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In 2010, Life on the Mississippi was adapted as a stage musical, with book and lyrics by Douglas M. Parker and music by Denver Casado. It was produced that year in Kansas City, Missouri, and Door County, Wisconsin. In 2013, Life on the Mississippi, a musical play by Philip Hall, was performed at the Workshop Theater Company in New York. It was ...
Since the assignment of a federal registrar in the county in November 1965, the FDP registered thousands of black voters for the first time since the disfranchisement of their ancestors in 1890. Clark was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives in 1967 by the black majority of the county, taking his seat on January 2, 1968.
Old Times on the Mississippi is a memoir by Mark Twain. It was published in 1876. A serialized version of the work first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly Magazine published in 1875. It was later incorporated into his 1883 work, Life on the Mississippi.
Horace Ezra Bixby (May 8, 1826 – August 1, 1912) was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi-Missouri-Ohio river system from the late 1840s until his death in 1912. [1] Bixby is notable in his own right for his high standing in his profession, for his technical contributions to it, and for his service in the American Civil War.
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 16 February 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For the river, see Mississippi River. For other uses, see Mississippi (disambiguation). State in the United States Mississippi State Flag Seal Nickname(s): "The Magnolia State" and "The Hospitality State" Motto(s): Virtute et armis (Latin ...
Anna Wolfe won a Pulitzer for exposing how Mississippi spent its federal welfare money. Now former Gov. Phil Bryant is trying to force her to reveal her sources, and she may go to jail for refusing.
Harris published his first work, Mississippi Solo, an account of his journey by canoe down the entire length of the nation's major waterway, in 1988.This work combined aspects of journalism, travel writing, autobiography and memoir, and personal reflection, and, as with Harris's subsequent works, focused specifically on questions of African-American identity in relation to history and place.