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Jackson: Museum of Mississippi History
One Mississippi, Many Stories. Step into the museum and be transported back in time to experience the stories of Mississippians over thousands of years. Throughout the galleries, you will explore interactive exhibits, see engaging artifacts, and hear stories from people who shaped our state.
The First Peoples13,000 BC–AD 1518
Native American mounds rise up across Mississippi’s landscape today. Who built these mysterious earthworks, and why? This gallery explores the sophisticated cultures of the first people to call this land home. Walk through time as you view archaeological finds—including pottery, tools, and weapons—that tell the story of these ancient cultures.
Cultural Crossroads1519–1798
Before 1519, Native Americans were the only people living in the land that would become Mississippi. By 1798, the non-native population had grown to over 8,000. Who would ultimately control this region? Dramatic artifacts—including wrought-iron slave shackles—illustrate this time of transition.
1799–1832
Cultural clashes raged throughout the Mississippi Territory in the years preceding statehood. European settlers poured into the region to claim farming land, bringing enslaved Africans with them. Mississippi joined the United States in 1817. What happened to Native Americans during this time? Explore these turbulent years—and the state that they created—in this engaging gallery.
Cotton Kingdom1833–1865
By 1840, there were more enslaved African Americans than whites living in Mississippi. White Mississippians were determined to preserve slavery, even if it meant leaving the United States that they had so recently joined. What would become of “Cotton Kingdom”—and newly freed African Americans—during four long years of war?
The World Remade1866–1902
The end of slavery and the Civil War brought the challenge of reconstructing a war-torn state. How would Mississippians rebuild their economy? Forced to make the most of natural resources, timber companies cleared over a million acres of new farmland in the Delta. But the majority of farmers were trapped in unfair sharecropping systems, even as the promise of new opportunities in America drew immigrants from across the globe.
Promise and Peril1903–1927
The century began with promise. As airplanes roared across the skies, medical advances improved the way some people lived on the ground below. But rising floodwaters from the Mississippi River ravaged homes and businesses in 1927, and boll weevils infested cotton crops across the state. Which industries did Mississippians turn to when agriculture failed them? Explore the changes and challenges Mississippians faced at the turn of the century.
Bridging Hardship1928–1945
The Great Depression crippled new industry in Mississippi, leaving thousands without jobs. How would people adapt to these changing times? The average Mississippian made less than ten dollars a month, so families grew their own food and hunted to survive. World War II brought further transformations as more than ten percent of the state's population signed up for military service.
1946–PRESENT
Mississippi was thrust into the national spotlight as the struggle for equal rights raged in courtrooms, schools, and businesses across the state. How did Mississippians move forward? Technology, industry, and immigration continued to change the social landscape of the state, and a diverse array of activists, artisans, entrepreneurs, politicians, and everyday citizens contributed to Mississippi’s story.
ReflectionsAt the end of your journey through the Museum of Mississippi History, you are invited to share your own history. What story will you contribute? Step into our video reflections booth to tell us about your memories of Mississippi. Your comments could be integrated into Reflections areas throughout the museum.
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Mississippi Museums Explore Slavery, Klan Era
(5 Dec 2017) SOUND UP: music from entrance to museum This little light of mine I'm going to let it shine.
MISSISSIPPI IS MARKING ITS BICENTENNIAL BY OPENING TWO HISTORY MUSEUMS UNDER ONE ROOF.
THE MUSEUM OF MISSISSIPI HISTORY COVERS WIDE RANGING TOPICS FROM NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE, THE CIVIL WAR, TO MORE RECENT EVENTS INCLUDING HURRICANE KATRINA.
SOUNDBITE (English) Lance Wheeler, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum:
Originally before they started burning crosses, they left caskets on your doorsteps basically saying you're next, and this painting was made about 1859, 1849.
NEXT DOOR THE CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM LOOKS AT A COMPLEX CHAPTER IN THE STATE'S HISTORY FROM 1945 TO 1976, THE EFFORTS TO BREAK DOWN SEGREGATION AND THE VIOLENT BACKLASH AGAINST IT.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Dahmer, Husband killed by KKK:
I hope it never happens to anybody else, regardless of what color they are.
ONE DISPLAY TELLS OF THE 1966 FIREBOMBING OF VERNON DAHMER'S HOME, A LOCAL NAACP LEADER.
HIS WIFE RECOUNTS TRYING TO QUIET THEIR 10 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER DURING THE ATTACK.
SOUNDBITE (English) Ellie Dahmer, Husband killed by KKK:
They were shooting in the house, my husband was returning fire, we were trying to keep her quiet so they wouldn't know where to shoot us. Well she was screaming so loud, lord have mercy we were going to get burnt in this house alive.
ELLIE DAHMER AND HER SMALL CHILDREN WERE ABLE TO ESCAPE BUT DAHMER WAS KILLED.
SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK:
Six of his 7 sons served in the military for a total of 78 years.
VERNON DAHMER WAS ON ACTIVE DUTY AT THE TIME OF HIS FATHER'S DEATH.
SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK:
To come home and see what had happened was totally devastating. My family was homeless, my dad had died, my little sister had been burned, I had to just pick it up and move forward.
THE MUSEUM REFLECTS HOW THE STATE HAS ALSO MOVED FORWARD SINCE THAT TIME.
SOUNDBITE (English) Vernon Dahmer Jr., Father killed by KKK:
There are bad people in Mississippi but there are a lot of good people, and it's the good people that helped us get where we are today to approve what we see here, we've come a long way.
BUT THE MUSEUM MAKES A POINT THAT MORE CHANGE IS NEEDED.
SOUNDBITE (English) Pamela D.C. Junior, Mississippi Civil Rights Museum:
Are we through? No we've got a long way to go that's why the last gallery is 'Where do we go from here?'.
OFFICIALS SAY THE TWO MUSEUMS OFFER AN HONEST LOOK AT THE STATE'S HISTORY.
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Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era
Hard history: Mississippi museums explore slavery, Klan era
In the 1950s and '60s, segregationist whites waved Confederate flags and slapped defiant bumper stickers on cars declaring Mississippi the most lied about state in
the Union.Those were ways making a dig against African-Americans who dared challenge racial oppression, and journalists covering the civil rights movement.
Decades later, as Mississippi marks its bicentennial, the state is getting an unflinching look at its own complex and often brutal past in two history museums,
complete with displays of slave chains, Ku Klux Klan robes and graphic photos of lynchings and firebombings.The Museum of Mississippi History takes a 15,000-year view,
from the Stone Age through modern times. The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum concentrates on a far shorter, but intense span, from 1945 to 1976.They are opening
Saturday, the day before the 200th anniversary of Mississippi becoming the 20th state.The two distinct museums under a single roof are both funded by state tax dollars
and private donations. Officials insist the museums are not intended to be separate-but-equal in a state where that phrase was cynically invoked to maintain
segregated school systems for whites and blacks that were separate and distinctly unequal.We are telling a much longer story in the Museum of Mississippi History, a
much deeper story in the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, said Katie Blount, director of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. We want everybody to
walk in one door, side by side, to learn all of our state's stories.The general history museum depicts Native American culture, European settlement, slavery, the
Civil War and Reconstruction. It examines natural disasters, including the massive Mississippi River flood in 1927 and Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It also has only-in-
Mississippi items such as the crown Mary Ann Mobley wore as Miss America 1959.The museums' opening caps a yearlong bicentennial commemoration. Some events have
celebrated Mississippi's success at producing influential authors and musicians, such as William Faulkner, Richard Wright, B.B. King and Elvis Presley. Others took a
critical look slavery and segregation.President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend the museums' opening, a White House official said Monday, speaking on condition of
anonymity to discuss the trip before it is formally announced. Republican Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, a Trump supporter, invited the president. The Mississippi NAACP
president is asking Bryant to rescind the invitation, with state chapter president Charles Hampton saying an invitation to a president that has aimed to divide this
nation is not becoming of this historic moment.One of the nation's poorest states, with a population that's 59 percent white and 38 percent black, Mississippi remains
divided by one of its most visible symbols. It's the last state with a flag featuring the Confederate battle emblem that critics see as racist. All eight public
universities, and several cities and counties, have stopped flying the flag in recent years.There is no flagpole outside the new museums.Ellie Dahmer (DAY'-mur), the
92-year-old widow of slain civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer, said the Mississippi flag represents an unabashed defense of slavery. She marveled at the existence of
the civil rights museum in a state that won't abandon the banner.A display in the civil rights museum tells of the 1966 KKK firebombing of the Dahmer home outside
Hattiesburg after Vernon Dahmer, the local NAACP leader, announced he would pay poll taxes for black people registering to vote. He fired back at Klansmen who were
shooting at his burning house. The family escaped, but Vernon Dahmer's lungs were seared and he died. The couple's 10-year-old daughter was severely burned.Parts of
the Dahmers' bullet-riddled truck are in the museum with several photos.The Mississippi museum joins several others focused on civil rights: the Center for Civil and
Human Rights in Atlanta ; the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee; the Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery, Alabama; Birmingham Civil Rights Institute in
Alabama. The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington has attracted large crowds since opening in September 2016.Eddie S. Glaude Jr., a
49-year-old Mississippi native who now chairs African-American Studies at Princeton University, said Mississippi was ground zero for the civil rights movement, and
it's significant that the state is presenting an honest account of its history.America can't really turn a corner with regards to its racist and violent past and
present until the South, and particularly a state like Mississippi, confronts it — and confronts it unflinchingly, Glaude said.In the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum,
columns list about 600 documented lynchings in the state — most of them, of black men...
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RV Life is serendipitous! We were staying at Paul B. Johnson State Park near Hattiesburg, Mississippi when we found out about a nearby Cajun restaurant, Louisiana Sister's Gourmet Cajun Cafe. The cafe hours are 10:00 - 3:00, closed on Sunday. So we planned a day to check it out. You won't find it under a search for restaurants on Google. You have to search under Grocery Stores even though it's a restaurant. It is in Google as Louisiana Sister Cajun Gourmet, 3971 US 49, Hattiesburg, MS 39401. This place was a tasty surprise with an interesting story. We enjoyed visiting with the ladies there and they suggested we check out nearby Camp Shelby and the museum there- free! So we drove across the street and found the Armed Forces Museum, Building 850, Forrest Ave. W. Camp Shelby, MS 39407. It is FREE and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. We were so in awe and overwhelmed at the amount of indoor displays that we didn't take any pictures. However, you can view some displays on their website at armedforcesmuseum.us. If you are in the area or planning on traveling this way, check out the Louisiana Sister's Gourmet Cajun Cafe for an early lunch, then head over to spend a few hours at the museum.
History Is Lunch: Max Grivno, The Last Slave: Sylvester Magee in History and Memory”
On February 21, 2018, Max Grivno presented The Last Slave: Sylvester Magee in History and Memory as part of the History Is Lunch lecture series.
“As Mississippians commemorated the centennial of the Civil War and struggled through the most intense and violent years of the Civil Rights Movement, an aged man from south Mississippi captured the nation’s attention when a handful of local historians and journalists claimed that he was the last Union veteran, one of the last surviving ex-slaves, and the oldest living American,” Grivno said. “From 1964 until his death in 1971 at the remarkable—if undocumented—age of 131 years, Sylvester Magee of Hattiesburg became something of a celebrity. His story was splashed across newspapers throughout the country. He received birthday letters from presidents Johnson and Nixon, appeared on nationally televised programs, and once had his birthday declared Sylvester Magee Day by the Mississippi Legislature. But was any of it true?”
Based on the papers of historians who attempted to reconstruct his life in the 1960s, along with records of the planters who may have held the Magee family in bondage, Grivno examines what we can know about Sylvester Magee.
“While the evidence suggests that Mr. Magee was born sometime in the 1890s, the stories that swirled around him and the historians who investigated his case are, nevertheless, important,” Grivno said. “Regardless of his actual age, Mr. Magee opens a window onto how Mississippians—both black and white—remembered slavery a century after emancipation, how they attempted to situation stories of slavery within the Freedom Struggle of the 1960s, and how conversations about slavery shape our present.
Max Grivno is associate professor of history at the University of Southern Mississippi. He was named the 2016 Humanities Scholar of the Year by the Mississippi Humanities Council. His book Gleanings of Freedom: Free Labor and Slavery along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860, was published in 2011 by the University of Illinois Press. Grivno is currently writing From Bondage to Freedom: Slavery in Mississippi, 1690-1865, which is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi as part of the Heritage of Mississippi Series and is researching a third book, tentatively titled Bandits, Klansmen, Rioters, and Strikers: Violence in the Alabama-Mississippi Black Belt,1830-1917.
History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson. MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their Facebook page.
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00:03:46 2 Geography
00:06:28 2.1 Major cities and towns
00:07:15 2.2 Climate
00:09:56 2.3 Ecology, flora, and fauna
00:12:36 2.4 Ecological problems
00:12:45 2.4.1 Flooding
00:17:00 3 History
00:18:58 3.1 Colonial era
00:21:38 3.2 United States territory
00:24:22 3.3 Statehood, 1817–1861
00:27:21 3.4 Civil War to 20th century
00:34:10 3.5 20th century to present
00:44:08 4 Demographics
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00:52:42 4.2 Language
00:53:31 4.3 Religion
00:56:47 4.4 Birth data
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01:09:47 6.3 Taxation
01:11:38 6.4 Federal subsidies and spending
01:13:10 7 Politics and government
01:14:15 7.1 Laws
01:15:29 8 Political alignment
01:16:31 9 Transportation
01:16:41 9.1 Air
01:17:01 9.2 Roads
01:17:26 9.3 Rail
01:17:35 9.3.1 Passenger
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01:18:50 9.4 Water
01:18:59 9.4.1 Major rivers
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01:21:16 11 Education
01:27:18 12 Culture
01:28:12 12.1 Music
01:30:33 12.2 Literature
01:30:42 12.3 Sports
01:31:32 13 Notable people
01:31:41 14 See also
01:31:59 15 Footnotes
01:32:09 16 Further reading
01:32:28 17 External links
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to ...
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Iola M. Williams was born on February 2nd, 1936 in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. She married George E. Williams, U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant, retired and the two became the parents of seven children, seventeen grandchildren, and five great-grand children. The Williams have now been married for sixty years (and counting). After extensive travel as a military family in 1970 the Williams settled in San Jose, California where Mrs. Williams became the first African-American woman elected to the Franklin McKinley School Board.
Councilwoman Williams became active in the California State and National Association of School Board Members and chaired one of six standing committees for the California State School Board.
On January 4th, 1979, Mrs. Iola Williams again reshaped history as the first African-American elected to the San Jose City Council, a post she held for 12 years that included two terms as Vice Mayor of the one of the nation’s largest cities (San Jose 1981-83).
Vice Mayor Williams along with Mayor Janet Gray Hayes, Shirley Lewis, Lu Ryden, Nancy Ianni, Pat Sausedo, Susan Hammer, Blanca Alvarado made national history when 8 of 11 councilpersons were female. During that period the women who held offices on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors were Susanne Wilson, Zoe Lofgren (1980) Becky Morgan (1982), Dianne McKenna (1985), and Sally Reed (County Executive 1982). During this time the women coined Santa Clara County the feminist capital of America because no other city or county in the nation had ever pulled off this coup.
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In the National League of Cities (NLC), Mrs. Williams served on the Human Resources Committee, the Community and Economic Development Committee, conference workshops, NLC Advisory Council, and served two years as a member of the Board Directors, representing California cities on the Governor's Office of Planning and Research Council and Task Force on Civil Rights.
The former House of Representatives created senior service centers of which Iola kept an eagle eye on health programs as they moved through congress for seniors who were not receiving Medicaid, Medicare and Medi-cal services. Iola Williams Senior center is located in District 7
After retiring from elected office in 1991, The Williams returned to Hattiesburg where she served as Director of Recreation and Community Relations, after making her argument to the city mayor to uphold the historic African American USO building they were prepared to demolish. Iola became executive director of the African-American Military History Museum in Hattiesburg MS where she served for five years before again retiring.
Councilwoman Williams received numerous civic and community awards and honors for her due diligence including:
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Advisory Board of John F Kennedy Program for State and local Government
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Member of the San Jose State University Advisory Board
African American Community Service Agency (AACSA) 36th Annual MLK Lifetime Achievement Award
Silicon Valley Black Legends Award
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