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Jackson, MS Metropolitan Statistical Area is a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) in the central region of the U.S. state of Mississippi that covers seven counties: Copiah, Hinds, Holmes, Madison, Rankin, Simpson, and Yazoo. As of the 2010 census, the Jackson MSA had a population of 586,320. According to 2019 estimates, the population has ...
Werlein's for Music is a defunct music store and sheet music publishing company that served the New Orleans Metropolitan Area, and elsewhere in Louisiana and Mississippi, for approximately 150 years. [1] At its peak, Werlein's for Music had satellite stores in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana, Biloxi, Mississippi, and Jackson ...
est. 20 lynchers. est. 480 lynch party. Motive. False accusation. Vigilantism. White supremacy. Convictions. None. On April 13, 1937, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, two black men, were lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper.
A destructive series of four tornadoes hit the Southeastern United States during March 3-4, 1966. The worst event was a violent and long-lived F5 tornado, dubbed the Candlestick Park tornado after the name of a recently opened Jackson, Mississippi shopping center that was leveled by the storm. [2] The storm would bring catastrophic damage in ...
The 1963 Jackson State Tigers football team represented Jackson College for Negro Teachers (now known as Jackson State University) as a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) during the 1963 NCAA College Division football season. Led by first-year head coach Edward Clemons, the Tigers compiled an overall record of 4–5, with a ...
Southern Mississippi 55, Louisville 26, (November 11, 1952) - The first Division I-A game played in the stadium. Ole Miss 39, UT Chattanooga 6 (September 19, 1953) - This was the first game played by Ole Miss in the stadium. Texas Tech 27, Mississippi State 20, (October 31, 1953) - This was the first game played by Mississippi State in the stadium.
Wednesdays in Mississippi. Wednesdays in Mississippi was an activist group during the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the 1960s. Northern women of different races and faiths traveled to Mississippi to develop relationships with their southern peers and to create bridges of understanding across regional, racial, and class lines.
Coordinates: 32.298513°N 90.209448°W. The boys' dormitory, c. 1910. J. P. Campbell College (1890–1964) was a private junior college in Jackson, Mississippi, focused on educating African American students. [1] It was affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. [2] In its final years, the early 1960s, it enrolled three ...