George GarnerDec 8
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/
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseApr 28, 2025

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/

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ResearchBuzz: FirehoseJan 13, 2025

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/

Show threadJonathan EmmesediFeb 27, 2024

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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

Cooperative Farming in Mississippi - 2004-11

By 1932 the Great Depression had the country in its relentless grip and most Americans believed that something was very wrong.

Show threadkilombavitaApr 22, 2023

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Carroll County, Mississippi Abstracts of Wills 1834-1875, Divorces 1857-1875 by Betty Couch Wiltshire

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carroll county, mississippi was formed in 1833 from the u.s. government's expropriation of indigenous lands. the earliest divorce found in the chancery court...

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