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  2. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    During the early through mid-20th century, the two waves of the Great Migration led to hundreds of thousands of rural blacks leaving the state. As a result, by the 1930s, African Americans were a minority of the state population for the first time since the early 19th century. They would remain a majority of the population in many Delta counties.

  3. History of laws concerning immigration and naturalization in ...

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    U.S. immigration policy of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Immigration Policy Center. History of Immigration. Archived 2014-12-20 at the Wayback Machine; Smith, Marian. '"Any woman who is now or may hereafter be married ..." Women and Naturalization, ca. 1802–1940'. Prologue, Summer 1998, vol. 30, no. 2.

  4. Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    From 1800 to about 1830, ... [177] [178] Same-sex marriage became legal in Mississippi on June 26, ... In the early 20th century, there were still few schools in ...

  5. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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    Podell (1975), the Supreme Court of Wisconsin decided that a woman upon marriage adopts the last name of her husband by customarily using that name after marriage, but also stated that no law required her to. [188] Illinois: The 79th General Assembly enacts the Illinois Abortion Law, which included a trigger law that provided that if Roe v.

  6. History of courtship in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Great Depression put a damper on courtship; few could afford an extravagant social whirl, much less consider early marriage. In 1932, the marriage rate, which had been 10.14 per 1,000 three years earlier, fell to 7.9 per 1,000. [8]: 299 Men were less likely to consider themselves financially secure enough for marriage.

  7. African Americans in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    By 1719, the first African slaves arrived. Most of those early enslaved people in Mississippi were Caribbean Creoles. [6] The movement of importing black slaves to Mississippi peaked in the 1830s, when more than 100,000 black slaves may have entered Mississippi. [7] The largest slave market was located at the Forks of the Road in Natchez. [8]

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