This subcategory contains 49 links

'A Shaky Truce' : Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960- 1980(517 clicks)

100 Years at Perthside(462 clicks)
"Perthshire is a plantation in Bolivar County, in the center of the Mississippi Delta. One family has owned the plantation for four generations. Many families have worked it. Throughout this time, Perthshire had a community life like that of any small town--with currency, laws, social activities, churches, schools, store, a rail depot, and a baseball team of its own. Using oral histories, films, photographs, letters, legal documents, and maps, One Hundred Years at Perthshire is a multimedia web site that explores the life of this plantation as it underwent the tremendous changes of the twentieth century."

1927 Flood Photograph Collection(458 clicks)

America's Blue Yodel(557 clicks)
Jimmie Rodgers

An Early Black History of Ocean Springs(474 clicks)
by Ray L. Bellande

Belle Kearney, A Slaveholder's Daughter(501 clicks)
Her life in Mississippi in the 19th century.

Betsy Love and the Mississippi Married Women's Property Act of 1839(452 clicks)
by LeAnne Howe

Bombed, Burned, and Boycotted(463 clicks)
by Hazel Brannon Smith

Chickasaws: The Unconquerable People(437 clicks)
by Greg O’Brien

Citizens Council, The(527 clicks)

Delta Blues Museum(662 clicks)
"The rich alluvial plain that is the Delta landscape, and home to Clarksdale, gives visitors to North Mississippi a wonderful backdrop in which they can start their journey through the "birthplace of the blues". The Delta Blues Museum's mission is to assure that visitors learn about the Delta Blues, and stands ready to share that knowledge with all who come."

Delta Photo Road Show: Discovering the Unknown Photos of the Mississippi Delta(475 clicks)
This compilation of 'never before seen' photographs paired with the oral history shared by each donor creates a unique look at the history of many Mississippi Delta towns, events, people and places. This piece was a final project of the History Channel's "Save Our History" Grant awarded to the Delta Center for Culture

Delta State College yearbooks(481 clicks)
The Broom

Early Slave Laws of Mississippi(468 clicks)

First Monday and Trade Days, Ripley, Mississippi(471 clicks)
"The First Monday Sale and Trade Days (generally known as ?First Monday?) has been part of Ripley?s community life since 1893. Originally held on the first Monday of every month, it now takes place on the weekend preceding the first Monday."

Growth of the Lumber Industry, 1840-1930(437 clicks)
Mississippi was one the the most important lumber industry states.

Hattiesburg Historical Society(555 clicks)

History Markers of Mississippi(486 clicks)
History told through historical markers

Horace Harned on Race(518 clicks)
RACE:MISSISSIPPI TRANSCRIPT OF HORACE HARNED VIDEO SEGMENT. Horace Harned, Plantation Owner, Oktoc, Mississippi

Independent Minds and Shared Community: Married Women's Wills in Amite County, Mississippi, 1840-191(513 clicks)

Jefferson Davis Estate Davis(486 clicks)

Makin' Do(486 clicks)
Vimeo video. Produced by the Department of History and the Media and Documentary Projects Center at the University of Mississippi. This Oral History based film was produced by history graduate students and documents the experiences of women in Northeast Mississippi who "Made Do" over the course of the 20th Century.

Manuel Gayoso and Spanish Natchez(438 clicks)
By Jack Elliot, Jr.

Mississippi Black Code (1865)(455 clicks)
"The Mississippi Black Code is an example of the manner by which the southern states strove to maintain the old order while limiting the newly acquired rights of African Americans. Many people in the North as well as the Republicans in Congress were alarmed by the Black Codes. Reaction to the codes helped to radicalize Congress and catalyzed its attempt to seize control of Reconstruction from the President Andrew Johnson, ultimately leading to the president’s impeachment."

Mississippi Folklife(460 clicks)
Mississippi Folklife, formerly the Mississippi Folklore Register, publishes articles, photographic essays, and interviews about the diversity of folklife and culture in Mississippi and adjoining regions. The best source for contemporary interpretations of Mississippi folk culture, each issue also includes announcements, cultural news, and book reviews.

Mississippi History Now(459 clicks)
From the Mississippi Historical Society

Mississippi Oral History Project(515 clicks)

Mississippi River Flood 1927(447 clicks)
YouTube films about the 1927 Flood

Mississippi River Flood of 1927(446 clicks)
Short silent film produced by the Signal Corps of the Mississippi flood of 1927.

Mississippi Writers and Musicians(508 clicks)
The site includes actors and artists as well. A high school student project.

Mississippi's Free State of Jones(486 clicks)

Mule Racing in the Mississippi Delta(460 clicks)

Mushulatubbee and Choctaw Removal: Chiefs Confront a Changing World(446 clicks)
by Greg O'Brien

Natchez(448 clicks)

Natchez Indians(463 clicks)

Oh Freedom Over Me(530 clicks)
Mississippi Freedom Summer

Old Ways: Church and Family(437 clicks)
"Most of the photographs on this website are from “Old Ways: Church and Family,” an exhibition held at the Center’s Gammill Gallery in the fall of 2001. The pictures were made at Hurricane Creek Primitive Baptist Church and Rocky Mount Primitive Baptist Church, both located in rural north Mississippi and both pastored by 92-year-old Elder Robert Atwater."

Pushmataha(498 clicks)

Reconstruction in Mississippi, 1865-1876(564 clicks)
by Jason Phillips

Sam Bowers, Jr., Interviews(451 clicks)
Sam H. Bowers, Jr., was convicted in 1998 for his role in the 1966 firebombing death of Mississippi civil rights activist Vernon Dahmer. Bowers died November 6, 2006, in the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman.

Sovereignty Commission Online(451 clicks)
Series 2515: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records, 1994-2006 comprises the digitized records of the defunct Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, which functioned as the state's official counter civil rights agency from 1956-1973

State of Siege: Mississippi Whites and the Civil Rights Movemnent(632 clicks)

The ACLU of Mississippi and the State Sovereignty Commission(449 clicks)
For over twenty years, the MsACLU has been involved in an effort to preserve and make public the records of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, a state spying agency founded in the 1950s and operating through the early 1970s. The purpose of the Sovereignty Commission was to counter the Civil Rights movement; to accomplish this purpose, the agencies activities ranged from spying to public relations.

The Origins of the Mississippi Delta Blues(445 clicks)
Original essay by James Miller.

The Rural Electrification of Northeast Mississippi(554 clicks)

The Seafood Industry in Biloxi: Its Early History, 1848-1930(435 clicks)
by Deanne Stephens Nuwer

When I Was a Little Girl(455 clicks)
Anna Hardeman Meade. Life on a Mississippi plantation

Whites in the Land of the Blues(464 clicks)
Memory and Judgment by Jane Adams and D. Gorton

‘Is This America?': 50 Years Ago Sharecroppers Challenged Mississippi Apartheid, LBJ, and the Nation(457 clicks)