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| jones county mississippi history: The Free State of Jones Victoria E. Bynum, 2003-01-14 Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory. |
| jones county mississippi history: The State of Jones Sally Jenkins, John Stauffer, 2010-05-04 Covering the same ground as the major motion picture The Free State of Jones, starring Matthew McConaughey, this is the extraordinary true story of the anti-slavery Southern farmer who brought together poor whites, army deserters and runaway slaves to fight the Confederacy in deepest Mississippi. Moving and powerful. -- The Washington Post. In 1863, after surviving the devastating Battle of Corinth, Newton Knight, a poor farmer from Mississippi, deserted the Confederate Army and began a guerrilla battle against it. A pro-Union sympathizer in the deep South who refused to fight a rich man’s war for slavery and cotton, for two years he and other residents of Jones County engaged in an insurrection that would have repercussions far beyond the scope of the Civil War. In this dramatic account of an almost forgotten chapter of American history, Sally Jenkins and John Stauffer upend the traditional myth of the Confederacy as a heroic and unified Lost Cause, revealing the fractures within the South. |
| jones county mississippi history: Legend of the Free State of Jones Rudy H. Leverett, 2009-10-07 Legend of the Free State of Jones was the first authoritative explanation of just what did happen in Jones County in 1864 to give rise to the legend and now to a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey. |
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| jones county mississippi history: Red Book Alice Eichholz, 2004 ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how--Publisher decription. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Free State of Jones, Movie Edition Victoria E. Bynum, 2016-01-25 Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where they declared their loyalty to the U.S. government. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed-race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend--what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out--reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory. In a new afterword, Bynum updates readers on recent scholarship, current issues of race and Southern heritage, and the coming movie that make this Civil War story essential reading. The Free State of Jones film, starring Matthew McConaughey, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Keri Russell, will be released in May 2016. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Free State of Jones and The Echo of the Black Horn Thomas Jefferson Knight, Ethel Knight, 2016-07-12 Subject of the upcoming film Free State of Jones, this book provides recollections of the man who took on the Confederacy during the Civil War and established the liberated Mississippi county. Soldier, Father, Rebel. Outlaw. A man of deep convictions, Captain Newt Knight disagreed with the values of the South and was accused of deserting the Confederate army. He was a believer in doing what was just. During the Civil War, he formed his own band of deserters who would rebel against the Confederacy and support the Union. In the spring of 1864, the government in Jones County was effectively overthrown, and, the county was dubbed “The Free State of Jones.” Eventually, Knight would establish a mixed race town for both whites and former slaves to inhabit together. This edition merges two rare books on the subject; Thomas Jefferson Knight’s The Life and Activities of Captain Newt Knight and Ethel Knight’s The Echo at the Black Horn. Each paints a singular portrait of this elusive historical figure. Was he Civil War-Era Robin Hood or a manipulative cult leader? Both surely have fictitious elements determined by the authors' biases. Historian Jim Kelly provides a forward that helps examine the importance of each position on Newt Knight’s role in the conflict and what his motivations truly were. Now the subject of a new feature film, the experiences of Newt Knight will be brought back to light. This highly informative book helps to explore his life and give an in-depth look at the man—through the eyes of his son and grand-niece. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Deepest South of All Richard Grant, 2021-08-31 Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Prominent white families dress up in hoopskirts and Confederate uniforms for ritual celebrations of the Old South, yet Natchez is also progressive enough to elect a gay black man for mayor with 91 percent of the vote-- |
| jones county mississippi history: The Long Shadow of the Civil War Victoria E. Bynum, 2010-04-15 The Long Shadow of the Civil War relates uncommon narratives about common Southern folks who fought not with the Confederacy, but against it. Focusing on regions in three Southern states--North Carolina, Mississippi, and Texas--Victoria E. Bynum introduces Unionist supporters, guerrilla soldiers, defiant women, socialists, populists, free blacks, and large interracial kin groups that belie stereotypes of Southerners as uniformly supportive of the Confederate cause. Centered on the concepts of place, family, and community, Bynum's insightful and carefully documented work effectively counters the idea of a unified South caught in the grip of the Lost Cause. |
| jones county mississippi history: Gender and the Sectional Conflict Nina Silber, 2015-12-01 In an insightful exploration of gender relations during the Civil War, Nina Silber compares broad ideological constructions of masculinity and femininity among Northerners and Southerners. She argues that attitudes about gender shaped the experiences of the Civil War's participants, including how soldiers and their female kin thought about their causes and obligations in wartime. Despite important similarities, says Silber, differing gender ideologies shaped the way each side viewed, participated in, and remembered the war. Silber finds that rhetoric on both sides connected soldiers' reasons for fighting to the women left at home. Consequently, although in different ways, women on both sides took up new roles to advance the wartime agenda. At the same time, both Northern and Southern women were accused of waning patriotism as the war dragged on, but their responses to such charges differed. Finally, noting that our postwar memories are often dominated by images of Southern belles, Silber considers why Northern women, despite their heroic contributions to the Union cause, have faded from Civil War memory. Silber's investigation offers a new understanding of how Unionists and Confederates perceived their reasons for fighting, of the new attitudes and experiences that women--black and white--on both sides took up, and of the very different ways that Northern and Southern women were remembered after the war ended. |
| jones county mississippi history: History of Newton County, Mississippi Alfred John Brown, 1894 |
| jones county mississippi history: Archeology of Mississippi Calvin Smith Brown, 1926 |
| jones county mississippi history: Congressional Record United States. Congress, 1962 The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873) |
| jones county mississippi history: Everything Is Cinema Richard Brody, 2008-05-13 From New Yorker film critic Richard Brody, Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard presents a serious-minded and meticulously detailed . . . account of the lifelong artistic journey of one of the most influential filmmakers of our age (The New York Times). When Jean-Luc Godard wed the ideals of filmmaking to the realities of autobiography and current events, he changed the nature of cinema. Unlike any earlier films, Godard's work shifts fluidly from fiction to documentary, from criticism to art. The man himself also projects shifting images—cultural hero, fierce loner, shrewd businessman. Hailed by filmmakers as a—if not the—key influence on cinema, Godard has entered the modern canon, a figure as mysterious as he is indispensable. In Everything Is Cinema, critic Richard Brody has amassed hundreds of interviews to demystify the elusive director and his work. Paying as much attention to Godard's technical inventions as to the political forces of the postwar world, Brody traces an arc from the director's early critical writing, through his popular success with Breathless, to the grand vision of his later years. He vividly depicts Godard's wealthy conservative family, his fluid politics, and his tumultuous dealings with women and fellow New Wave filmmakers. Everything Is Cinema confirms Godard's greatness and shows decisively that his films have left their mark on screens everywhere. |
| jones county mississippi history: When Evil Lived in Laurel Curtis Wilkie, 2022-09-27 One of NPR's Best Books of the Year A finalist of the for the 2022 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights–era killing. By early 1966, the work of Vernon Dahmer was well known in south Mississippi. A light-skinned Black man, he was a farmer, grocery store owner, and two-time president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP. He and Medgar Evers founded a youth NAACP chapter in Hattiesburg, and for years after Evers’s assassination Dahmer was the chief advocate for voting rights in a county where Black registration was shamelessly suppressed. This put Dahmer in the crosshairs of the White Knights, with headquarters in nearby Laurel. Already known as one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South, the group carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A year before, Tom Landrum, a young, unassuming member of a family with deep Mississippi roots, joined the Klan to become an FBI informant. He penetrated the White Knights’ secret circles, recording almost daily journal entries. He risked his life, and the safety of his young family, to chronicle extensively the clandestine activities of the Klan. Veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie draws on his exclusive access to Landrum’s journals to re-create these events—the conversations, the incendiary nighttime meetings, the plans leading up to Dahmer’s murder and its erratic execution—culminating in the conviction and imprisonment of many of those responsible for Dahmer’s death. In riveting detail, When Evil Lived in Laurel plumbs the nature and harrowing consequences of institutional racism, and brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South—one with urgent implications for today. |
| jones county mississippi history: Unruly Women Victoria E. Bynum, 2016-08-01 In this richly detailed and imaginatively researched study, Victoria Bynum investigates unruly women in central North Carolina before and during the Civil War. Analyzing the complex and interrelated impact of gender, race, class, and region on the lives of black and white women, she shows how their diverse experiences and behavior reflected and influenced the changing social order and political economy of the state and region. Her work expands our knowledge of black and white women by studying them outside the plantation setting. Bynum searched local and state court records, public documents, and manuscript collections to locate and document the lives of these otherwise ordinary, obscure women. Some appeared in court as abused, sometimes abusive, wives, as victims and sometimes perpetrators of violent assaults, or as participants in ilicit, interracial relationships. During the Civil War, women freqently were cited for theft, trespassing, or rioting, usually in an effort to gain goods made scarce by war. Some women were charged with harboring evaders or deserters of the Confederacy, an act that reflected their conviction that the Confederacy was destroying them. These politically powerless unruly women threatened to disrupt the underlying social structure of the Old South, which depended on the services and cooperation of all women. Bynum examines the effects of women's social and sexual behavior on the dominant society and shows the ways in which power flowed between private and public spheres. Whether wives or unmarried, enslaved or free, women were active agents of the society's ordering and dissolution. |
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| jones county mississippi history: Persuading John Bull Thomas E. Sebrell, 2014-07-30 This is the first scholarly analysis of The London American, the pro-Union propaganda journal published in London during the American Civil War, and the motives and troubles of its proprietor, John Adams Knight, a Northern American based in the British capital. The newspaper’s successes and failures in attempts to manipulate British public opinion during the war are compared with that of The Index, its rival Confederate propaganda weekly headquartered two doors down London’s Fleet Street. Persuading John Bull provides scholars and general readers alike a far greater understanding of the largely unknown Northern newspaper’s motivations and campaigns during the war, as well as an in-depth analysis of The Index which builds greatly on present historiographical discussions of the Southern journal. It also offers new insights into Britain’s roles in the conflict, Anglo-American relations, and mid-Victorian British political and social history. The book is not restricted to discussing the two propaganda machines as its focus—they are used to approach a greater analysis of British public opinion during the American Civil War—both journals were strongly associated with numerous key figures, societies (British and American), and events occurring on both sides of the Atlantic pertaining to the conflict. Although propaganda is only one source from which to tap, the effectiveness of the two lobbyist journals either directly or indirectly impacted other factors influencing Britain’s ultimate decision to remain neutral. This book reveals a fresh new cast of Union supporters in London, in addition to more Confederate sympathizers throughout Britain not previously discussed by scholars. The roles of these new figures, how and why they endorsed the Northern or Southern war effort, is analyzed in detail throughout the chapters, adding greatly to existing historiography. |
| jones county mississippi history: History of Jones County, Georgia Carolyn White Williams, 2020-06-05 By: Carolyn White Williams Pub. 1957, Reprint 2020, 1128 pages, Index, Hard Cover, 0-89308-872-2. Jones County was created in 1807 from Baldwin County. It is located in the center of the state. Originally know for its farm lands before the Civil War, it suffered destruction during the Civil War as Sherman's march to the sea passing through the county due to it cotton gin factor being retrofitted to produce pistols for the Confederate Army. This book is similar to other history books of the era with such topics being discussed: preformation of the county, formation of the county, Indians, early settlers, involvement in the War of 1812, education, religion/churches, towns, roads/trails, and considerable amout of discussion of its involvement in the Civil War. The author has included inscriptions from 40 cemeteries from around the county. She has also included the history of 22 ante-bellum homes located in Jones County and often times giving a biographical sketch of its owner: Clinton, Gordon-Bowen-Blount, Comer, Small, Newton, Peyton, Pitts, Cabaniss, Day-Barron, Barron, Glawson, Lancaster, Greene, White, Roberts, Moughon, Tomotavia, Johnson, and Lowther. But more importantly are the 80 plus genealogies of persons from the county. The reader will also discover an appendix filled with genealogical data: 1811 Tax Digest, 1820 Census, 1826 Land Lottery Draws, Marriage Bonds 1811-1890, Slave Deed Records 1791-1865, Index of Wills 1808-1890, Abstracts of Wills 1808-1810, List of Revolutionary Soldiers and Widows of Soldiers, Roster of Confederate Soldiers, WWI and WWII, Index to 1850 Census, and List of Garnd Jurors 1808-1810. |
| jones county mississippi history: Worse Than Slavery David M. Oshinsky, 1997-04-22 In this sensitively told tale of suffering, brutality, and inhumanity, Worse Than Slavery is an epic history of race and punishment in the deepest South from emancipation to the Civil Rights Era—and beyond. Immortalized in blues songs and movies like Cool Hand Luke and The Defiant Ones, Mississippi’s infamous Parchman State Penitentiary was, in the pre-civil rights south, synonymous with cruelty. Now, noted historian David Oshinsky gives us the true story of the notorious prison, drawing on police records, prison documents, folklore, blues songs, and oral history, from the days of cotton-field chain gangs to the 1960s, when Parchman was used to break the wills of civil rights workers who journeyed south on Freedom Rides. |
| jones county mississippi history: Free Labor Mark A. Lause, 2015-06-30 Monumental and revelatory, Free Labor explores labor activism throughout the country during a period of incredible diversity and fluidity: the American Civil War. Mark A. Lause describes how the working class radicalized during the war as a response to economic crisis, the political opportunity created by the election of Abraham Lincoln, and the ideology of free labor and abolition. His account moves from battlefield and picket line to the negotiating table, as he discusses how leaders and the rank-and-file alike adapted tactics and modes of operation to specific circumstances. His close attention to women and African Americans, meanwhile, dismantles notions of the working class as synonymous with whiteness and maleness. In addition, Lause offers a nuanced consideration of race's role in the politics of national labor organizations, in segregated industries in the border North and South, and in black resistance in the secessionist South, creatively reading self-emancipation as the largest general strike in U.S. history. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Black Hearts of Men John Stauffer, 2009-06-30 At a time when slavery was spreading and the country was steeped in racism, two white men and two black men overcame social barriers and mistrust to form a unique alliance that sought nothing less than the end of all evil. Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, John Stauffer braids together these men's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. Who could imagine that Gerrit Smith, one of the richest men in the country, would give away his wealth to the poor and ally himself with Frederick Douglass, an ex-slave? And why would James McCune Smith, the most educated black man in the country, link arms with John Brown, a bankrupt entrepreneur, along with the others? Distinguished by their interracial bonds, they shared a millennialist vision of a new world where everyone was free and equal. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing violence. Their revolutionary ethos bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane, black and white, masculine and feminine, and civilization and savagery that had long girded western culture. In so doing, it embraced a malleable and black-hearted self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation, in order to usher in a kingdom of God on earth. In tracing the rise and fall of their prophetic vision and alliance, Stauffer reveals how radical reform helped propel the nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace. |
| jones county mississippi history: Back to Basics for the Republican Party Michael Zak, 2003 Back to Basics for the Republican Party is a history of the GOP from the Republican point of view, explaining how the party of Emancipation and 40 acres and a mule developed through the Clinton presidency.See www.republicanbasics.com for more information. |
| jones county mississippi history: Religion of a Different Color W. Paul Reeve, 2015-01-30 Mormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this book, W. Paul Reeve explores the ways in which nineteenth century Protestant white America made outsiders out of an inside religious group. Much of what has been written on Mormon otherness centers upon economic, cultural, doctrinal, marital, and political differences that set Mormons apart from mainstream America. Reeve instead looks at how Protestants racialized Mormons, using physical differences in order to define Mormons as non-White to help justify their expulsion from Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. He analyzes and contextualizes the rhetoric on Mormons as a race with period discussions of the Native American, African American, Oriental, Turk/Islam, and European immigrant races. He also examines how Mormon male, female, and child bodies were characterized in these racialized debates. For instance, while Mormons argued that polygamy was ordained by God, and so created angelic, celestial, and elevated offspring, their opponents suggested that the children were degenerate and deformed. The Protestant white majority was convinced that Mormonism represented a racial-not merely religious-departure from the mainstream and spent considerable effort attempting to deny Mormon whiteness. Being white brought access to political, social, and economic power, all aspects of citizenship in which outsiders sought to limit or prevent Mormon participation. At least a part of those efforts came through persistent attacks on the collective Mormon body, ways in which outsiders suggested that Mormons were physically different, racially more similar to marginalized groups than they were white. Medical doctors went so far as to suggest that Mormon polygamy was spawning a new race. Mormons responded with aspirations toward whiteness. It was a back and forth struggle between what outsiders imagined and what Mormons believed. Mormons ultimately emerged triumphant, but not unscathed. Mormon leaders moved away from universalistic ideals toward segregated priesthood and temples, policies firmly in place by the early twentieth century. So successful were Mormons at claiming whiteness for themselves that by the time Mormon Mitt Romney sought the White House in 2012, he was labeled the whitest white man to run for office in recent memory. Ending with reflections on ongoing views of the Mormon body, this groundbreaking book brings together literatures on religion, whiteness studies, and nineteenth century racial history with the history of politics and migration. |
| jones county mississippi history: History of Jones County, Iowa Robert McClain Corbit, 1910 |
| jones county mississippi history: Right to Revolt Patricia Michelle Boyett, 2017-01-17 A revelation of the valorous nonviolent efforts wielded to motivate change in a moderate part of the segregated South |
| jones county mississippi history: The Cruel Sea Nicholas Monsarrat, 2011-12-30 The highly acclaimed 'Cruel Sea' is one of the all-time great naval and war thrillers. The film was a smash hit when released and it and the book continue to enjoy undiminished popularity. It covers the battle of the Atlantic and the people who fought it - their domestic triumphs, tragedies, worries and ambitions. |
| jones county mississippi history: Aruba Dave Holloway, R. Stephanie Good, Larry Garrison, 2006-05-08 One father's mission to find his daughter, 18 years before the chilling confession of Joran van der Sloot. I am a father who has no idea what has happened to his child. The questions run through my mind all day long. They keep me awake at night. Is she dead? Is she alive? Is she being held captive somewhere? Are they hurting her? Is she crying out for me? These are the impassioned words of Dave Holloway, father of Natalee Holloway, whose disappearance in Aruba sparked a media frenzy and an international scandal in 2005. This is the heart-wrenching story of his search, the most complete account of Natalee Holloway's disappearance in Aruba. During a then ongoing investigation, Holloway discloses: · behind-the-scenes details of the investigation · new revelations about the corruption of the Aruban law enforcement · and the countless trails leading to possible rape, murder, and even sexual slavery This is the first insider's account of one of this century’s most disturbing and mysterious true crime stories. Holloway relates the horror of personally searching through crack houses and trash dumps for Natalee––working alone, with authorities, even with psychics––while enduring the stonewalling of Aruban officials. Learn what really went on behind the headlines, and follow the hopeful heart of a father as he searches tirelessly for his precious daughter. |
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| jones county mississippi history: Next Medicine Walter Bortz, MD, 2011-01-03 Every year, the average American spends about $7,300 on medical expenses. The typical Canadian pays $2,700, the Briton only $2,000. And yet, according to the World Health Organization, our healthcare system, in terms of total quality, ranks thirty-eighth in the world, right between Costa Rica and Slovenia. Not only do 40 million Americans lack health insurance, but more than 200,000 die each year because of medical mistakes. Our average life expectancy is lower than Cuba's. In Next Medicine, Dr. Walter Bortz zeroes in on why the American medicine is spiraling toward disaster. A physician with fifty years of experience and a leading authority on aging, Bortz argues that the financial interests of biotech and drug companies have distorted the healthcare system. Thanks to them, medicine today is economically motivated to treat disease rather than to prevent it. Heart disease, for example, is widely treated with drug interventions and invasive surgery--both of which are extravagantly profitable for pharmaceutical giants and hospitals. Daily exercise and a healthy diet, on the other hand, can prevent heart disease, and can be obtained by patients essentially for free--but there's no money in that. The medical-industrial complex has a vested interest in keeping us sick, and until that changes medicine will fail to effectively address the leading cause of disability and mortality today: chronic diseases like diabetes that are largely preventable. Bortz proposes a medical system that emphasizes personal responsibility and provides incentives for healthy lifestyle choices, along with new training for medical professionals. Through a lively narrative full of personal anecdotes and jarring statistics, Bortz makes a powerful case for a radically new medical system--one that is based on rigorous science and loosens the strangle hold of corporate interests on American health. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Day Freedom Died Charles Lane, 2008-03-04 The untold story of the massacre of a Southern town’s freedmen and a white lawyer’s battle to bring the killers to justice: “Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where African Americans and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex–Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty African Americans who had occupied a courthouse. With skill and tenacity, the Washington Post’s Charles Lane transforms this nearly forgotten incident into a riveting historical saga. Seeking justice for the slain, one brave US attorney, James Beckwith, risked his life and career to investigate and punish the perpetrators—but they all went free. What followed was a series of courtroom dramas that culminated at the Supreme Court, where the justices’ verdict compromised the victories of the Civil War and left Southern blacks at the mercy of violent whites for generations. The Day Freedom Died is an electrifying piece of historical detective work that captures a gallery of characters from presidents to townspeople, and re-creates the bloody days of Reconstruction, when the often-brutal struggle for equality moved from the battlefield into communities across the nation. “Thoroughly readable, carefully documented.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Fascinating.” —New Orleans Times-Picayune “An electrifying piece of historical reporting.” —Tucson Citizen |
| jones county mississippi history: The Eyes of Willie McGee Alex Heard, 2011-05-10 A Washington Post Best Book of the Year In 1945, a young African-American man from Laurel, Mississippi, was sentenced to death for allegedly raping Willette Hawkins, a white housewife. The case was barely noticed until Bella Abzug, a young New York labor lawyer, was hired to oversee Willie McGee's appeal. Together with William Patterson, a dedicated black reformer, Abzug risked her life to plead the case. “Free Willie McGee” became an international rallying cry, with supporters flooding President Truman's White House and the U.S. Supreme Court with clemency pleas and famous Americans—including William Faulkner, Albert Einstein, and Norman Mailer—speaking out on McGee's behalf. By 1951, millions worldwide were convinced of McGee's innocence—even though there were serious questions about his claim that the truth involved a secret love affair. In this unforgettable story of justice in the Deep South, Mississippi native Alex Heard reexamines the lasting mysteries surrounding McGee's haunting case. |
| jones county mississippi history: Mississippi's Civil War Ben Wynne, 2006 This book examines Mississippi's Civil War experience. It begins with an introductory overview of the socio-political climate of the state during the1850s and ends with a treatment of Mississippi's post-war environment and the rise of Lost Cause mythology. In between, the work covers the pivotal events, issues, and personalities of the period. Wynne emphasizes the experiences of Mississippians?male and female, black and white?as they struggled to deal with the crisis. The political events leading to seces-sion, Mississippians? initial enthusiasm for war, voices of dissent, the disbursement of troops in and out of the state, the home front, freedom for the slave community, waning enthusiasm (both in the military and on the home front) as the war dragged on, defeat, and the ultimate struggle to turn defeat into a moral victory through Lost Cause mythology are also discussed. This book makes significant contributions to Civil War literature. |
| jones county mississippi history: Tishomingo County Cindy W. Nelson, RaNae S. Vaughn, Tishomingo County Historical and Genealogical Society, 2013 Presents photographs of the people, events, and places of Tishomingo County. |
| jones county mississippi history: Force and Freedom Kellie Carter Jackson, 2019-03-22 From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of moral suasion and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative efforts as the Fugitive Slave Act and the Supreme Court's 1857 ruling in the Dred Scott case effectively voided any rights black Americans held as enslaved or free people. As conditions deteriorated for African Americans, black abolitionist leaders embraced violence as the only means of shocking Northerners out of their apathy and instigating an antislavery war. In Force and Freedom, Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists. Through rousing public speeches, the bourgeoning black press, and the formation of militia groups, black abolitionist leaders mobilized their communities, compelled national action, and drew international attention. Drawing on the precedent and pathos of the American and Haitian Revolutions, African American abolitionists used violence as a political language and a means of provoking social change. Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, black abolitionist leaders accomplished what white nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War. Force and Freedom takes readers beyond the honorable politics of moral suasion and the romanticism of the Underground Railroad and into an exploration of the agonizing decisions, strategies, and actions of the black abolitionists who, though lacking an official political voice, were nevertheless responsible for instigating monumental social and political change. |
| jones county mississippi history: Blood Talk Susan Gillman, 2003-09-15 In this study, Susan Gillman explores America during the years from the end of Reconstruction to the First World War, and the rise during this period of a remarkable genre - the race melodrama - and the ways in which it converged with literary trends, popular history, and fringe movements. --Publisher. |
| jones county mississippi history: The Free State of Jones [Standard Large Print 16 Pt Edition] Victoria E. Bynum, 2012 Between late 1863 and mid - 1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Mississippi. Calling themselves the Knight Company after their captain, Newton Knight, they set up headquarters in the swamps of the Leaf River, where, legend has it, they declared the Free State of Jones. The story of the Jones County rebellion is well known among Mississippians, and debate over whether the county actually seceded from the state during the war has smoldered for more than a century. Adding further controversy to the legend is the story of Newt Knight's interracial romance with his wartime accomplice, Rachel, a slave. From their relationship there developed a mixed - race community that endured long after the Civil War had ended, and the ambiguous racial identity of their descendants confounded the rules of segregated Mississippi well into the twentieth century. Victoria Bynum traces the origins and legacy of the Jones County uprising from the American Revolution to the modern civil rights movement. In bridging the gap between the legendary and the real Free State of Jones, she shows how the legend - what was told, what was embellished, and what was left out - reveals a great deal about the South's transition from slavery to segregation; the racial, gender, and class politics of the period; and the contingent nature of history and memory. |
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The Journal of Mississippi History
Mississippi History Fall/Winter 2016. The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published quarterly by ... 3 Court order directing the sheriff of Adams County, Mississippi, to take Claiborne into custody, January 14, 1839, Claiborne Papers (Library of Congress).
Records of Southern Plantations from Emancipation to the Great …
Eli J. Capell Family Papers, 1840-1932 [1860-1932], Amite County, Mississippi 4 Reel 5 Eli J. Capell Family Papers cont 7 Stephen Duncan Family Papers, 1817-1877 [1863-1877], Adams County, Mississippi 8 Eggleston-Roach Papers, 1825-1903 [1860-1903], Warren County, Mississippi 8 James A. Gillespie Family Papers, 1776-1931 [1866-1931], Adams County,
2018 Community Health Needs Assessment - NCDHHS
during 2012-2016. About 22% of all Jones County residents have an income below the poverty level. Close to 14% (13.8%) had no insurance coverage during 2012-2016. The unemployment rate for Jones County was 4.5% in 2017. Morbidity and Mortality Top 10 Leading Causes of Death in Jones County, by Rank
Jones County History & Heritage, Inc. - static.secure.website
Jones County History & Heritage, Inc. Volume 4 Spring 2007 About the Newsletter This is newsletter #5 in the series on historic communities of Jones County, Georgia. The subject is the county seat of Gray, a proud participant in Georgia’s Better Hometown program. This issue will cover Gray’s history through 1920,
National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property ... - Mississippi
and 19 of Range 11 East, Mississippi Township #3. Chief Iuka had settled at this location because of the health benefits from the mineral waters. (100 Yenr History, p. 5) Early Caucas~an settlers also chose the springs site, some building houses after the original Tishomingo County was established in 1836. (State & County
Slaves and Slaveholders in the Choctaw Nation: 1830-1866
1 John D. W. Guice, Face to Face in Mississippi Territory, 1789-1817. In The Choctaw before Removal, ed. Carolyn Keller Reeves (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985), 158; Randolph B. Campbell, An Empire For Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas 1821-1865 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989),
Jones County Genealogical & Historical Organization
1924 in Jones County. Mississippi. Their marriage license indicates they were married by J. A. Meador. M. in the second judicial district of Jones County, Ruthie is the only daughter of William Jeptha Tisdale and Suzanne Eulaliah Smith Tisdale, Ruthie was born on Feb 16. 1905 in Jones County. Mississippi.
Do you know about - The Shoofly Magazine
Floating saloons on the Pearl River in Hancock County, Mississippi The Pearl River begins its 400-mile long journey in Neshoba County in east-central Mississippi and flows through the capital of Jackson where the Ross Barnett Dam and Reservoir provide water and recreational opportunities for the surrounding area. Closer to the coast, the river
County History - WordPress.com
Holt Collier from SOURCE MATERIAL FOR MISSISSIPPI HISTORY, Washington County, from microfilm; Compilation and Interview and Additional material; Historian, Lottie Armistead; Eunice Stockwell Prominent Negroes. Holt Collier -- Was born in Greenville in 1848, died in Greenville August 1st, 1936, and he was .
The Journal of Mississippi History
shaping Mississippi history during the planter-dominated culture of the time. Hamilton laid the blame for the state’s future poverty at the ... Petition of sundry citizens of Jefferson County in re. M. Hagins, n.d.; Petition of Hugue Dubro-ca, October 26, 1813; Petition of William Barland, December, 1814 (all the petitions are to the
Title 7: Education K-12 Part 193: Mississippi College- and Career ...
The Office of Secondary Education through the Mississippi Department of Education deeply appreciates the time and expertise given by the following individuals to the revision of the Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for the Social Studies 2018. Glenda Hull Alan Wheat Megan Alvarez Jackson County School District
Studies the Social Studies - Mississippi Department of Education
3 Post Office Box 771 Jackson, Mississippi 39205-0771 Office of Elementary Education and Reading Office of Secondary Education 601-359-2586 601-359-3461
historic name Jones County Courthouse and Confederate …
Jones County Courthouse at Ellisville Name of Property Jones County, Mississippi County and State 8. Statement of Significance Applicable National Register Criteria (Mark "x" in one or more boxes for the criteria qualifying the property for National Register listing.) IXl A Property is associated with events that have made
A Brief History of Fayette County - Fayette, Alabama
Fayette County was divided in half in 1967 and Jones County, which later became Sanford County and lastly Lamar County, was created. On December 8, 1880 the town of Fayetteville was incorporated into a municipality, Although
MISSISSIPPI HISTORY
A PUBLICATION OF THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY newsletter MISSISSIPPI HISTORY State Capitol Named National Landmark CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 At its quarterly board meeting in April, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History awarded grants totaling more than $74,000 to ten preservation projects
ORDINANCES - Laurel, Mississippi
The City of Laurel, County of Jones and State of Mississippi, having elected to adopt the commission form of government as provided for by Chapter 108, Laws of Mississippi 1908, is hereby authorized and empowered to establish the said commission form of government under
DIRECTORY OF STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS - Secretary of State of Mississippi
2022 MISSISSIPPI STATE & COUNTY ELECTED OFFICIALS 2022 DIRECTORY OF STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS Post Office Box 136 | Jackson, MS 39205-0136 | (601) 359-1350 | www.sos.ms.gov. ... Governor Reeves has continued to make history throughout his public service career. When elected in 2003 for his first public office, Governor
Alex Hodge Jones County Sheriff’s Office Mississippi
Jones County Sheriff’s Office Mississippi . Sheriff Alex Hodge was born March 10, 1969 in Columbus, Lowndes County Mississippi to Willis E. Hodge and Deborah Ainsworth Hodge. He received an education from the Jones County School District and graduated from Northeast Jones High School in 1987. Alex is married to Sharla Lott Hodge of
JONES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI J - osa.ms.gov
I appreciate the cooperation and courtesy extended by the officials and employees of Jones County throughout the audit. Thank you for working to move Mississippi forward by serving as a supervisor for Jones County. If I or this office can be of any further assistance, please contact me or Joe McKnight of my staff at (601) 576-2674.
A Demographic History of Slavery: Georgetown County, South …
Age and Sex Distribution, Slave Populations of Southern States, Georgetown County, South Carolina, Bolivar County, Mississippi, and Charleston: 1850 Males Age Southern 1 States No. ! Bolivar 2 County No. % Charleston 3 City No. % Georgetown 2 County No. % 0-4 5-9 10-14 15-19 20-24 25-29 30-34 35-39 40-44 45-49 50-54 55-59 60-64 65+ 267086 ...
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI NO. 2014-CT-01190 …
¶1. A Lafayette County jury awarded Ausbern Construction Company, Inc. (Ausbern) a verdict of $182,500 against Chickasaw County Engineer Edward Springer in his individual capacity for tortious interference with a road-construction contract. On appeal, the Mississippi Court of Appeals reversed the $182,500 judgment and rendered judgment in
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF MISSISSIPPI NO. 2022-CA-00196-SCT
of Jones County, Mississippi, Ryan was adjudicated E.R.L.’s father and, in a subsequent order, Jessica was awarded primary custody, and Ryan was given standard visitation and is required to pay child support. 2 Pam named Jessica, Ryan, Thomas, and unknown putative fathers in …
BRETT JONES v. STATE OF MISSISSIPPI - Equal Justice Initiative
in the supreme court of mississippi no. 2009-ct-02033-sct brett jones v. state of mississippi on writ of certiorari date of judgment: 11/19/2009 trial judge: hon. thomas j. gardner, iii court from which appealed: lee county ci rcuit court attorneys for appellant: sylvia s. owen thomas henry freeland, iv attorney for appellee: office of the ...
The 1963 Mississippi State University Basketball Controversy and …
playing athletic events against the University of Mississippi on the grounds that Ole Miss dis-criminated against blacks. Jackson Daily News, February 12, 1963, p. 11. I Robert W. Dubay, "Pigmentation and Pigskin: A Jones County Junior College Dilemma," Journal of Mississippi History, XLVI (February 1984), 43-50; and Los Angeles Times, October
IN THE MATTER OF THE EXTENSION OF THE BOUNDARIES OF THE …
petition to ratify and confirm the extension of its boundaries in the Chancery Court of Jones County, Mississippi. Honorable R. B. Reeves, Jr., senior status judge appointed to hear the case, issued a decision by letter dated January 28, 2000, to the parties that the HB 1730 Regular Session 1996, was constitutional, did not violate § 88 of the ...
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
JONES . v. MISSISSIPPI . CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MISSISSIPPI . No. 18–1259. Argued November 3, 2020—Decided April 22, 2021 . A Mississippi jury convicted petitioner Brett Jones of murder for killing his grandfather. Jones was 15 years old when he committed the crime. Under Mississippi law at the time, murder carried a ...
The Journal of Mississippi History
The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published quarterly by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North St., Jackson, ... 4 Byhalia is located on the western edge of Marshall County about fifteen miles from the county . seat Holly Springs with the two municipalities being connected by U.S. Highway 78 ...
Harrison County, Mississippi
Board of Supervisors Meeting Minutes February 7, 2022 this Order be APPROVED by the following vote: Aye: Supervisor Martin; Supervisor Powers; Supervisor Ladner; Supervisor Jones and Supervisor Rockco 5 - 19 22-0163 ORDER approving travel, hotel and registration for John Cotter, to attend IAAO 201 April 4, 2022 through April 8, 2022 in Starkville, Mississippi.
This is taken from the book, A History of Jones Creek Baptist …
Moses Westberry, the first pastor of Jones Creek Church, was born near Stateburg in the High Hills of Santee in South Carolina on March 2, 1772. He moved to Edgefield County and settled on Cuffytown Creek and before 1799 to the upper end of …
Population of the United States in 1860: Mississippi - Census.gov
Title: Population of the United States in 1860: Mississippi Author: U.S. Census Bureau Created Date: 10/22/2015 2:36:46 PM
Mississippi Soil Surveys - Mississippi State University
12 Aug 2008 · Jones 1913, 1986 Kemper 1999 County Publication date1 Leflore2 1959, Pending Lincoln 1912, 1963 Lowndes 1911, 1979 Madison 1917, 1984 Marion 1938, 1985 ... Press of the Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History. pp. 299-303. United States Department of Agriculture - Soil Conservation Service. 1981. Land Resource
Jones County - NCpedia
Home > Jones County Jones County [1] Average: 3 (23 votes) Jones County [2] JONES COUNTY GOVERNMENT: www.jonescountync.gov [3] COUNTY SEAT: Trenton FORMED: 1779 FORMED FROM: Craven LAND AREA: 470.71 square miles 2020 POPULATION ESTIMATE: 9,172 ... Annotated history of Jones County's formation:
MISSISSIPPI BAPTISTS THEN AND NOW - bmams.org
for this bit of history of our people down through the years. Vern D. Holifteld, Chairman Mississippi Baptist Commission on History and Archives The Mississippi Baptist Commission on History and Archives has planned for several years to print a book that would update the history of the Baptist Missionary Association of Mississippi. L.S. Walker,
The Journal of Mississippi History
The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published quarterly by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 200 North St., Jackson, ... Copiah County, Mississippi, population schedule, roll 646; page 253A; Enumeration District 026; …
The Journal of Mississippi History
Mississippi History Fall/Winter 2016. The Journal of Mississippi History (ISSN 0022-2771) is published quarterly by ... 3 Court order directing the sheriff of Adams County, Mississippi, to take Claiborne into custody, January 14, 1839, Claiborne Papers (Library of Congress).
GREAT JONES COUNTY FAIR ENTERTAINMENT 1956 TO CURRENT
great jones county fair entertainment 1956 to current 1956 – tex ritter – smiley barnett – ray anthony orchestra- chas pivake orchestra 1957 - don rogers – jeffery clay – sammy kay - candy candido 1958 – ted weens – homer & jethro – herb schriner – eddy peabody & teddy phillips – four preps 1959 – tommy sand & ben beri- edgar bergen & charlie mccarthy – alvin &
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
¶8. J&A filed a notice of appeal in the Jones County Circuit Court pursuant to Mississippi Code Annotated section 11-51-75 (Rev. 2019). II. The Jones County Project ¶9. Jones County published an advertisement for bids for an NRCS watershed protection project at West Jones High School. Pickering, who also served as the project engineer for
Family History Sources in Mississippi Resources
Mississippi history may be divided into four distinct jurisdictional periods: French Colonial (1699–1763), British Provincial (1763–79), Spanish Provincial (1779–98), and American Territorial and Statehood (1798- ... Contact information for county clerks is provided on the website. Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH ...
TRUE TALES OF OLD MADISON COUNTY - Huntsville History …
Times. Mr. Jones spent countless hours researching his material and presented the public with factual and highly entertaining data on the colorful facets of Madison County, Alabama, history. Of this history, Mr. Jones states*, "...somethingshould be done to acquaint Huntsville residents with the history of their area.
Negro Slave Insurrections in Mississippi, 1800-1865. - JSTOR
NEGRO SLAVE INSURRECTIONS IN MISSISSIPPI, 1800-1865 FOREWORD ... tion had taken place in some county, then the public was left to its own imagination as to whether the revolt suc-ceeded, failed, or actually took place. ... 76 JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY pated from Free Negroes (f. m. c.) as their total did not ex-ceed 519.7
2019 PRESIDENT’S REPORT - jcjc.edu
(Not pictured: Mr. Albert Short, Jones County; Mr. Steve Thrash, Jones County) Dr. Scott Dearman, Perry County Mrs. Carolyn Smith, ... Our rich history of success centers around growth in the life of ... for the State of Mississippi, was the keynote speaker at both the morning and afternoon ceremonies. The 42nd State
Compiled and Edited by Bob Franks - ItawambaHistory
EARLY DEEDS OF ITAWAMBA COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1836-1839 including A History of Early Itawamba County and Using Maps With Your Itawamba Deed Research Compiled and Edited by Bob Franks ... Chancery Court Clerk’s Office, Fulton, Mississippi. The Early History of Itawamba County and Deed Tutorial sections were written by Bob Franks .
Studies the Social Studies - Mississippi Department of Education
2 2018 Mississippi College- and Career-Readiness Standards for the Social Studies Carey M. Wright, Ed.D., State Superintendent of Education Kim S. Benton, Ed.D., Chief Academic Officer
FLOOD HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI - National Weather Service
FLOOD HISTORY OF MISSISSIPPI Mississippi River Floods of 1927 Dates: April and May 1927 Deaths: 246 flood-related deaths in several states Impacts: Over 700,000 homeless in several states Flood inundations: 27,000 square miles in several states Costs: Property damage was estimated at over $400 million dollars (1927 dollars), equivalent to over $5 billion dollars today …
LOCAL RULES FOR EIGHTEENTH CIRCUIT COURT DISTRICT OF ... - Mississippi
docket, Circuit Court, Jones County, Mississippi. The defendant having been duly arraigned and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge preferred by grand jury indictment, and this case having been set for trial and/or motion hearing on _____. The defendant herein agrees to make regular and timely contacts by telephone or visits to ...
Journal of Mississippi History - University of Southern Mississippi
Journal of Mississippi History Volume 81 Number 1 Article 3 2019 Edmund Favor Noel (1908-1912) and the Rise of James K. ... County, they recorded the four-year-old Noel as Edmund. However, ten years later, Noel was ... Noel to Mr. R. L. Jones, February 15, 1909, Series 861, Box 1211, Folder 220, Noel Files, ...
AUGUST 1 , 202 - jonescounty.com
P.O. Box 527, Laurel, Mississippi 39441 O: (601) 649-3031 F: (601) 428-2047 www.jonescounty.com The Community Development Foundation of Jones County is an approved 501 (c) 3, non-profit charitable corporation. The program is sponsored in part by CSpire.
Administrative Procedures For Mississippi Electronic Courts
Section § 9‐1‐53 of the Mississippi Code authorizes electronic filing in conjunction with Rule 5 of the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 1.16 of the Uniform Rules of Circuit and County Court Practice, and Rule 1.13 of the Uniform Chancery Court …
MISSISSIPPI SMALL ESTATE AFFIDAVIT - Executor
in County, Mississippi, at the age of years. A copy of the death certificate of the decedent is attached hereto as Exhibit “A”. 2.. The decedent's place of residence immediately before his death was (address), Mississippi, (Zip), which was the place where the principal part of his or her property was situated. 3.
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE NORTHERN …
Doc. #33 at 4. “Montfort B. Jones and Mrs. Allie Brown Jones were native citizens of Mississippi. Mrs. Jones … grew up in Sallis, Attala county, Mississippi. Mr. Jones was born … in Tchula, Holmes county, Mississippi …. Mr. and Mrs. Brown married on January 19, 1910. … [B]oth [are deceased and] buried in Attala county, Mississippi ...
