#mississippihistory — Public Fediverse posts

Jackson Advocate: Project preserving Mississippi Delta family histories through historic records . “An official America250 Mississippi initiative, Beyond the Census is a public humanities project focused on digitizing and preserving the historical records of the Delta Burial Corporation, a century-old institution in Marks. The initial phase will focus on records spanning approximately 1920 to […]

Jackson Advocate: Project preserving Mississippi Delta family histories through historic records . “An official America250 Mississippi initiative, Beyond the Census is a public humanities project focused on digitizing and preserving the historical records of the Delta Burial Corporation, a century-old institution in Marks. The initial phase will focus on records spanning approximately 1920 to […]

Jackson Advocate: Project preserving Mississippi Delta family histories through historic records . “An official America250 Mississippi initiative, Beyond the Census is a public humanities project focused on digitizing and preserving the historical records of the Delta Burial Corporation, a century-old institution in Marks. The initial phase will focus on records spanning approximately 1920 to […]

Jackson Advocate: Project preserving Mississippi Delta family histories through historic records . “An official America250 Mississippi initiative, Beyond the Census is a public humanities project focused on digitizing and preserving the historical records of the Delta Burial Corporation, a century-old institution in Marks. The initial phase will focus on records spanning approximately 1920 to […]

Jackson Advocate: Project preserving Mississippi Delta family histories through historic records . “An official America250 Mississippi initiative, Beyond the Census is a public humanities project focused on digitizing and preserving the historical records of the Delta Burial Corporation, a century-old institution in Marks. The initial phase will focus on records spanning approximately 1920 to […]

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/

The Emmett Till Interpretive Center purchased the Mississippi Delta barn where Emmett Till was murdered in 1955, thanks to a $1.5 million donation from Shonda Rhimes. The barn will be preserved as a sacred site and transformed into a public memorial by 2030. #EmmettTill #CivilRights #MississippiHistory https://mississippitoday.org/2025/11/24/barn-emmett-till-sacred-site/

New-to-me, from The Dispatch (Mississippi): Historian captures state’s past, one marker at a time. “Every Saturday for two years, William ‘Brother’ Rogers hopped in the car, often with one or both of his sons, and set out across Mississippi, searching for history cast in metal. By 2016, Rogers had photographed every historic marker he knew of in all of Mississippi’s 82 counties…. Rogers […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/28/the-dispatch-mississippi-historian-captures-states-past-one-marker-at-a-time/

https://archive.org/details/carroll-co-ms-wills

Carroll County, Mississippi Abstracts of Wills 1834-1875, Divorces 1857-1875 by Betty Couch Wiltshire

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