Barbour County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census,the population was 25,223. Its county seat is Clayton. Its largest city is Eufaula. Its name is in honor of James Barbour,who served as Governor of Virginia.
Monroeville is the county seat of Monroe County,Alabama,United States. At the 2020 census its population was 5,951.
Yazoo City is a city in Yazoo County,Mississippi,United States. It was named after the Yazoo River,which,in turn was named by the French explorer Robert La Salle in 1682 as "Rivière des Yazous" in reference to the Yazoo tribe living near the river's mouth. It is the county seat of Yazoo County and the principal city of the Yazoo City Micropolitan Statistical Area,which is part of the larger Jackson–Yazoo City Combined Statistical Area. According to the 2010 census,the population was 11,403. The most important industry in 2021 is a group of federal prisons.
Nelle Harper Lee was an American novelist whose 1960 novel To Kill a Mockingbird won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and became a classic of modern American literature. She assisted her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966). Her second and final novel,Go Set a Watchman,was an earlier draft of Mockingbird that was published in July 2015 as a sequel.
Haley Reeves Barbour is an American attorney,politician,and lobbyist who served as the 63rd governor of Mississippi from 2004 to 2012. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1993 to 1997.
Alphonso Michael Espy is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 25th United States secretary of agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was both the first African American and the first person from the Deep South to hold the position. A member of the Democratic Party,Espy previously served as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district from 1987 to 1993.
The Mississippi Republican Party is the Mississippi state affiliate of the United States Republican Party. The party chairman is Frank Bordeaux,and the party is based in Jackson,Mississippi. The original Republican Party of Mississippi was founded following the American Civil War,and the current incarnation of the Mississippi Republican Party was founded in 1956. The party would grow in popularity after the 1964 Civil Rights Act and is currently the dominant party in the state.
Clyde Kennard was an American Korean War veteran and civil rights leader from Hattiesburg,Mississippi. In the 1950s,he attempted several times to enroll at the all-white Mississippi Southern College to complete his undergraduate degree started at the University of Chicago. Although the United States Supreme Court had ruled in 1954 that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional,the college rejected him. Kennard was among the thousands of local activists in the 1940s and 1950s who pressed for their rights.
Donna K. Ladd is an American investigative journalist who co-founded the Jackson Free Press,a community magazine,and later,the Mississippi Free Press,an online news publication that emphasizes solutions journalism where Ladd currently serves as editor. She is noted for highlighting the historical and continuing role of race in current events,for investigative reporting that helped convict klansman James Ford Seale for his role in the 1964 civil rights kidnappings and deaths of Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore,and for her coverage of Frank Melton,the controversial mayor of Jackson,Mississippi.
Confederate History Month is a month designated by seven state governments in the Southern United States for the purpose of recognizing and honoring the Confederate States of America. April has traditionally been chosen,as Confederate Memorial Day falls during that month in many of these states. The designation of a month as Confederate History Month began in 1994.
Nanette Joan Workman is a singer-songwriter,actress and author,who has been based in Quebec,Canada,during much of her career. She holds dual citizenship of both the United States and Canada. She was raised by musician parents in Jackson,Mississippi,where she began her first performances. Although raised as an English speaker,she mainly performs in French. She has recorded with well-known musicians in the U.S.,Canada,UK and France and has been recognized in Mississippi by being elected to that state's Musicians Hall of Fame and having a Francophone house named after her at the state university.
The 2007 Mississippi gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday,November 6. Incumbent Haley Barbour was re-elected to serve a four-year term as Governor of Mississippi from January 15,2008,through January 10,2012. The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi is also on the ballot and elected for the same time period. This was the first time that Panola County and Yalobusha County voted Republican for governor since Reconstruction.
The Election Massacre of 1874,or Coup of 1874,took place on election day,November 3,1874,near Eufaula,Alabama in Barbour County. Freedmen comprised a majority of the population and had been electing Republican candidates to office. Members of an Alabama chapter of the White League,a paramilitary group supporting the Democratic Party's drive to regain political power in the county and state,used firearms to ambush black Republicans at the polls.
Tropical Depression Ten was a short-lived tropical cyclone that made landfall on the Florida Panhandle in September 2007. The system developed as a subtropical depression on September 21 in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico from the interaction of a tropical wave,the tail end of a cold front,and an upper-level low. Initially containing a poorly defined circulation and intermittent thunderstorm activity,the system transitioned into a tropical depression after convection increased over the center. Tracking northwestward,the depression moved ashore near Fort Walton Beach early on September 22 and dissipated over southeastern Alabama shortly thereafter.
The Effects of Hurricane Dennis in Mississippi were mostly minor and included one indirect death. On June 29,2005,a tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa. Gradually,the system organized on July 2 and formed a broad low-pressure area. The system continued to develop,and became a tropical depression on July 4. Tracking westward,it became a tropical storm on July 5 and a hurricane on July 7. Dennis rapidly intensified to attain Category 4 status on the Saffir–Simpson scale before making landfall on Cuba. The hurricane weakened to Category 1 status before re-emerging in the Gulf of Mexico and intensifying to Category 4 strength. Dennis made landfall on the Florida Panhandle on July 10 as a Category 3 hurricane,then tracked over southeast Alabama and entered Mississippi as a tropical depression.
The 2003 Mississippi gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2003 to elect the governor of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Former Republican National Committee chairman Haley Barbour defeated incumbent Democrat Ronnie Musgrove by a margin of 6.78%.
Momentum Mississippi is a public–private partnership that aims to develop the economy and increase employment levels in the U.S. state of Mississippi. It was created in 2004 by Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to implement recommendations of the "Blueprint Mississippi" study,which was initiated by the Mississippi Economic Council,and was adopted in 2005. Its major goals are to increase per capita income and employment,bring new investments and jobs,and improve education in Mississippi,through coordinated strategies and legislation.
Leslie D. King is an associate justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
Lynn Fitch is an American lawyer,politician,and the 40th Mississippi Attorney General. She is the first woman to serve in the role and the first Republican since 1878. Previously,she was the 54th State Treasurer of Mississippi from 2012 to 2020.
Canton High School is a public high school in Canton,Mississippi. It is part of the Canton Public School District. All of the student body is categorized as economically disadvantaged and almost 100 percent are African American.
