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The Vicksburg Times, which became the Vicksburg Daily Times, was a newspaper in Vicksburg, Mississippi in the United States. [1] The paper was established in 1866 by Harvey Shannon and Thomas Bolling Manlove who bought out The Journal. William H. McCardle bought out Manlove’s share the following summer and served as the paper’s editor until ...
Vicksburg is a historic city in Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is the county seat. The population was 21,573 at the 2020 census. [5] Located on a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River across from Louisiana, Vicksburg was built by French colonists in 1719. The outpost withstood an attack from the native Natchez people.
Colored Citizen (Vicksburg), a newspaper first published in Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1867, created by a Black civic leader, Henry Mason. [1] Colored Citizen (Jackson) established in 1870 in Jackson, Mississippi by James D. Lynch of Hinds County. It was the third Black newspaper to be created in Mississippi. [1] The Colored Citizen (Pensacola ...
University newspapers. The Black Sheep - student newspaper of the University of Mississippi. The Daily Mississippian – student newspaper of the University of Mississippi. The Reflector – student newspaper of Mississippi State University. The Mississippi Collegian - student newspaper of Mississippi College.
August 31, 2024 at 9:25 PM. The potential cause of the fatal bus accident in Mississippi that left two young siblings and five other passengers dead, and several others injured, has been revealed ...
A surviving issue of the Vicksburg Golden Rule, from 1899.. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Mississippi.It includes both current and historical newspapers.
Colored Citizen (Vicksburg) The Colored Citizen was the first African American newspaper published in Mississippi. It was founded by Henry Mayson in 1867, and it probably died by 1868. According to Mayson, the paper sought racial equality and the elimination of racial discrimination, including in school funding schemes.
Vicksburg was strategically vital to the Confederates. Jefferson Davis said, "Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the South's two halves together." [4] While in their hands, it blocked Union navigation down the Mississippi; together with control of the mouth of the Red River and of Port Hudson to the south, it allowed communication with the states west of the river, upon which the ...