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The history of the state of Mississippi extends back to thousands of years of indigenous peoples. Evidence of their cultures has been found largely through archeological excavations, as well as existing remains of earthwork mounds built thousands of years ago. Native American traditions were kept through oral histories; with Europeans recording ...
The Department of Archives and History is the second oldest state department of archives and history in the United States. [6] In 1902, Dunbar Rowland, an attorney and historian, was selected as the first Director of the department and served in that position until his death in 1937. [5][7] The Mississippi Department of Archives and History was ...
The Mississippi Historical Society was relaunched for a third time in 1952 and has maintained itself in continuous operation ever since. For a brief year between 1952 and 1953 MHS was active, falling once more into dormancy until its most successful upstart in 1964 with the production of J. F. H. Claiborne’s book "Mississippi as a Province, Territory, and State".
From 1839 until 1903, as Mississippi's statehouse, the old capitol was the site of several historical legislative events: [5] Passage of the Married Women's Property Act, the first law in any state to allow married women to independently own property, in 1839. [7] Passage of an ordinance of secession in 1861. Constitutional Convention of 1865.
State of Mississippi roadside marker denoting the location where the 1964 murders of American civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner took place. A stone memorial at the Mt. Nebo Baptist Church commemorates the three civil rights activists. [65] Several Mississippi State Historical Markers have been erected relating to this incident:
The Museum of Mississippi History is a museum in Jackson, Mississippi located at 222 North St. #2205. The museum opened December 9, 2017, in conjunction with the adjacent Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in celebration of Mississippi's bicentennial. [ 2 ] The theme of the history museum is "One Mississippi, Many Stories". [ 3 ]
Salary. US$ 90,000. State Treasurer of Mississippi is a post created in 1817 when the state was admitted to the Union. Before the state was formed by splitting the Alabama Territory from the Mississippi Territory, an equivalent post was the Territorial Treasurer General, established in 1802.
Mississippi held constitutional conventions in 1851 and 1861 about secession. [2] A few months before the start of the American Civil War in April 1861, Mississippi, a slave state located in the Southern United States, declared that it had seceded from the United States and joined the newly formed Confederacy, and it subsequently lost its representation in the U.S. Congress.