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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.
— Fannie Lou Hamer Hamer and her husband wanted very much to start a family but in 1961, a white doctor subjected Hamer to a hysterectomy without her consent while she was undergoing surgery to remove a uterine tumor. Forced sterilization was a common method of population control in Mississippi that targeted poor, African-American women. Members of the Black community called the procedure a ...
African Americans. African Americans in Mississippi or Black Mississippians are residents of the state of Mississippi who are of African American ancestry. As of the 2019 U.S. Census estimates, African Americans were 37.8% of the state's population which is the highest in the nation.
Ten Mississippians have been honored with the Presidential Medal of Freedom since 1964. The state's recipients come from all walks of life: Civil Rights activists, musicians, writers — and even ...
Emmett Till. Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African American teenager who was abducted and lynched in Mississippi in 1955 after being accused of offending a white woman, Carolyn Bryant, in her family's grocery store. The brutality of his murder and the acquittal of his killers drew attention to the long history of ...
Mamie Elizabeth Till-Mobley [a] (born Mamie Elizabeth Carthan; November 23, 1921 – January 6, 2003) was an American educator and activist.She was the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old teenager murdered in Mississippi on August 28, 1955, after accusations that he had whistled at a white grocery store cashier named Carolyn Bryant.
Mississippian culture pottery is the ceramic tradition of the Mississippian culture (800 to 1600 CE) found as artifacts in archaeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast. It is often characterized by the adoption and use of riverine (or more rarely marine) shell- tempering agents in the clay paste. [ 1 ]
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 ...