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  2. Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Kaniya Fobs House stands in northern Jackson, in what is called the Elraine Subdivision. This area was developed as the first planned middle-class subdivision for African-Americans in Mississippi after World War II. The house is on the north side of Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, a few doors east of its junction with Missouri Street.

  3. Mississippi State Penitentiary - Wikipedia

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    Parchman roadsign The original superintendent's residence at Mississippi State Penitentiary. For much of the 19th century after the American Civil War, the state of Mississippi used a convict lease system for its prisoners; lessees paid fees to the state and were responsible for feeding, clothing and housing prisoners who worked for them as laborers.

  4. Arthur Guyton - Wikipedia

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    Arthur Clifton Guyton (September 8, 1919 – April 3, 2003) was an American physiologist.. Guyton is well known for his Textbook of Medical Physiology, which quickly became the standard text on the subject in medical schools.

  5. Abortion in Mississippi - Wikipedia

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    These states also tended to resist expanding Medicaid, family leave, medical leave, and sex education in public schools. [7] In 2017, Georgia, Ohio, Missouri, Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi have among the highest rates of infant mortality in the United States. [7] Mississippi had an infant mortality rate of 8.6 deaths per 1,000 live births ...

  6. Jackson State University - Wikipedia

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    Jackson College in 1889. Jackson State University developed from Natchez Seminary, founded October 23, 1877, in Natchez, Mississippi.The seminary was affiliated with the American Baptist Home Mission Society of New York, who established it "for the moral, religious, and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and the neighboring states".

  7. Jackson Zoo - Wikipedia

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    The Jackson Zoo is a zoo that was established in 1919 in Jackson, Mississippi and exhibits over 120 species and approximately 250 individual animals, providing the public the opportunity to observe and study wildlife from around the world and region. [1]

  8. Jackson Academy (Mississippi) - Wikipedia

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    Jackson Academy is a private school in Jackson, Mississippi founded by Loyal M. Bearrs in 1959. [2] Bearrs claimed he established the school to teach using an accelerated phonics program he developed, [3] [4] but the school remained completely racially segregated until 1986, even forgoing tax exemption in 1970 to avoid having to accept Black students.

  9. Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization - Wikipedia

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    They found the most likely route to success with Mississippi, given that it had only one abortion center, Jackson's Women's Health, which performed abortions only up to the 16th week. The ADF believed that while a 15-week bill would affect only a small number of women, it would provide the most appeal to the Supreme Court in a split circuit ...