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John R. Lynch (1847–1939), first African-American speaker of the Mississippi House, U.S. representative ; Ray Mabus (born 1948), governor and Secretary of the Navy ; Lewis McAllister (born 1932), state representative ; Glenn McCullough (born 1954), mayor of Tupelo ; Chris McDaniel (born 1971), state senator
African Americans in Mississippi African-American Monument at Vicksburg National Military Park in Vicksburg, 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 ...
Medgar Wiley Evers (/ ˈ m ɛ d ɡ ər /; July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an American civil rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi.
Amzie Moore (September 23, 1911 – February 1, 1982) was an African-American civil rights leader and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta. He helped lead voter registration efforts. His former home in Cleveland, Mississippi, is a Mississippi Landmark. A historical marker commemorates its history. [1] It is now a museum and interpretive center.
Hartman Turnbow (March 20, 1905 – August 15, 1988) [1] [2] was a Mississippi farmer, orator, and activist during the Civil Rights Movement.On April 9, 1963, Turnbow was one of the first African Americans to attempt to register to vote in Mississippi, along with a group called the "First Fourteen".
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African American youth who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store.
The Freedom Vote accomplished four goals: It protested the exclusion of blacks by the Mississippi Democratic Party, educated black Mississippians about how to register and vote, proved that black Mississippians were interested in voting and interested in change, and helped attract the attention of the federal administration to the fact that ...
Minnie M. Geddings was born in 1869 to Mary Geddings and William Geddings in Lexington, Mississippi. [2] Though not much is known about her early life, it is possible that her family fared better than many other Black families in the Mississippi Delta as her parents owned a restaurant and she was able to attend Fisk University, a Historically Black University in Nashville, Tennessee. [3]