NEW-ORLEANS, Tuesday, Aug. 22. The Times, of this city, has a special dispatch from Jackson, dated yesterday, giving the proceedings of the Mississippi Convention: An ordinance was passed ...

Col, CALDWELL, of the Third Iowa regiment, bringer the following information from Little Rock concerning the reconstruction movement in Arkansas: The State Convention, which assembled on the 8th ...

Mississippi would elect one other Reconstruction-era African American senator, Blanche Bruce, who served a full term, in 1875. Yet, that marked the end of full black participation in Mississippi ...

And thus Reconstruction ended, but not because it failed. The official Mississippi history textbook used in the ninth grade across the state in the 1960s flatly declared Reconstruction a period of ...

Since Reconstruction in Mississippi — the state with the highest percentage population of African-Americans — there has not been a single black statewide office holder. Thompson says the ...

the first black man elected mayor in the state since Reconstruction, became the first African American to run for statewide office in Mississippi since Reconstruction. Evers, then mayor of ...

Speed agreed immediately, and in turn recommended the charrette to Jim Barksdale, the Mississippi native and former Netscape CEO whom Barbour tapped to oversee the state’s reconstruction effort.

Mississippi has the highest percentage of Black residents in the country at nearly 39%. White Republicans have long had total control over state government due to an array of voter suppression ...

After the Civil War, Black men began gaining political power in Mississippi in the era of Reconstruction. During that time, Mississippi's legislature appointed the nation's first and second Black ...

While no African-American has been elected to a statewide office since Reconstruction, DuPree says Mississippi has been making progress when it comes to race — it's the state with the most black ...