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African Americans in Mississippi. African Americans in Mississippi or Black Mississippians are residents of the state of Mississippi who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2019 U.S. Census estimates, African Americans were 37.8% of the state's population which is the highest in the nation.
Lawrence Gordon (born 1936), film producer, Die Hard ; Jonathan Murray (born 1955), creator of the reality television genre ; Patrik-Ian Polk (born 1973), film writer and director (Hattiesburg) Bryan Spears (born 1977), film and television producer ; Tate Taylor (born 1969), film director of The Help and Get On Up
Pages in category "African-American history of Mississippi" The following 98 pages are in this category, out of 98 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fences (film) Fifty Shades of Black; The Fighting Temptations; List of films about black girlhood; Fingers in the Wind; First Lady of BMF: The Tonesa Welch Story; First Sunday; The Five Heartbeats; The Flying Ace; For Colored Girls; For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story; Four Brothers (film) Fresh (1994 film) Friday (1995 film) Friday After ...
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
Slavery and military history during the Civil War; Reconstruction era. Politicians; Juneteenth; Civil rights movement (1865–1896) Jim Crow era (1896–1954) Civil rights movement (1954–1968) Black power movement; Post–civil rights era; Aspects; Agriculture history; Black Belt in the American South; Business history; Military history ...
African-American women and African-American gay and lesbian women have also made advances directing films, in Radha Blank's comic The 40-Year-Old Version (2020), Ava DuVernay's fanciful rendition of the children's classic A Wrinkle in Time [1] [59] or Angela Robinson's short film D.E.B.S. (2003) turned feature-length adaptation in 2004.
She fought for the right to quality public housing, invested in black businesses and when she saw companies like Sears take advantage of the socioeconomically and racially oppressed, she immediately sold her stocks. [12] Harvey worked with Mayor Allen Thompson to improve the living conditions of economically oppressed black Mississippians.