#mississippihistory — Public Fediverse posts

Mississippi Today: Fannie Lou Hamer Digital Driving Tour relaunches. “Funded by the Mississippi Humanities Council and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the digital tour with immersive views is designed to make Hamer’s story more accessible for classrooms, cultural heritage travelers and anyone seeking a deeper understanding of Mississippi’s role in the Civil Rights Movement. Visitors can […]

Jackson Advocate: MHC launches new Mississippi Stories Grant program. “The Mississippi Humanities Council (MHC) has launched the Mississippi Stories Grant, a new funding opportunity to help communities across the state preserve, share, and celebrate the voices and lived experiences of Mississippians. The program is supported by the Mississippi Legislature through the Mississippi Department of […]

Mississippi Today: KKK cache is available to the public at Archives and History. “The public can now get a glimpse of 1960s Ku Klux Klan materials, including charters and lists of dues-paying Mississippi Klansmen, through collections housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The department announced Wednesday that the materials can be seen in its research library in downtown […]

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/

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/

Vicksburg Daily News: Law Library adds Territorial court records from more than 200 years ago found in Vicksburg . “Records of the Supreme Court of the Mississippi Territory spanning 1799 to 1809 were added to the digital archive of the State Law Library in Jackson on Jan. 10… The records were discovered in March 2024 among thousands of books slated for an April 2024 estate sale in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/01/13/vicksburg-daily-news-law-library-adds-territorial-court-records-from-more-than-200-years-ago-found-in-vicksburg/

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The history of the Delta Cooperative Farm provides a sad but necessary context for these photographs:

https://www.mshistorynow.mdah.ms.gov/issue/cooperative-farming-in-mississippi

#USHistory #MississippiHistory

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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