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Red Shoes (died 1747), assassinated Choctaw leader; Clarke Reed (born 1928), state Republican chairman ; Jack Reed (1924–2016), Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1987; Bill Renick (born 1954), mayor, governor's chief of staff ; Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901), first African-American U.S. senator (Claiborne County)
Partial scan of the March 24, 1836 Telegraph and Texas Register with the first Texian list of defenders killed at the Battle of the Alamo. The Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836) was a crucial conflict of the Texas Revolution.
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 .
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.
Lamar "Ditney" Smith (1892 – August 13, 1955) was an American civil rights figure, African-American farmer, World War I veteran [1] and an organizer of voter registration for African-Americans. In 1955, he was shot dead in broad daylight around 10 a.m. at close range on the lawn of the Lincoln County courthouse in Brookhaven, Mississippi .
George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. He was assassinated in 1955 in ...
Gus Courts (May 2, 1887 – April 23, 1969) was an American grocery store proprietor and African-American civil rights leader. In 1953, Courts and Rev. George W. Lee founded the Humphreys County, Mississippi chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). As he led a voting rights and registration drive in the ...
In 1964, Allen was killed after informing federal investigators of his forced testimony. [2] [4] Those who were aware of Lee's voting rights activities knew he was targeted in this killing. Ten days after his death, 115 black high school students marched through McComb, Mississippi, in protest of his murder. [2]