This author has contributed to the following articles in the Encyclopedia.Anderson, Walter InglisWalter Anderson was born in New Orleans on 29 September 1903, the second son of George Walter Anderson, a grain…Beauty PageantsMississippians have invested considerable time and effort in creating a beauty pageant tradition and have excelled in competition with women…Black Belt/PrairieThe Mississippi Black Belt is part of a larger region, stretching from Virginia south to the Carolinas and west through…Dean, DizzyThe son of an itinerant Arkansas farmer, Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean lived much of his life in Mississippi and became…DeltaThe Mississippi Delta encompasses the northwestern part of the state of Mississippi, bounded on the west by the Mississippi River…Downing, AnnVirginia Ann Sanders Downing is one of the most accomplished women in southern gospel music. Born on 12 June 1945…EpiscopaliansThe Episcopal Church in Mississippi traces its roots back to British West Florida in the late eighteenth century, about the…Five Blind Boys of MississippiIn the 1930s four blind students at the Piney Woods School south of Jackson—Lawrence Abrams, Archie Brownlee, Joseph Ford, and…Mammy’s CupboardMammy’s Cupboard is a roadside business located ten miles south of Natchez on Highway 61. It is a popular culture…Music, ReligiousReligious music in Mississippi emerged from the musical forms that early settlers brought to the state, the dynamic cultural cauldron…Piney WoodsMississippi’s Piney Woods are part of a broad coastal plain stretching from southern Virginia to East Texas. The Mississippi pinelands…Religious ArchitectureMississippi’s architectural expressions reflect its religious culture. Evangelicalism, a congregationally oriented faith that has often prized simplicity of approach and…TreesNovelist Richard Wright drew from his Mississippi childhood in recalling the visual dominance of trees in the American South. Changes…Winans, WilliamWilliam Winans was not a native Mississippian, but he moved to the territory in 1810 and became one of the…
Anderson, Walter InglisWalter Anderson was born in New Orleans on 29 September 1903, the second son of George Walter Anderson, a grain…
Beauty PageantsMississippians have invested considerable time and effort in creating a beauty pageant tradition and have excelled in competition with women…
Black Belt/PrairieThe Mississippi Black Belt is part of a larger region, stretching from Virginia south to the Carolinas and west through…
Dean, DizzyThe son of an itinerant Arkansas farmer, Jay Hanna “Dizzy” Dean lived much of his life in Mississippi and became…
DeltaThe Mississippi Delta encompasses the northwestern part of the state of Mississippi, bounded on the west by the Mississippi River…
Downing, AnnVirginia Ann Sanders Downing is one of the most accomplished women in southern gospel music. Born on 12 June 1945…
EpiscopaliansThe Episcopal Church in Mississippi traces its roots back to British West Florida in the late eighteenth century, about the…
Five Blind Boys of MississippiIn the 1930s four blind students at the Piney Woods School south of Jackson—Lawrence Abrams, Archie Brownlee, Joseph Ford, and…
Mammy’s CupboardMammy’s Cupboard is a roadside business located ten miles south of Natchez on Highway 61. It is a popular culture…
Music, ReligiousReligious music in Mississippi emerged from the musical forms that early settlers brought to the state, the dynamic cultural cauldron…
Piney WoodsMississippi’s Piney Woods are part of a broad coastal plain stretching from southern Virginia to East Texas. The Mississippi pinelands…
Religious ArchitectureMississippi’s architectural expressions reflect its religious culture. Evangelicalism, a congregationally oriented faith that has often prized simplicity of approach and…
TreesNovelist Richard Wright drew from his Mississippi childhood in recalling the visual dominance of trees in the American South. Changes…
Winans, WilliamWilliam Winans was not a native Mississippian, but he moved to the territory in 1810 and became one of the…
