This author has contributed to the following articles in the Encyclopedia.Barnard, Frederick A. P.Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was born 5 May 1809 in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He graduated second in the Class of 1828…Brady, Thomas P.Thomas Pickens Brady (pronounced Braddy) emerged as a prominent segregationist after the publication of his 1955 book Black Monday. Born…Courts, GusGus Courts, a Belzoni grocer, helped organize the Humphreys County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…Dixiecrats (States' Rights Democrats)The Dixiecrat movement was a short-lived effort by conservative white Democrats to pressure the national Democratic Party to give up…Greenwood Civil Rights MovementGreenwood sits on the banks of the Yazoo River in Leflore County in the eastern Mississippi Delta. In the 1960s…McGhee, LauraLaura McGhee, born on 5 March 1907, and her three sons represented the kind of activists who proved crucial to…Rosenwald SchoolsThe Rosenwald rural school building initiative was an important effort to enhance public education for African Americans in the early…Satterfield, John C.John Creighton Satterfield, born in Port Gibson on 25 July 1904, played a pivotal role in Mississippi’s fight against desegregation…
Barnard, Frederick A. P.Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard was born 5 May 1809 in Sheffield, Massachusetts. He graduated second in the Class of 1828…
Brady, Thomas P.Thomas Pickens Brady (pronounced Braddy) emerged as a prominent segregationist after the publication of his 1955 book Black Monday. Born…
Courts, GusGus Courts, a Belzoni grocer, helped organize the Humphreys County chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored…
Dixiecrats (States' Rights Democrats)The Dixiecrat movement was a short-lived effort by conservative white Democrats to pressure the national Democratic Party to give up…
Greenwood Civil Rights MovementGreenwood sits on the banks of the Yazoo River in Leflore County in the eastern Mississippi Delta. In the 1960s…
McGhee, LauraLaura McGhee, born on 5 March 1907, and her three sons represented the kind of activists who proved crucial to…
Rosenwald SchoolsThe Rosenwald rural school building initiative was an important effort to enhance public education for African Americans in the early…
Satterfield, John C.John Creighton Satterfield, born in Port Gibson on 25 July 1904, played a pivotal role in Mississippi’s fight against desegregation…
