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Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County,Mississippi,United States. The population was 7,118 at the 2020 census.
Deborah Ross is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the U.S. representative for North Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2021. Her district is based in Raleigh. A member of the Democratic Party,Ross served as a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from 2003 to 2013,representing the state's 38th and then 34th House district,including much of northern Raleigh and surrounding suburbs in Wake County.
The murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner,also known as the Freedom Summer murders,the Mississippi civil rights workers' murders,or the Mississippi Burning murders,were the abduction and murder of three activists in Philadelphia,Mississippi,in June 1964,during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney from Meridian,Mississippi,and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner from New York City. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization,the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). They had been working with the Freedom Summer campaign by attempting to register African Americans in Mississippi to vote. Since 1890 and through the turn of the century,Southern states had systematically disenfranchised most black voters by discrimination in voter registration and voting.
Bradford Johnson Dye Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 27th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1980 until 1992. Dye was the only individual in state history to have served as lieutenant governor for 12 consecutive years.
The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is one of three federally recognized tribes of Choctaw people,and the only one in the state of Mississippi. On April 20,1945,this tribe organized under the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Their reservation included lands in Neshoba,Leake,Newton,Scott,Jones,Attala,Kemper,and Winston counties. The Mississippi Choctaw regained stewardship of their mother mound,Nanih Waiya mounds and cave in 2008. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw have declared August 18 as a tribal holiday to celebrate their regaining control of the sacred site. The other two Choctaw groups are the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,the third largest tribe in the United States,and the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians,located in Louisiana.
Charles Delbert Hosemann Jr. is an American politician serving as the 33rd lieutenant governor of Mississippi,since January 2020. From 2008 to 2020,he served as the secretary of state of Mississippi.
Cindy Hyde-Smith is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Mississippi since 2018. A member of the Republican Party,she was previously the Mississippi Commissioner of Agriculture and Commerce and a member of the Mississippi State Senate.
Denise Grimsley is a Republican member of the Florida State Senate,representing parts of Central and Southwest Florida since 2012. She has represented the 26th district,which includes Highlands,Okeechobee,Glades,DeSoto,Hardee,southern Polk,eastern Charlotte,and northern Lee Counties,since 2016,after being redistricted from the 21st district. She served four terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing the Highlands County-based 77th district from 2004 to 2012.
Maria Lorts Sachs is a Democratic politician from Florida. She was a member of the Florida Senate from 2010 to 2016,representing parts of Broward and Palm Beach Counties. Previously,she served two terms in the Florida House of Representatives,representing part of southern Palm Beach County from 2006 until her election to the Senate. After her seat was redistricted in 2016,she opted not to seek reelection,and was hired as the executive director of Innovation Florida,a nonprofit advocacy organization.
On August 3,1980,presidential candidate Ronald Reagan appeared at the Neshoba County Fair in Neshoba County,Mississippi,to give a speech on states' rights. The location,which was near the site of the 1964 murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner was,according to critics,evidence of racial bias.
Lucy Haeran Koh is an American lawyer serving as a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Koh previously served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California from 2010 to 2021. She also served as a California state court judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2008 to 2010. She is the first Korean American woman to serve on a federal appellate court in the United States.
Wilhelmina Marie Wright is an inactive senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota. She is the only jurist in Minnesota's history to be state district court judge,appellate court judge and state supreme court justice. She was formerly an associate justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court,a judge of the Minnesota Court of Appeals,and a judge of the Minnesota District Court,Second Judicial District.
Iris Turner Kelso was a Mississippi-born journalist who worked for three newspapers in New Orleans,Louisiana,including the New Orleans Times-Picayune.
Melanie Sojourner is an American politician from the state of Mississippi. She served in the Mississippi State Senate,representing the 37th district. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Olen Lavelle Burrage was a Mississippi farmer and businessman. He was alleged to have been linked to the murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in June 1964. The bodies of the Civil Rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam that was under construction on a farm owned by Burrage.
Herman Tucker was an American truck driver and heavy equipment operator. He was allegedly linked to the murders of Chaney,Goodman,and Schwerner who were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan in June 1964. The bodies of the civil rights workers were found buried in an earthen dam on Olen Burrage's farm that Tucker had helped to construct.
Barbara Anita Blackmon is an American lawyer and politician who served in the Mississippi State Senate,representing the 21st district from 2016 to 2024. She previously served in the Senate from 1992 to 2004.
Nicole Akins Boyd is an American attorney,business woman,teacher,volunteer,and politician. She is a Republican who has served the 9th district in the Mississippi State Senate since 2020.
Jeremy Thomas England is an American politician serving in the Mississippi State Senate from the 51st district since 2020.
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