Mississippians Research Paper

The mississippians were a group of people from North America. They lived here about 2700 years ago. They were very different than what we are used to now.

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 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.

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 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party was an American political party founded around the end of April of 1964. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, there goal was to contest the state's all white Democratic Party, during the civil rights movement. Black and white Mississippians organized with assistance from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Council of Federated Organizations, to challenge the legitimacy of the white only Democratic Party. For years, the blacks in Mississippi had been denied their rights to participate in the electoral process. The group wanted to run several candidates for the Senate and Congressional elections on June 2, 1964. The group began to protest the Democratic Party who wanted to seat an all-white delegation

This file describes a Tougaloo negro attempting to attend an all-white University of Mississippi. The file was written by the Associated Press. There were three African American males wanting to attend the all-white University of Mississippi. The first male was James Meredith an African American male. James Meredith wanted to attend the University of Mississippi an all-white University but they found ways to stop him from attending. He wanted to attend summer school. He was accepted but he was later withdrawn when they found out his race. The second African America male was Cleve McDowell. He was thrown out of the University for having pistol on campus. He had known Meredith but he would not say if he has talked to the former school about the possibility of attending the school.

The Mississippians grew food very well. They mostly grew corn, beans, and squash. They also grew pumpkins, tobacco, and sunflower. They grew most of the food in small gardens; this means that they are horticulturalist. They also would eat wild plants, nuts, fruits, and they hunted small animals, deer, turkeys, fish, and turtles.

The Mississippi Governor’s Mansion is the second oldest continually occupied governor’s residence in the United States. In 1842, the first residents moved in. The mansion was chosen as a National Historic Landmark in 1975. It made history at the time as one of only two governor’s residences to receive this honor.

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

Ali Ware Mrs. Buckley English I 14 February 2018 The Evolution of the Mississippi Delta The Mississippi Delta is a region 200 miles long and 85 miles wide. Home to the most fertile soil in the world, the Delta-Yazoo Basin Region is a rare place.

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 conquest to travel to the west of the Mississippi was driven be different things for each person or family. Some Sought to make it rich and to have landownership for their families. Some sought to escape the religious persecution they felt from other back east and fro social freedoms. All this meant something different to each person as it would today if people travel from their known homeland for a different reason. As people traveled west four territories were created, Texas, Oregon, Utah and California and each meant something different in the way it was settled (Schultz, p.222, 2009).

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 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

The topic of good and evil first arose in the book of Genesis and whether an act is good or evil is still contentious in today’s society. An individual’s perception of what is good and evil is always subjective, as it will have been shaped by religious beliefs and cultural influences. Despite the differing views that arise, good and evil are polar opposites and have been symbolised as being dualistic, such as the battle between light and dark or God and the Devil. Burning Mississippi, 1988, a film based around a FBI investigation into the murders of three civil rights workers in the U.S. state of Mississippi in 1964, clearly demonstrates how the line between good and evil is in fact permeable and, depending on the situational pressures, that almost