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Kathy Thibodeaux. Categories: American dancers by state. Entertainers from Mississippi. Dance in Mississippi.
Music of Mississippi. Mississippi is best known as the home of the blues which developed among the freed African Americans in the latter half of the 19th century and beginning 20th century. The Delta blues is the style most closely associated with the state, and includes performers like Charley Patton, Robert Johnson (buried in Greenwood, MS ...
GRAMMY Museum Mississippi is a 28,000-square-foot (2,600 m 2) interactive music-centered museum and event center located in Cleveland, Mississippi, United States. It focuses on the history of The Grammys, the continuing musical achievements of Mississippians, and much more. [1][2]
Pig Foot Mary (1870–1929), culinary entrepreneur (Mississippi Delta) Robert Pittman (born 1953), founder of MTV, executive at AOL (Jackson) J. H. Rush (1868–1931), founder of Rush's Infirmary (De Kalb) Fred Smith (born 1944), founder of FedEx (Marks) James Breckenridge Speed (1844–1912), industrial pioneer.
Approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures. The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped ...
The Caddoan Mississippian culture was a prehistoric Native American culture considered by archaeologists as a variant of the Mississippian culture. [1] The Caddoan Mississippians covered a large territory, including what is now Eastern Oklahoma, Western Arkansas, Northeast Texas, Southwest Missouri and Northwest Louisiana of the United States.
On April 23, 1940, 209 people died in a fire at the Rhythm Night Club, a black dance hall in Natchez. [54] The local paper remarked that "203 black bought 50 cent tickets to eternity." [55] This fire has been noted as the fourth-deadliest fire in U.S. history. [56] Several blues songs pay tribute to this tragedy and mention the city of Natchez ...
African-American dance is a form of dance that was created by Africans in the Diaspora, specifically the United States. It has developed within various spaces throughout African-American communities in the United States, rather than studios, schools, or companies. These dances are usually centered on folk and social dance practice, though ...