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'''Mississippi''' is a state in the southern United States.
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'''Mississippi''' is a state in southeast [[United States of America|U.S.]] on the [[Gulf of Mexico]].  The capital city is [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]].  Mississippi joined the union in 1817 and was one of the eleven states that rebelled during the [[American Civil War|civil war]] (1861-1865).


==Bibliography==
As one of the top cotton-producing states in the U.S., Mississippi also has the dubious distinction of having had more [[Lynching|lynchings]] in the decades after the [[American Civil War]] than any other U.S. stateMost victims were black (539 of a total of 581), reflecting the large population of former African American slaves living in the state and their difficulty in assimilating into society after being freed from slavery.
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=7974959 Krane, Dale and Stephen D. Shaffer. ''Mississippi Government & Politics: Modernizers versus Traditionalists'' (1992)]
=== History===
* Busbee, Westley F. ''Mississippi: A History'' (2005), good survey
* Gonzales, Edmond, ed. ''A Mississippi Reader: Selected Articles from the Journal of Mississippi History'' (1980)
* Loewen, James W. and Charles Sallis, eds. ''Mississippi: Conflict and Change'' (1974)
* McLemore, Richard, ed. ''A History of Mississippi'' 2 vols. (1973)
* Skates, John Ray. ''Mississippi: A Bicentennial History'' (1979)
* Swain, Martha H. ed. ''Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives'' (2003). 17 short biographies


====Specialized studies====
==See also==
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=2993825 Ballard, Michael B. ''Civil War Mississippi: A Guide'' (2000)]
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* Crespino, Joseph. ''In Search of Another Country: Mississippi and the Conservative Counterrevolution'' (Princeton University Press; 2007, 360 pages). Examines the conservative backlash among white Mississippians after the state's leaders strategically accommodated themselves to federal and civil-rights demands
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=80962695 Cresswell, Stephen. ''Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902'' (1995)]
*  Dittmer, John. ''Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi'' (1994)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=9021413 Garner, James Wilford. ''Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1901)] reflects [[Dunning School]]
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=61592900 Harris, William C. ''The Day of the Carpetbagger: Republican Reconstruction in Mississippi'' (1979)]
* Key, V.O. ''Southern Politics in State and Nation'' (1949), has famous chapter on Mississippi, pp 229-53.
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=10553634 Kirwan, Albert D. ''Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics: 1876-1925'' (1965)]
* Lesseig, Corey T. “ ‘Out of the Mud’: The Good Roads Crusade and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Mississippi.” Journal of Mississippi History 60 (Spring 1998): 51–72. (not online)
* McLemore, Nannie Pitts. "James K. Vardaman, a Mississippi Progressive," ''Journal of Mississippi History'' 29 (1967): 1-11
* McMillen, Neil R. ''Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow'' (1989)
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=103663188 Olsen, Christopher J. ''Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860'' (2000)]
* Osborn,  George Coleman. ''James Kimble Vardaman: Southern Commoner'' (1981).
* [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=52694010 Peirce, Neal R. ''The Deep South States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Seven Deep South States'' (1974)] see chapter 4 on Mississippi in 1970s
* Ownby, Ted. ''American Dreams in Mississippi: Consumers, Poverty & Culture, 1830-1998 (1998) [http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=101542898 online edition]
* Silver, James W. ''Mississippi: The Closed Society'' (1963)
* Smith,  Lewis H. and Robert S. Herren, "Mississippi" in Richard P. Nathan, Fred C. Doolittle, eds. ''Reagan and the States'' (1987), pp. 208-30.
* Sydnor, Charles S. ''Slavery in Mississippi.'' (1933).
* Wayne, Michael. ''The Reshaping of Plantation Society: The Natchez District, 1860–1880'' (1983)
* [http://eclectic.ss.uci.edu/~drwhite/pub/NatchezPeople.pdf White, Douglas R., George P. Murdock, Richard Scaglion. Natchez Class and Rank Reconsidered. ''Ethnology'' 10:369- 388. {1971}] study of the kingdom of the Natchez people before the French-Indian wars of the 1720s.
===Local and regional histories===
*  Bolton, Charles C. ''Poor Whites of the Antebellum South: Tenants and Laborers in Central North Carolina and Northeast Mississippi'' (1994)
*  Cobb, James C. ''The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity'' (1992)
*  Dollard, John. ''Caste and Class in a Southern Town'' (1957) sociological case study of race and class in 1930s
* James, Dorris Clayton. ''Ante-Bellum Natchez' (1968)
* Morris, Christopher. ''Becoming Southern: The Evolution of a Way of Life, Warren County and Vicksburg, Mississippi, 1770–1860'' (1995)
* Nelson, Lawrence J. "Welfare Capitalism on a Mississippi Plantation in the Great Depression." ''Journal of Southern History'' 50 (May 1984): 225–50. online at JSTOR
*  Owens, Harry P. ''Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta'' (1990).
* Polk, Noel. ''Natchez before 1830'' (1989)
* Willis, John C. ''Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta After the Civil War'' (2000)
 
===Primary sources===
* Abbott, Dorothy. ed. ''Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood and Youth''. Vol. 2: Nonfiction, (1986).
* Bond, Bradley G. ed. ''Mississippi: A Documentary History'' (2003)
* Moody, Anne. ''Coming of Age in Mississippi''. (1968) memoir of Black girlhood
*  Rosengarten, Theodore. ''All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw''  (1974) memoir of a Black Mississippian
 
==References==
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Mississippi is a state in southeast U.S. on the Gulf of Mexico. The capital city is Jackson. Mississippi joined the union in 1817 and was one of the eleven states that rebelled during the civil war (1861-1865).

As one of the top cotton-producing states in the U.S., Mississippi also has the dubious distinction of having had more lynchings in the decades after the American Civil War than any other U.S. state. Most victims were black (539 of a total of 581), reflecting the large population of former African American slaves living in the state and their difficulty in assimilating into society after being freed from slavery.

See also

U.S. States and Territories