Mississippi
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Music History
Mississippi has been historically significant in the development of the blues, especially the Delta region. Mississippi blues greats include: Bo Carter, Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Muddy Waters, Skip James, Bukka White, Tommy Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie Brown, Big Joe Williams, Willie Dixon, Howlin' Wolf, Albert King, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Sonny Boy Williamson II, Big Bill Broonzy, Jimmy Rogers, Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, Otis Spann, and B. B. King.
Jimmie Rodgers, a white guitarist/singer/songwriter, known as the "Godfather of Country," also played a significant role in the development of the blues. He and Chester Arthur Burnett were friends and admirers of each other's music. Rodgers was supposed to have given Burnett his nickname of Howlin' Wolf. This friendship and respect is an important example of Mississippi's musical legacy. While the state has had a reputation for being the most racist in America, it also played a significant role in the integration of American music. Its musicians created a creolization by combining musical traditions from Africa with the musical traditions of white Southerners, a tradition largely rooted in Celtic music.
The Mississippi Blues Trail, now being implemented, has dedicated markers for historic sites, such as Clarksdale's Riverside Hotel, where Bessie Smith died after her auto accident on Highway 61. The Riverside Hotel is just one of many historical blues sites in Clarksdale. Located in Clarksdale, the Delta Blues Museum is visited by people from all over the world. Close by are Ground Zero and Madidi, a blues club and restaurants co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman.
Mississippi has been fundamental to the development of American music has a whole. Elvis Presley was a native of Tupelo, Mississippi. While its origins were based more in Tennessee than Mississippi, country music had its first superstar in Jimmie Rodgers, a native of Meridian. From the famous alternative rock band 3 Doors Down to famous gulf and western singer Jimmy Buffett to famous opera star Leontyne Price, Mississippi has had a long and deep music history.
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Professional sports
- Biloxi is home to one of two Mississippi-based professional ice hockey teams, the Mississippi Sea Wolves. The Sea Wolves are a minor league team based at the Mississippi Coast Coliseum. The ECHL's 1998-1999 Kelly Cup Champions return to the ice for the 2007-2008 season after a two-year hiatus due to Hurricane Katrina damage in 2005 at the Coliseum.
- Southaven, Mississippi hosts the Mississippi RiverKings of the CHL, who changed their name from the Memphis Riverkings after an online fan vote to select a new team name.
- Pearl, Mississippi is the home of the Mississippi Braves. The Braves are a AA minor league affiliate of the Atlanta Braves. They play in the Southern League.
- Tupelo, Mississippi hosts the Mississippi Mudcats of the American Indoor Football Association.
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Famous Mississippians
Mississippi has produced a number of notable and famous individuals, especially in the realm of music and literature. Among the most notable are:
- Actors: Jim Henson, Oprah Winfrey, Morgan Freeman, James Earl Jones, Gerald McRaney, Parker Posey, and Sela Ward
- Athletes: Archie Manning, Brett Favre, Cool Papa Bell, Jerry Rice, Walter Payton, Deuce McAllister, and Steve McNair
- Authors: William Faulkner, John Grisham, Thomas Harris, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams and Richard Wright
- Musicians: B.B. King, Elvis Presley, Jimmie Rodgers, Bo Diddley, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Buffett, Faith Hill, 3 Doors Down, LeAnn Rimes and Brandy.
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Trivia and modern culture related
Children in the United States and Canada often count "One-Mississippi, two-Mississippi" during informal games such as hide and seek to approximate counting by seconds.
The first bottling of Coca-Cola occurred in Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the Biedenharn Candy Company in 1891. Root beer was invented in Biloxi in 1898 by Edward Adolf Barq, the namesake of Barq's Root Beer.
The Teddy bear gets its name from President Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt, because of a 1902 hunting trip to Sharkey County, Mississippi, in which he refused to shoot a captured bear.
In 1936 Dr. Leslie Rush, of Rush Hospital in Meridian, Mississippi performed the first bone pinning in the United States. This led to the development of the "Rush Pin", which is still in use.
Burnita Shelton Matthews from near Hazlehurst, Mississippi was the first woman appointed as a judge of a U.S. district court. She was appointed by Harry S. Truman on October 21, 1949.
Marilyn Monroe won the Miss Mississippi finals in the 1952 movie We're Not Married.
The first human lung transplant was performed in 1963 by Dr. James D. Hardy of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. In 1964, Dr. Hardy performed the first heart transplant, transplanting the heart of a chimpanzee into a human, with some success. The heart continued to beat for 90 minutes.
Former astronaut and administrator of NASA Richard H. Truly is from Fayette, Mississippi. Educated in Mississippi and Georgia, Truly was in charge of reforming NASA (1989 to 1992) in the era immediately following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. He was the first former astronaut to head NASA.
The world-renowned USA International Ballet Competition takes place in Jackson every four years.
The pledge to the State of Mississippi flag: "I salute the flag of Mississippi and the sovereign state for which it stands, with pride in her history and achievements and with confidence in her future under the guidance of Almighty God."
Several warships have been named USS Mississippi.
Starkville is home to the state's first and oldest independent film festival, The Magnolia Independent Film Festival, which takes place each February.
The comic book character Rogue, from the well-known series X-Men, is a Mississippian and self-declared southern belle. Her home town is located in the fictional county of Caldecott.
The University of Mississippi is hosting the first United States Presidential Election debate of 2008 on September 26.[54]
Every year during the last week of July, The NBHA (National Barrel Horse Association) holds the Youth World Barrel Racing competition in Jackson.
For the past seven years, the Sundancer Solar Race Team from Houston, MS, has won first place in the Open Division of the Dell-Winston School Solar Car Challenge.[55]
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References
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- ^ Aquaculture: Catfish
- ^ David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class.New York: Verso, 1999, p.146
- ^ John Otto Solomon,The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999, pp.10-11
- ^ The New York Times, The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board: Physical development of a levee system, accessed 11/13/2007
- ^ John Otto Solomon,The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999, p.50
- ^ John Otto Solomon,The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999, p.70
- ^ Prentice, Guy (2003). Pushmataha, Choctaw Indian Chief (HTML). Southeast Chronicles. Retrieved on 2008-02-11.
- ^ http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/php/state.php Historical Census Browser
- ^ W.E.B. DuBois,Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1935; reprint New York: The Free Press, 1998, p.437
- ^ John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000
- ^ John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000
- ^ Stephen Edward Cresswell, Rednecks, Redeemers, and Race: Mississippi after Reconstruction, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2006, p.124
- ^ John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000
- ^ Historical Census Browser, 1960 US Census, University of Virginia, accessed 13 Mar 2008
- ^ Joseph Crespino, Mississippi as Metaphor: State, Region and Nation in Historical Imagination, Southern Spaces, 23 Oct 1996, accessed 15 Mar 2008
- ^ Michael Schenkler, Memories of Queens College and an American Tragedy, Queens Press, 18 Oct 2002, accessed 15 Mar 2008
- ^ Gilbert M. Gaul and Dan Morgan, "A Slow Demise in the Delta: US Farm Subsidies Favor Big Over Small and White Over Blacks", The Washington Post, accessed 29 Mar 2008
- ^ Les Christie (August 30, 2007). The Richest (and Poorest) Places in the U.S.. CNNMoney.com. Retrieved on 2007-09-22.
- ^ Kappler, Charles (1904). INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES Vol. II, Treaties (HTML). Government Printing Office. Retrieved on 2008-04-16.
- ^ Baird, David [1973]. "The Choctaws Meet the Americans, 1783 to 1843", The Choctaw People. United States: Indian Tribal Series, 36. Library of Congress 73-80708.
- ^ [www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/asianamerican/vivian-wong.html, Vivian Wu Wong,Magazine of History, "Somewhere between White and Black: The Chinese in Mississippi", v10, n4, pp33-36, Summer 1996, accessed 11/15/2007]
- ^ Thomas M. Maugh (2007-08-28). Mississippi heads list of fattest states. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-08-28.
- ^ Gay Demographics 2000 Census Data
- ^ Census.gov: Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households 2000
- ^ Census.gov: Married-Couple and Unmarried-Partner Households 2000
- ^ Facts and Findings from The Gay and Lesbian Atlas
- ^ Facts and Findings from The Gay and Lesbian Atlas
- ^ "Amendment banning gay marriage passes", USA Today, 2004-11-02. Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
- ^ "Voters pass all 11 bans on gay marriage", AP via MSNBC, 2004-11-03. Retrieved on 2007-12-07.
- ^ Generosity Index
- ^ "Mississippi Almanac Entry"., The New York Times Travel Almanac (2004)
- ^ [ttp://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/php/sate.php Historical Census Browser]
- ^ W.E.B. DuBois,Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1935; reprint New York: The Free Press, 1998, p.432
- ^ Du Bois, Ibid., p.437
- ^ Du Bois, Ibid., p.432 and 434
- ^ John C. Willis, Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2000
- ^ John Otto Solomon,The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999, pp.10-11, 42-43, 50-51, and 70
- ^ V.S. Naipaul, A Turn in the South. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989
- ^ John Otto Solomon,The Final Frontiers, 1880-1930: Settling the Southern Bottomlands. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999, pp.10-11, 42-43, 50-51, and 70
- ^ The New York Times, The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee Board: Physical development of a levee system, accessed 11/13/2007
- ^ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District: Arkabutla Lake
- ^ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District: Grenada Lake
- ^ Ross Barnett Reservoir official web site
- ^ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Vicksburg District: Sardis Lake
- ^ Council of Federated Organizations, accessed 13 Mar 2008
- ^ Presidential General Election Graph Comparison - Mississippi. www.uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved on 2007-12-01.
- ^ The Clarion-Ledger: University lands first of 3 debates; Accessed November 20, 2007
- ^ Proposed New Ordinances, Oxford, Mississippi; note section 5-23 paragraph (b), which states in part, "It shall be unlawful in the City of Oxford, Mississippi, for any owner, proprietor, manager or employee of any establishment which has a permit or privilege license authorizing the sale of light wine or beer at retail to... Sell, give or dispense or permit to be consumed any light wine or beer which has been refrigerated."
- ^ NORML State Guide to Marijuana Laws: Mississippi, accessed 20 Mar 2008
- ^ Mississippi Profile, accessed 30 May 2008
- ^ James D. Anderson,The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1988, pp.160-161
- ^ "Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’"., The New York Times (2007)
- ^ 2008 Presidential Debate | The University of Mississippi - Official Home Page
- ^ Mississippi, Believe It!
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