, the MsACLU has been involved in an effort to preserve and make public the records of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state spying agency founded in the 1950s and operating through the early 1970s. The purpose of the Sovereignty Commission was to counter the Civil Rights movement; to accomplish this purpose, the agencies activities ranged from spying to public relations. Original essay by James Miller. by Deanne Stephens Nuwer Anna Hardeman Meade. Life on a Mississippi plantation Memory and Judgment by Jane Adams and D. Gorton |
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