Mississippi

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  4/12/2021
  

  ‘Darn’ Tootin’ It Is!’: Gov. Tate Reeves Again Declares Confederate Heritage Month, SCV Says

  While official state web pages have not posted such a proclamation, Governor Tate Reeves has apparently signed a proclamation again declaring April Confederate Heritage Month, as posted on the Facebook page of the Sons of Confederate Veterans of Rankin County, MS. Writer Donna Ladd says Reeves' proclamation equates the Union and Confederate causes in the Civil War.

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  2/17/2021
  

  He Risked His Life Filming A Mississippi Senator's Plantation In 1964

  Senator James Eastland of Mississippi justified his segregationist politics with paternalism. Conditions on his family's plantation showed otherwise. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  2/11/2021
  

  American Democracy Is Only 55 Years Old—And Hanging by a Thread

  Atlantic Editor Vann Newkirk examines the recent and imperiled history of American democracy since the Voting Rights Act, including by interviewing Charles Hamilton, co-author of the keystone book "Black Power." 

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• SOURCE: Reckon South
  1/11/2021
  

  Capitol Riot: The 48 Hours that Echoed Generations of Southern Conflict

  Hours after Mississippi legislators took the final step of removing a Confederate emblem from their state banner, a violent white mob waved the Stars and Bars as it ransacked the U.S. Capitol. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Today
  12/29/2020
  

  University of Mississippi Professors Research Legacy of Slavery at State’s Flagship University

  A multidisciplinary task force of scholars at the University of Mississippi is working to tell the stories of people enslaved at the university and examine the role of slavery in building the institution. 

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• SOURCE: The Bulwark
  1/4/2021
  

  The Bravery of William Winter

  by Stuart Stevens

  Former Mississippi Governor William Winter should be remembered for facing down extremists and advancing a moderate vision of change in Mississippi that centered on education. He died at 97 on December 18. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  12/21/2020
  

  Trump Taps Ex-Gov. Bryant for ‘1776’ Effort to Keep History Friendly to White ‘Heroes’

  The appointment of Confederate sympathizer Phil Bryant to Trump's "patriotic" history commission shows that it is an exercise in ideology and culture war politics, not a defense of historical rigor. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/22/2020
  

  The Latest Chapter in Mississippi’s Long History of Squelching Anti-Racist Activism

  by William Sturkey

  The silencing of journalists and academics has always been integral to the regime of white supremacy in Mississippi. Now that new challenges are emerging to that regime, attacks on academic freedom, including the firing of historian Garrett Felber, have resurfaced.

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• SOURCE: Jackson Clarion-Ledger
  12/2/2020
  

  The Story of a 1970s Mississippi Textbook that Changed how Students Learned about their Past

  Contemporary historians look back on the long struggle to unseat the "Lost Cause" myth and other white supremacist ideas from the state's history curriculum that began with the introduction of "Mississippi: Conflict and Change" to state high schools in 1980.

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  11/19/2020
  

  The Devil Had Nothing to Do With It

  by Greil Marcus

  The music writer looks at three recent books on the Mississippi blues singer and guitarist Robert Johnson, looking to pull his story out of the realm of myth. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/11/2020
  

  Mississippi Republican Calls for His State to ‘Succeed from the Union’ after Biden Victory

  "Even before the race was called, Mississippi’s five Republicans in Congress released a joint statement that warned, without evidence, about the existence of “voting irregularities” across the country."

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• SOURCE: Vox
  11/4/2020
  

  Mississippi Says Goodbye to Confederate Emblem and Adopts a New State Flag

  The ballot initiative’s success is evidence of how quickly attitudes toward Confederate iconography have changed throughout the state.

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• SOURCE: Skipped History
  10/15/2020
  

  How Mississippi Got Away with Teaching Racist History (Skipped History)

  It took litigation to drag Mississippi's history instruction out of the Lost Cause mythology. 

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• SOURCE: The Bitter Southerner
  10/14/2020
  

  Premiere: Mississippi Justice

  The Bitter Southerner magazine and PBS's The American Experience partner on a short film that examines the plot to murder the civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner in 1964. 

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• SOURCE: Iowa Public Radio
  9/23/2020
  

  “The White Man Who Stayed” Tells A Story Of Activism During The Civil Rights Era (audio)

  Poet James Autry's newest book tells the story of his cousin, a white man who remained in Mississippi as a liberal advocate for integration and justice. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
  9/16/2020
  

  State Auditor Investigating Ole Miss Professor Who Participated In Strike

  A controversial sociologist at the University of Mississippi has drawn attention from the state auditor for participation in the #ScholarStrike protest movement. 

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• SOURCE: Mississippi Free Press
  9/3/2020
  

  Good Trouble’ In A White Flight Suburb: Oak Grove High Teens Confront Racism

  by Ashton Pittman

  Black Lives Matter protests organized by high school students near Hattiesburg, Mississippi are responding to inequities created by the growth of white flight suburbs after "Brown v. Board of Education," when manipulated city and school district boundaries and private "segregation academies" helped whites to hoard resources and educational opportunity.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/18/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer Risked Her Life for the Right to Vote

  Fannie Lou Hamer suffered unspeakable violence and intimidation at the hands of white supremacists and police to demand the right to vote, and challenged the Democratic Party to reject its southern segregationist branch in 1964.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  8/20/2020
  

  Fannie Lou Hamer’s Dauntless Fight for Black Americans’ Right to Vote

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As Hamer and her Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party colleagues pointed out to the 1964 Democratic National Convention, a “whites-only” Democratic Party representing a state in which one out of five residents were black undermined the very notion of representative democracy. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  The Mississippi Flag and the Shadow of Lynching

  by David T.Z. Mindich

  Lynching helped to raise the odious flag in 1894.  But in 2020, hundreds of thousands of marchers protesting the lynching of George Floyd brought the flag down.