It’s embarrassing enough that Mississippi didn’t ratify the thirteenth amendment, which outlawed slavery, until 1995. But whoever was supposed to notify the Archivist of the United States got ...

They brought with them slaves to do the backbreaking work of clearing the wild forest and subduing the Mississippi River with levees. As a result of the slaves' labor, the Delta became the richest ...

The local chapter of the NAACP in Jackson, Mississippi, gave posthumous honors to three civil rights trailblazers who ...

the migration of slaves to the lower South increased the slave population in Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida and Arkansas from 530,404 to 943,881. Even with this enormous ...

Natchez also is home to several historic churches, art galleries, restaurants and live music venues, plus the Magnolia Bluffs ...