Historical place archive

Mississippi in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Mississippi in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

11 records6 event labels7 people1830โ€“1965

Historical events in Mississippi

1830

27 September 1830
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Greenwood LeFlore ยท Government of USA

Signs the removal treaty on behalf of a section of the Choctaw leadership.

27 September 1830
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
John Coffee ยท Government of USA

Signs the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek as a United States commissioner.

27 September 1830
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
John Henry Eaton ยท Government of USA

Signs the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek for the United States.

27 September 1830
Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek
Mushulatubbee ยท Government of USA

Signs the treaty that cedes Choctaw lands east of the Mississippi.

1861

1 September 1861
Secession of Mississippi
Abraham Lincoln ยท Civil War

Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union

1 September 1861
Slave State Secession
Abraham Lincoln ยท Republican Party Government

Mississippi becomes the second slave state to secede from the Union

1963

March 1963
Assassination of Edwin Walker
Edwin Walker ยท Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Investigated by the FBI for inciting a race riot

March 1963
Assassination of Edwin Walker
Edwin Walker ยท Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Investigated by the FBI for inciting a race riot

March 1963
FBI
Edwin Walker ยท Assassination of Kennedy, JF

Investigated by the FBI for inciting a race riot

March 1963
FBI
Edwin Walker ยท Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Investigated by the FBI for inciting a race riot

1965

8 March 1965
Bloody Sunday
Fannie Lou Hamer ยท Civil Rights

Voting rights campaigners connect Selma to wider disenfranchisement.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match United States of America and Mississippi. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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