Transcript Mississippi - Barrington 220

Mississippi
The Magnolia State
The committee to design a State Flag (1894)
recommended for the flag "one with width twothirds of its length; with the union square, in
width two-thirds of the width of the flag; the
ground of the union to be red and a broad blue
saltier thereon, bordered with white and
emblazoned with thirteen (13) mullets or fivepointed stars, corresponding with the number of
the original States of the Union; the field to be
divided into three bars of equal width, the upper
one blue, the center one white, and the lower
one extending the whole length of the flag.
Mississippi
River
Mississippi River
Vicksburg: Famous from Civil War
Oxbow Lakes
Fishing: Catfish / Shrimp /
Red Snapper / Oysters / Carp
Still some HUGE cotton “plantations”
State Flag: still has the
Confederate symbol
In 1902, Teddy Roosevelt refused to shoot a
bear held in captivity: Teddy Bear
Cotton, soybeans, …
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The state's farmlands also
yield important harvests of
corn, peanuts, pecans, rice,
sugar cane, and sweet
potatoes as well as poultry,
eggs, meat animals, dairy
products, feed crops, and
horticultural crops. Mississippi
remains the world's leading
producer of pond-raised
catfish.
On March 12, 1894, the Biedenharn Candy Company bottled the first
Coca-Cola in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Root beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq,
Tupelo – the birthplace of Elvis
Music and “Mississippi Delta Blues”
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Mississippi musicians created
new forms by combining and
creating variations on musical
traditions from Africa with the
musical traditions of white
Southerners, a tradition largely
rooted in Scots–Irish music.
When people lost their land
and jobs, many Mississippi
musicians migrated to Chicago
and created new forms of jazz
and other styles there.
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Jimmy Rogers: “the father of
country music”
Many civil rights movement events happened in Mississippi
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Medgar Evers was an African
American civil rights activist
from Mississippi who was
buried with full military
honors at Arlington National
Cemetery after being
assassinated by Ku Klux Klan
member Byron De La
Beckwith. Evers' life, his
murder, and the resulting
trials inspired protests as well
as numerous works including
music and film.
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1962: James Meredith:
the first black student to
enroll at the University of
Mississippi. Violence and
riots surrounding the
incident cause President
Kennedy to send 5,000
federal troops.
1964: The bodies of three civilrights workers—two white, one
black—are found in an earthen dam,
six weeks into a federal investigation
backed by President Johnson. James
E. Chaney, 21; Andrew Goodman,
21; and Michael Schwerner, 24, had
been working to register black voters
in Mississippi, and had gone to
investigate the burning of a black
church. They were arrested by the
police on speeding charges,
incarcerated for several hours, and
then released after dark into the
hands of the Ku Klux Klan, who
murdered them.
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Emmet Till: Emmett Till was an
African-American boy who at 14 years
old was murdered in Mississippi after
reportedly flirting with a white woman.
Till was from Chicago, Illinois visiting
his relatives in the Mississippi Delta
region when he spoke to 21-year-old
Carolyn Bryant, the married proprietor
of a small grocery store. Several nights
later, Bryant's husband Roy and his
half-brother J. W. Milam, arrived at
Till's great-uncle's house where they
took Till, transported him to a barn,
beat him and gouged out one of his
eyes, before shooting him through the
head and disposing of his body in the
Tallahatchie River, weighting it with a
70-pound (32 kg) cotton gin fan tied
around his neck with barbed wire. His
body was discovered and retrieved
from the river three days later.
1964: “The Freedom Summer”
Sit-ins / Protest Marches
Also known as:
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The Eagle State
The Border Eagle
State
The Bayou State
The Mud-Cat State
The Magnolia State