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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)
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.
Doris "Dorie" Miller (October 12, 1919 – November 24, 1943) was a U.S. Navy sailor who was the first Black recipient of the Navy Cross and a nominee for the Medal of Honor. As a mess attendant second class [1] [2] in the United States Navy, Miller helped carry wounded sailors to safety during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The East St. Louis riots or East St. Louis massacres, of late May and July 1–3, 1917, were an outbreak of labor- and race-related violence by whites that caused the death of 40–250 black people and about $400,000 (over $8 million, in 2017 US dollars) in property damage. An estimated 6,000 black people were left homeless. May 1918 Erwin ...
The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of Mississippi since capital punishment was resumed in the United States in 1976. Since 1976, 23 people convicted of capital murder have been executed by the state of Mississippi. Of the 23 people executed, 4 were executed via gas chamber and 19 via lethal injection. [1]
Mississippi Cold Case is a 2007 feature documentary produced by David Ridgen of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation about the Ku Klux Klan murders of two 19-year-old black men, Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore, in Southwest Mississippi in May 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement and Freedom Summer. It also explores the 21st-century ...
Herbert Lee (January 1, 1912 – September 25, 1961) was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi remembered as a proponent of voting rights for African Americans in that state, who had been disenfranchised since 1890.
On June 21, 1964, three Civil Rights Movement activists, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Micheal Schwerner, were murdered by local members of the Ku Klux Klan.They had been arrested earlier in the day for speeding, and after being released were followed by local law enforcement & others, all affiliated with the White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. [1]