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MISSISSIPPI FOLK MUSIC AND FOLKLORE IN THE RECORDED COLLECTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE (The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress)
Cyl 3781-3816: Thirty-six cylinders including thirty-two of Choctaw Indian songs sung by Lysander Tubby, Olman Comby, and Robert Henry. Recorded by Frances Densmore, in and around Philadelphia, Mississppi, January 1933. Part of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Indian Affairs Collection (cat. nos. 2353-2382). ... Cyl 3501-3522: Twenty-two cylinders of Choctaw Indian songs, including twenty-six sung by Sidney Wesley. Recorded by Frances Densmore, near Philadelphia, Mississippi, January 1933. Part of the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of Indian Affairs Collection (cat. nos. 2192-2216, 2263-2273). ... [Read More]
Mississippi Weather
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We Shall Overcome -- The Cost
Southern blacks who tried to register to vote--and those who supported them--were typically jeered and harassed, beaten or killed. In 1963, the NAACP's Medgar Evers was gunned down in front of his wife and children in Jackson, Mississippi. Reverend George Lee of Belzoni, Mississippi, was murdered when he refused to remove his name from a list of registered voters, and farmer Herbert Lee of Liberty, Mississippi, was killed for having attended voter education classes. Three "Freedom Summer" field-workers--Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman--were shot down for their part in helping Mississippi blacks register and organize. Michael Schwerner, a social worker from Manhattan's Lower East Side, James Chaney, a local plasterer's apprentice, and Andrew Goodman, a Queens College anthropology student, disappeared in June 1964. Their bodies were discovered several months later in an earthen dam outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. Schwerner and Goodman had been shot once; Chaney, t ... [Read More]
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Mississippi Issued by the National Weather Service
Short Term Forecast Montgomery (Mississippi) SHORT TERM FORECASTNATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JACKSON MS453 PM CDT MON JUL 18 2005ARZ074-075-LAZ007>009-015-016-023>026-MSZ018-019-025>047-182330-ASHLEY-ATTALA-BOLIVAR-CARROLL-CATAHOULA-CHICOT-CHOCTAW-CLAY-CONCORDIA-EAST CARROLL-FRANKLIN LA-GRENADA-HOLMES-HUMPHREYS-ISSAQUENA-KEMPER-LEAKE-LEFLORE-LOWNDES-MADISON LA-MADISON MS-MONTGOMERY-MOREHOUSE-NESHOBA-NOXUBEE-OKTIBBEHA-RICHLAND-SHARKEY-SUNFLOWER-TENSAS-WARREN-WASHINGTON-WEBSTER-WEST CARROLL-WINSTON-YAZOO-INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ACKERMAN...BASTROP...BELZONI...CANTON...CARROLLTON...CARTHAGE...CLEVELAND...COLUMBUS...CROSSETT...DE KALB...EUPORA...GREENVILLE...GREENWOOD...GRENADA...HARRISONBURG...INDIANOLA...KOSCIUSKO...LAKE PROVIDENCE...LAKE VILLAGE...LEXINGTON...LOUISVILLE...MACON...MAYERSVILLE...OAK GROVE...PHILADELPHIA...RAYVILLE...ROLLING FORK...ST JOSEPH...STARKVILLE...TALLULAH...VICKSBURG...VIDALIA...WEST POINT...WINNSBORO...WINONA...YAZOO CITY.NOW...THROUGH 6:30 PM...SCATTERE ... [Read More]
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Civil Rights - Law and History/Criminal Civil Rights Enforcement
In June, 1964, 3 young men were working in Mississippi to help African-Americans obtain theircivil rights in voting, education and employment. The 3 young men were named AndrewGoodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner. On June 21, 1964, the young men visited achurch that had been fire bombed near Philadelphia, Mississippi. After leaving the site of thechurch bombing, the young men were arrested by members of the Neshoba County Sheriff'sDepartment for speeding. Later that night, they disappeared. ... [Read More]
U.S. Department of Labor --Veterans' Employment and Training Service (VETS) -- Staff Directory
PHILADELPHIA REGION ... Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19106-3310 ... PHILADELPHIA REGION ... [Read More]
Mississippi Headlines | The Official State Web Site of Mississippi
June 27, 2005 - Gov. Haley Barbour on Monday appointed J. Max Kilpatrick of Philadelphia to fill a vacant chancery judgeship in the 6th Chancery District, which includes Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba and Winston counties. ... [Read More]
Mississippi Freedom Summer Remembered
Driving into Philadelphia on this cool, spring day, there are novisible signs of the violent struggle that took place here almost fourdecades ago. But evidence of the change that was wrought here iseverywhere. On a city street, a black law enforcement officer drivesby in a patrol car -- unthinkable during segregation. At the countycourthouse, black and white employees seem to mix easily in a way thatwould not have been possible in the old Mississippi. ... And at the city library, black and white schoolchildren readattentively beside a stand carrying books about African American rolemodels -- everyone from movie star Denzel Washington to U.S. Secretaryof State Colin Powell. Both the librarians on duty on this day areAfrican American. Everyone asked in Philadelphia knows about the threecivil rights workers and what happened in Neshoba County duringMississippi Freedom Summer. ... [Read More]
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