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The History of Italians in Mississippi is related to the Italian presence and emigration to the State of Mississippi in southern US. The immense obstacles that these Italian immigrants faced in assimilating into the broader society were far from easy, while also attempting to preserve their identity, culture, and traditions in a new land.
A February 2006 report from the Mississippi State Auditor found it challenging to accurately quantify the state costs of illegal immigration because of the inadequacy of records from state agencies, schools, and other government entities. Despite this challenge, the report estimates the state cost of illegal immigrants in 2006 to be about $25 ...
A History of Mississippi 2 vols. (1973), thorough coverage by scholars; Mitchell, Dennis J., A New History of Mississippi (2014) Ownby, Ted et al. eds. The Mississippi Encyclopedia (2017) Sansing, David G. Making Haste Slowly: The Troubled History of Higher Education in Mississippi (University Press of Mississippi, 2004) Skates, John Ray.
The origins of comeback sauce are closely tied to the history of Greek immigration in Mississippi—many Greek immigrants struggling with language barriers found work in Jackson restaurants.
According to the American Immigration Council’s most recent report in 2020, there are about 20,000 undocumented immigrants in Mississippi, comprising 35% of the total immigrant population in the ...
The population of the Mississippi Delta Chinese exploded after war. Many young Chinese men from the Mississippi Delta served as soldiers during the Second World War, and many women from China married these soldiers and settled in the Delta as war brides after the war. By the 1970s there were as many as 3,000 Americans of Chinese descent living ...
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley in western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Good examples of this culture are the Medora site (the type site for the culture and period) in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana , and the Anna , Emerald Mound , Winterville and Holly Bluff sites located in ...
Dozens of immigrant workers have been released a day after being detained in the largest immigration raid in a decade in the United States.