Living In Mississippi's History

The novel Mississippi Mud illustrates a murder of an illustrious couple that would shake the city of Biloxi, Mississippi, as well as, unveil political corruption structured around the Dixie Mafia. Vincent and Margret Sherry, the couple whom had been murdered, were loving parents to four children, which all were adults. However it was their oldest daughter, Lynne Sposito, which is responsible for discovering the motive for her parents’ murder and the killer responsible for it. She reveals the secrets and the cesspool of corruption that lies within Biloxi. Within this mirage Kirksey McCord Nix, Junior, is presented as a character that, some may consider being born with a silver spoon, being that his mother and father both were highly successful attorneys. Mister Nix juniors’ mother was the first woman to practice law in the state of Mississippi and his father was a senator in Oklahoma. Virtually speaking he was born and raised in the legal realm which caused him to have tons of political clout that would fuel the desperado mentality he developed as a child.

The Mississippian time period was the period that a lot of amphibians and lizard like creatures were formed which was major to leading up to the jurassic and triassic witch when thing got bigger which was the effect of leading to those I this time period was to 359.9 to 323.2 million years ago. It was later than the jurassic and triassic period so the thing in this time period were little not as big as the up coming periods and eras. In this period the Gondwana was just coming in and the Euramerica which was kinda of a fish like thing.

The Mississippi River is the most important river due to its essential need in American commerce. For nearly 200 years in the Mississippi Basin, agriculture has been the main land use. The products and agribusiness industries that have developed produce roughly 92 percent of the nation’s agricultural exports, almost 72 percent of exports in feed grains and soybeans in the world, and some naturally produced livestock and hogs. The largest port district in the world is along the Mississippi River delta in Louisiana, in measure of shipping. In the United States, one of the largest volume ports is The Port of South Louisiana. Towards the lower end of the Mississippi, the shipping mainly consists of petroleum, different petroleum products,

As of 2016, the population of Mississippi is estimated to be 2.99 million. Its population density ranks 32nd in the United States. The first permanent settlement in Mississippi was established in 1699 by the French near what is now Ocean Springs. Natchez is the oldest permanent settlement along the Mississippi River, which was settled in 1716. Natchez was once was home to 500 millionaires, exceeding every other city in the US with the exception of New York City. Mississippi is known for having farm raised catfish.

The Mississippi River is highly regarded as the most important river in Louisiana. One of the lesser known rivers is just as phenomenal, however. The Atchafalaya River (pronounced At-cha-fa-lie-uh), which is adjacent to the Louisianan southern half of the Mississippi River, is so much of a phenomena that the United States Army Corps has been put in charge of controlling the river!

The Mississippian culture was composed of a series of urban settlements and villages linked together by a loose trading network The Mississippian culture flourished from 800-1600 AD. It encompassed the southern shores of the Great Lakes at Western New York and Western Pennsylvania in the Eastern Midwest, all the way into the south/southwest of the Mississippi Valley and into the Southeastern United States.

In this paper I will inform you with a few of these events and topics such as the Civil war, slavery, as well as facts of the state. I hope my readers walk away with a new respect and outlook of Mississippi and learn how the past can affect the future, as well as the beauty.

The trans-Mississippi West was a daunting region shaped primarily by three main groups of settlers. Each group of settlers had their own problems specific to their area and lifestyle. The settlers were resilient however and overcame their problems. As the frontier came to an end, some argued that the frontier had largely influenced American life and character.

Mississippi history is a sad history of slavery and oppression. It is a history of racism and refusal to let go of segregationist ideals. Mississippi history is enough to give many the blues. In fact, the Blues style music originated in Mississippi and gravitated outward from there. .Mississippi history and Blues history are intertwined. Delta Blues is a blues style that originated in the Mississippi Delta and influenced many musicians. Another musical art form, Jazz may be considered an offspring from the Blues and also started in the South. There are many Blues musicians and singers that come from Mississippi or have become linked to Mississippi for various reasons. Bessie Smith, Charley Patton, Muddy Waters, and Cassandra Wilson have

As a young Mississippian I can see solve of the problems that has hindered the growth and property of this state. Therefore, this research will focus on the government, the people and the economy of Mississippi. As we progress through the research, we will see how these topics have impact each other and the state. Mississippi government has the separation of legislative, executive and judicial branches. Governor Phil Bryant and Lieutenant governor Tate Reeves have responsibility for the executive branch. Both are Republicans and are elected for four years teams. Mississippi hold elections for the officials on odd- number years before presidential elections. Mississippi many time lags behind other states as far as changing laws on the books

Although I wasn’t in Mississippi during the ‘Freedom Summer’, I had a solid understanding of how life was during the ‘Freedom Summer’. This was years of racism and segregation towards the blacks in the US during the Civil Rights Movement. My aspect type was racism, and I learned of its impact on life through our analysis in the class of The Color Purple (1982) by Alice Walker, an epistolary novel about the lives of black people in rural dominated white racist Georgia during the 1920’s-50’s. Furthermore, we discussed Nelson Mandela’s Inaugural Speech in class, and how Mandela fought for Independence from the white racist government. With extra research of the Freedom Summer project launched by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating

The Mississippi Delta blues were a very important part of the history of rock and roll. Mississippi Delta Blues are also the music that around the time of the first World War would change and become rhythm and blues. The Mississippi delta was a fertile area of farmland in northwestern Mississippi. Prior to the civil war and the end of slavery, this area was mostly populated by slaves. These people created the Mississippi Delta blues, which was a form of folk music. Nevertheless, the end of slavery after the Civil War did not mean that it was the end of oppression on these individuals. Instead, new forms of oppression emerged ranging from segregation and disenfranchisement to the convict leasing system. The main purpose of segregation, the separation of whites and blacks, was to keep white woman away from black men. Although they were no longer slaves, and now had rights under the

“In the entire flooded region, 50 percent of all animals--half of all the mules, horses, cattle, hogs and chickens--had drowned. Thousands of tenant farmer shacks had simply disappeared.” Said exactly from John Barry, the writer of the book “Rising Tides,” or the book all about the Mississippi River Flood of 1927. This quote explains the whole concept of this flood. Everybody near the Mississippi River were affected, and became devastated in some way. That could be by losing a loved one, or by losing a home. This flood was the worst one in U.S. history. Death, destruction, and depression were served to everybody.

Mississippi joined the union in 1817 as the twentieth state of the United States of America. Mississippi get it name from the famous river that forms near the western border of Minnesota as Lake Itasca and ends to the bottom of Louisiana. Mississippi has a fertile area called the Mississippi Delta which is a floodplain meaning there’s a lot of luscious, rich and soft soil that’s fantastic for farming and harvesting. Some of the crops that grew in Mississippi was the cotton plants, bluegrass, and other things that natives have also brought from other parts of the continent. Cotton was sidereal

Mississippi Delta became very industrialized in the early 1980s. The Delta had risen from a swampy wilderness through its heyday as the New South’s Old South to its post-New Deal status as a planter’s paradise, where those who reaped the benefits of a rapidly modernizing plantation economy also managed to maintain their dominance in social and political sphere. Agriculture remains the backbone of the region 's economy, but farms that once required hundreds of people have become more technical. In the Delta, cotton was once king and many people became dependent upon the development of cotton, and now cotton no longer need someone to pick it, farmers have target the growth of livestock, soybeans, sweet potatoes to make profit. By the late 1980s to 1990s, the proportion of all jobs in natural resources and manufacturing had decline from 31 percent to 29 percent in the Delta. Recently, U.S. Department of Labor has proven that the unemployment rate in Tallahatchie County was about 10 percent, reaching a year high of about 13.5 percent by the mid of 2010.