This author has contributed to the following articles in the Encyclopedia.Biloxi SchoonerThe heyday of the Biloxi schooner lasted just four decades, bookended by a hurricane and the rise of gas-powered boats.…Brown, R. Jess, Carsie A. Hall, and Jack H. Young, Sr.Attorneys R. Jess Brown, Carsie A. Hall, and Jack H. Young Sr. took on the enormous task of handling most…Choctaw Constitution of 1945The current government of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians derives its powers from a constitution approved in 1945. The…Gibbs-Green ShootingsThe shootings on the campus of Jackson State College on 14 May 1970 began with the throwing of rocks at…Jackson Civil Rights MovementThe civil rights movement in Jackson encompassed the direct action protests in Mississippi’s capital city in the early 1960s. The…King, EdA native of Vicksburg, Rev. Edwin King Jr. became one of the key white leaders in the civil rights movement…LighthousesLighthouses were once ubiquitous fixtures on the Mississippi coast, with as many as nine in operation in the late nineteenth…Mosley, Jessie BryantJessie Bryant was born in Houston, Texas, on 30 November 1903 to Grant Hamilton Bryant and Emma Bryant. She earned…Slave CodesLike other southern territories and states, Mississippi adopted strict laws to govern the conduct of slaves. Mississippi built on the…Weidmann’s RestaurantFelix Weidmann came to the United States in 1868 from Zurich, Switzerland, arriving in Mobile, Alabama, aboard an ocean liner…
Biloxi SchoonerThe heyday of the Biloxi schooner lasted just four decades, bookended by a hurricane and the rise of gas-powered boats.…
Brown, R. Jess, Carsie A. Hall, and Jack H. Young, Sr.Attorneys R. Jess Brown, Carsie A. Hall, and Jack H. Young Sr. took on the enormous task of handling most…
Choctaw Constitution of 1945The current government of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians derives its powers from a constitution approved in 1945. The…
Gibbs-Green ShootingsThe shootings on the campus of Jackson State College on 14 May 1970 began with the throwing of rocks at…
Jackson Civil Rights MovementThe civil rights movement in Jackson encompassed the direct action protests in Mississippi’s capital city in the early 1960s. The…
King, EdA native of Vicksburg, Rev. Edwin King Jr. became one of the key white leaders in the civil rights movement…
LighthousesLighthouses were once ubiquitous fixtures on the Mississippi coast, with as many as nine in operation in the late nineteenth…
Mosley, Jessie BryantJessie Bryant was born in Houston, Texas, on 30 November 1903 to Grant Hamilton Bryant and Emma Bryant. She earned…
Slave CodesLike other southern territories and states, Mississippi adopted strict laws to govern the conduct of slaves. Mississippi built on the…
Weidmann’s RestaurantFelix Weidmann came to the United States in 1868 from Zurich, Switzerland, arriving in Mobile, Alabama, aboard an ocean liner…
