Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 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.
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
M. Macon, Mississippi, race riot; March Against Fear; Margaret Walker Center; Mary Holmes College; Meridian Baptist Seminary; Meridian race riot of 1871; Mae Louise Miller
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 history; Black Belt in the American South; Business history; Military history ...
This is a list of African Americans, also known as Black Americans (for the outdated and unscientific racial term) or Afro-Americans.African Americans are an ethnic group consisting of citizens of the United States mainly descended from various West African and Central African peoples with possible minor additional ancestry from Europe or indigenous Americans and other regions of Africa.
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.
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.