Mississippi

1817

Mississippi Statehood

1817

Mississippi Statehood

Mississippi was admitted to the Union on December 10, 1817, as the 20th state. Its fertile...

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1863

Vicksburg Campaign

1863

Vicksburg Campaign

The Siege of Vicksburg was a critical campaign of the Civil War in which Union General Uly...

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1890

Mississippi Constitution

1890

Mississippi Constitution

The Mississippi Constitution of 1890 institutionalized a system of racial disenfranchiseme...

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1900s

Delta Blues Emerges

1900s

Delta Blues Emerges

The Mississippi Delta gave birth to the blues in the late nineteenth and early twentieth c...

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1930s

Great Depression Farming Crisis

1930s

Great Depression Farming Crisis

Mississippi's cotton-dependent economy was devastated by the Great Depression of the 1930s...

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1955

Emmett Till Murder

1955

Emmett Till Murder

In August 1955, fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered in the Mississippi Delta. His m...

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1962

Integration of Ole Miss

1962

Integration of Ole Miss

In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American student to enroll at t...

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1964

Freedom Summer

1964

Freedom Summer

In the summer of 1964, hundreds of civil rights workers came to Mississippi to help regist...

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1969

Apollo Testing at Stennis

1969

Apollo Testing at Stennis

The John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi became a critical facility for testing the...

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Modern Era

Music and Aerospace Heritage

Modern Era

Music and Aerospace Heritage

Today, Mississippi is celebrated for a rich cultural heritage in music, literature, and cu...

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