The Mississippi Encyclopedia

Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas, Ted Ownby, Charles Reagan Wilson, Ann J. Abadie, Odie Lindsey, James G. Thomas Jr.

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781496811578
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present.The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.

INDEX

The index that appeared in the print version of this title was intentionally removed from the eBook. Please use the search function on your eReading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

Abbott, Dorothy

ABC News

Abdul-Rauf, Mahmoud (Chris Jackson)

Aberdeen

Abe’s Barbecue (Clarksdale)

abolitionism; opposition to

abortion

Abzug, Bella

academies, private antebellum

accent

Ace Records

Ackerman

Ackia, Battle of

ACLU. See American Civil Liberties Union

ACLU v. Fordice

acorns

acting; Andrews, Dana; Best, Willie; Crowley, Mart; Ford, Ruth; Freeman, Morgan; Henson, Jim; Herrera, Anthony; Jones, James Earl; Ladd, Diane (Rose Diane Ladner); Maxwell, John C.; McRaney, Gerald; Mobley, Mary Ann; Notaro, Tig; Nye, Carrie; Posey, Parker; Presley, Elvis; Richards, Beah; Semon, Larry; Stevens, Stella; Ward, Sela; Winfrey, Oprah; Young, Billie Jean. See also theater

Adair, James

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Adams, Mary Robin (Miriam Chamani)

Adams, Moses

Adams, Olive Arnold

Adams, Robert Parker

Adams, Victoria Gray

Adams, William Wirt

Adams County. See also Natchez; Natchez District

Advantage Mississippi initiative

Aetna Insurance Co. v. Robertson (1922)

Affordable Care Act

AFL (American Federation of Labor)

AFL-CIO. See also CIO

African American domestic workers

African American entrepreneurship. See under businesses and entrepreneurs

African American landowners

African American physicians. See under medicine and public health

African American quilters. See quilting

African Americans, activism and organization by and for. See agricultural cooperatives; civil rights movement; desegregation; emancipation; parallel institutions; Reconstruction

African Americans, oppression and exploitation of. See disfranchisement; labor; lynching and mob violence; massive resistance; racism; segregation; sharecropping; slavery

African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME Church)

Afro-American Hospital (Yazoo City)

Afroman

AG (Assemblies of God)

Agnew, Samuel

Agricultural Adjustment Administration; administrators of; impact on sharecropping

Agricultural and Industrial Board

Agricultural Bank (Natchez)

agricultural cooperatives; in dairy industry; Delta and Providence Cooperative Farms; Farmers’ Alliance and Colored Farmers’ Alliance; Farmers Union; Freedom City; Mileston Cooperative Association

agricultural extension; boll weevil and; 4-H Clubs; in Oktibbeha County; television and. See also home demonstration

agricultural high schools

agricultural prices. See cotton: economics of

Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service

agriculture; African American landownership and; in Black Belt/Prairie; Chickasaw; during Civil War; convicts used in; crop dusting; crop liens; crop prices (see cotton: economics of); in Delta; in each county (see names of counties); environment and; Grange; Great Depression’s impact on; kudzu and; labor politics of (see labor: agricultural); Mississippi State University and; pests and (see pests and pesticides); photographic mapmaking for; politicians and; prehistoric; sharecropping and (see sharecropping); slavery and; soils and; subsidies for, (see also Agricultural Adjustment Administration); transportation and. See also foodways; and names of crops

agriculture, mechanization of; cotton gins; in Delta; extinct and endangered species and; mechanical cotton pickers; mules and

Agriculture Act of 1956

Agriculture Act of 1962

Agriculture and Commerce, Commissioner of

Ahavath Rayim

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Ainsworth, John Ed

airplanes. See aviation

air quality

Alabama-Mississippi Singing Convention

Alabama-Mississippi state line

Alabama Power Company

Alaux, Alexander

Albertson, Chris

alcohol, prohibition of. See Prohibition

alcohol abuse

Alcorn, James L.; Alcorn State University and; James D. Lynch and; Ku Klux Klan and; violence of 1875 and

Alcorn County. See also Corinth; Northeastern Hills

Alcorn County Electric Power Association

Alcorn State University; athletics at (see names of sports); during civil rights movement; founding of

Alexander, C. H.

Alexander, Margaret Walker

Alexander v. Holmes County Board of Education (1969)

Alexander v. State ex rel. Allain (1983)

Algebra Project

Alibamon Mingo

Allain, William A.

Allen, James

Allen, Jeffrey

Allen, Jere

Allen, Joe Ann

Allen, Louis

Allen, Ora Denise. See LaSalle, Denise

Allen, Richard

Allen v. State Board of Elections (1969)

alligator, American

Allison, Mose

Almeda Gardner Industrial School (Moorhead)

Alpha Kappa Alpha (AKA)

Altig,...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• Y
• Z
• Contributors
• Index