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Susan Akin (born 1965), Miss Mississippi 1985 and Miss America 1986 ; Asya Branch (born 1998), Miss Mississippi 2018, Miss Mississippi USA 2019, and Miss USA 2020 ; Jenna Edwards (born 1981), former Miss Florida and Miss Florida USA ; Ruth Ford (1911–2009), model
Pages in category "Lists of people from Mississippi" ... List of first women lawyers and judges in Mississippi; M. ... Mississippi State Treasurer
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]
Macon, Mississippi, race riot; March Against Fear; Margaret Walker Center; Mary Holmes College; Meridian Baptist Seminary; Meridian race riot of 1871; Mae Louise Miller; Mississippi Cold Case; Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party; Mississippi Plan; Mississippi State Federation of Colored Women's Clubs; Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission ...
Mississippi's 6th District (Created by State Legislature) 1873 1883 Republican Minnie Buckingham Harper: 1 st African-American woman to serve in any state legislature Rep. from Keystone, West Virginia: 1928 1930 Crystal Bird Fauset: 1 st African-American woman elected to any state legislature 18th District of Pennsylvania 1938 1940 Democratic ...
Clarke was first elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 69th district in 1984. She was the first black woman elected to the Mississippi Legislature. [1] She worked on bringing the federal Women, Infants and Children food program to the state, setting up drug courts and organizing school breakfasts. [3]
The state of North Carolina purchased the campus for $239,000 and it eventually became the East Campus of North Carolina A&T State University. Jackson Junior College: Marianna: Florida: 1961 1966 Public One of eleven black junior colleges founded in Florida after the Brown v.
This category is for people from the United States state of Mississippi Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : Mississippi Also: Countries : United States : States : Mississippi : People