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  2. List of people from Mississippi - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. George W. Lee - Wikipedia

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    George W. Lee. George Washington Lee (December 25, 1903 – May 7, 1955) was an African-American civil rights leader, minister, and entrepreneur. He was a vice president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

  4. Emmett Till - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. History of Mississippi - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Oseola McCarty - Wikipedia

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    Died. September 26, 1999. (1999-09-26) (aged 91) Hattiesburg, Mississippi, US. Oseola McCarty (March 7, 1908 – September 26, 1999) was a local washerwoman in Hattiesburg, Mississippi who became The University of Southern Mississippi 's (USM) most famous benefactor. McCarty drew global attention after it was announced in July 1995 that she had ...

  7. Category:People from Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    This category is for people from the United States state of Mississippi Classification : People : By nationality : American : By state : Mississippi Also: Countries : United States : States : Mississippi : People

  8. Tishomingo - Wikipedia

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    Tishomingo was born c. 1758 in British America (present-day Mississippi). [2] He served with U.S. Army Major-General Anthony Wayne against the Shawnee in Northwest Territory and received a silver medal from President George Washington. He led by example and was respected for his honesty and high moral standards, serving with distinction at ...

  9. Unita Blackwell - Wikipedia

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    Jeremiah Blackwell Willie Wright. Children. 1. Education. University of Massachusetts Amherst (MRP) Occupation. Activist. Unita Zelma Blackwell (March 18, 1933 – May 13, 2019) was an American civil rights activist who was the first African-American woman to be elected mayor in the U.S. state of Mississippi. [ 1 ]

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