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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.
Cat Cora (born 1967), first female Iron Chef America in franchise history ; Margaret Ferguson (born 1968), political scientist (Hattiesburg) Jeff Fort (born 1947), leader of Black P. Stones Nation ; Natalee Holloway (born 1986), unsolved disappearance ; Larry Hoover (born 1950), leader of Gangster Disciple Nation
Slavery in the colonial history of the US; Revolutionary War; Antebellum period; 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 ...
McMillen, Neil R. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow (1989) Morris, Tiyi M. Womanpower Unlimited and the Black Freedom Struggle in Mississippi (University of Georgia Press, 2015), 237 pp. Namorato, Michael V. The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911–1984: A History (1998) 313 pp. Nash, Jere, and Andy Taggart.
Clarie Collins Harvey (born Emma Augusta Clarie Collins; November 27, 1916 - May 27, 1995) was an African American businesswoman, religious leader and prominent activist during the civil rights movement in Mississippi.
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.
The MFDP hoped to become the officially recognized Democratic Party organization in Mississippi by winning the Mississippi seats at the 1964 Democratic National Convention for a slate of delegates elected by some black and white Mississippians. Building the MFDP was a major thrust of the Freedom Summer project. After it proved to be impossible ...
Mississippians defended slavery in speech and through the press, arguing that slavery improved the physical and moral conditions of the enslaved people, who were otherwise "ignorant". In 1846, a writer in Columbus, Mississippi, wrote that "habits of industry, improves the physical man, tames wild propensities and passions." Additionally, a ...