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93 relations: African Americans, Architect, Associated Press, Baseball park, Bennie Thompson, Bob Moses (activist), Bond (finance), Boycott, Chokwe Antar Lumumba, Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, Citizens' Councils, Civil rights movement, Committee, Council of Federated Organizations, David Lee Jordan, Deep South, Democratic Party (United States), Documentary film, Donald Trump, DuSable Museum of African American History, Emancipation Proclamation, Emmett Till, Erik R. Fleming, Eternal flame, Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District, Financial endowment, Freedom Riders, Freedom Summer, Great Recession, Greenwood, Mississippi, Grenada, Mississippi, Haley Barbour, Hattiesburg American, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Hillman Terome Frazier, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Historically black colleges and universities, Interstate 55 in Mississippi, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi, James Chaney, Jim Crow laws, John Lewis (civil rights leader), Ku Klux Klan, List of Governors of Mississippi, List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi, Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Memphis, Tennessee, Meridian, Mississippi, ..., Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Legislature, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Missouri History Museum, Museum, Myrlie Evers-Williams, NAACP, Natchez, Mississippi, National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center, National Civil Rights Museum, National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Neoconservatism, Old Mississippi State Capitol, Paleozoic, Phil Bryant, Philadelphia, Mississippi, Philip Freelon, Reconstruction era, Republican Party (United States), Request for proposal, Smith–Wills Stadium, Special session, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Supreme Court of Mississippi, The Bond Buyer, The Clarion-Ledger, The Commercial Appeal, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Weekly Standard, Tougaloo College, U.S. state, United States Congress, United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of Mississippi, USA Today, Vernon Dahmer, William Winter (politician), Yazoo City, Mississippi, 16 mm film. Expand index (43 more) »
African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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Architect
An architect is a person who plans, designs, and reviews the construction of buildings.
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Associated Press
The Associated Press (AP) is a U.S.-based not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.
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Baseball park
A baseball park, also known as a ballpark or diamond, is a venue where baseball is played.
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Bennie Thompson
Bennie Gordon Thompson (born January 28, 1948) is the U.S. Representative for, serving since 1993, and the ranking member of the Committee on Homeland Security since 2011.
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Bob Moses (activist)
Robert Parris Moses (born January 31, 1935) is an American educator and civil rights activist, known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bond (finance)
In finance, a bond is an instrument of indebtedness of the bond issuer to the holders.
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Boycott
A boycott is an act of voluntary and intentional abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a person, organization, or country as an expression of protest, usually for moral, social, political, or environmental reasons.
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Chokwe Antar Lumumba
Chokwe Antar Lumumba (born March 29, 1983) is an American attorney, activist, politician and the current Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
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Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
The Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal, originally Cincinnati Union Terminal, is a former passenger railroad station in the Queensgate neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.
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Citizens' Councils
The Citizens' Councils (also referred to as White Citizens' Councils) were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Committee
A committee (or "commission") is a body of one or more persons that is subordinate to a deliberative assembly.
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Council of Federated Organizations
The Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) was a coalition of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations operating in Mississippi.
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David Lee Jordan
David Lee Jordan (born April 3, 1934) is an American politician who is currently a Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate, representing the 24th District since 1993.
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Deep South
The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.
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Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).
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Documentary film
A documentary film is a nonfictional motion picture intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education, or maintaining a historical record.
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Donald Trump
Donald John Trump (born June 14, 1946) is the 45th and current President of the United States, in office since January 20, 2017.
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DuSable Museum of African American History
The DuSable Museum of African American History is dedicated to the study and conservation of African American history, culture, and art.
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Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation, or Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863.
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Emmett Till
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, after a white woman said she was offended by him in her family's grocery store.
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Erik R. Fleming
Erik Robert Fleming (born February 2, 1965) is an American politician who was a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives representing the 72nd District (which includes parts of Hinds and Madison counties) from 1999 to 2008.
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Eternal flame
An eternal flame is a flame, lamp or torch that burns continuously for an indefinite period.
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Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District
Farish Street Neighborhood Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Jackson, Mississippi, known as a hub for Black-owned businesses up until the 1970s.
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Financial endowment
A financial endowment is a donation of money or property to a nonprofit organization for the ongoing support of that organization.
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Freedom Riders
Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional.
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Freedom Summer
Freedom Summer, or the Mississippi Summer Project, was a volunteer campaign in the United States launched in June 1964 to attempt to register as many African-American voters as possible in Mississippi.
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Great Recession
The Great Recession was a period of general economic decline observed in world markets during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
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Greenwood, Mississippi
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Grenada, Mississippi
Grenada is a city in Grenada County, Mississippi, United States.
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Haley Barbour
Haley Reeves Barbour (born October 22, 1947) is an American politician, lobbyist, author and member of the Republican Party who served as the 63rd Governor of Mississippi, from 2004 to 2012.
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Hattiesburg American
The Hattiesburg American is a U.S. newspaper based in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, that serves readers in Forrest, Lamar, and surrounding counties in south-central Mississippi.
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Hattiesburg, Mississippi
Hattiesburg is a city in the U.S. state of Mississippi, primarily in Forrest County (where it is the county seat) and extending west into Lamar County.
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Hillman Terome Frazier
Hillman Terome Frazier (born July 17, 1950 in Jackson) is an American politician who is a Democratic member of the Mississippi Senate; he has represented the 27th District since 1993.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels
Hiram Rhodes Revels (September 27, 1827Different sources list his birth year as either 1827 or 1822. – January 16, 1901) was a Republican U.S. Senator, minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME), and a college administrator.
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Historically black colleges and universities
Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community.
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Interstate 55 in Mississippi
Interstate 55 (I-55) is a major north–south Interstate Highway that serves the middle of the United States.
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Jackson State University
Jackson State University (Jackson State or JSU) is a public historically Black college and university ("HBCU") in Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
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Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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James Chaney
James Earl Chaney (May 30, 1943 – June 21, 1964), from Meridian, Mississippi, was one of three American civil rights workers who was murdered during Freedom Summer by members of the Ku Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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Jim Crow laws
Jim Crow laws were state and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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John Lewis (civil rights leader)
John Robert Lewis (born February 21, 1940) is an American politician and is a prominent civil rights leader.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.
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List of Governors of Mississippi
The Governor of Mississippi is the head of the executive branch of Mississippi's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.
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List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi
The post of Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, was begun in 1834 and was originally referred to as "President of Selectmen" before being changed to "Mayor".
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Medgar Evers
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist in Mississippi and the state's field secretary of the NAACP.
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Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.
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Meridian, Mississippi
Meridian is the sixth largest city in the state of Mississippi, United States.
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Mississippi
Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.
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Mississippi Delta
The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.
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Mississippi Legislature
The Mississippi Legislature is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission (also called the Sov-Com) was a state agency which operated from 1956 to 1977.
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Missouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum is a history museum located in St. Louis, Missouri in Forest Park showcasing Missouri history.
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Museum
A museum (plural musea or museums) is an institution that cares for (conserves) a collection of artifacts and other objects of artistic, cultural, historical, or scientific importance.
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Myrlie Evers-Williams
Myrlie Louise Evers–Williams (née Beasley; born March 17, 1933) is an American civil rights activist of the Civil Rights Movement and journalist who worked for over three decades to seek justice for the murder of her civil rights activist husband Medgar Evers in 1963.
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NAACP
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.
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Natchez, Mississippi
Natchez is the county seat and only city of Adams County, Mississippi, United States.
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National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
The National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center is a museum located in Wilberforce, Ohio, whose mission is to chronicle through its collections and programs the rich and varied experiences of African Americans from their African origins to the present.
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National Civil Rights Museum
The National Civil Rights Museum is a complex of museums and historic buildings in Memphis, Tennessee; its exhibits trace the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 17th century to the present.
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National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio based on the history of the Underground Railroad.
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Neoconservatism
Neoconservatism (commonly shortened to neocon when labelling its adherents) is a political movement born in the United States during the 1960s among liberal hawks who became disenchanted with the increasingly pacifist foreign policy of the Democratic Party, and the growing New Left and counterculture, in particular the Vietnam protests.
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Old Mississippi State Capitol
The Old Mississippi State Capitol, also known as Old Capitol Museum or Old State Capitol, served as the Mississippi statehouse from 1839 until 1903.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Phil Bryant
Dewey Phillip Bryant (born December 9, 1954) is an American politician serving as the 64th and current Governor of Mississippi since 2012.
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Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States.
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Philip Freelon
Philip Freelon (born March 26, 1952), a native of Philadelphia, United States is an African American architect.
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Reconstruction era
The Reconstruction era was the period from 1863 (the Presidential Proclamation of December 8, 1863) to 1877.
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Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.
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Request for proposal
A request for proposal (RFP) is a document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals.
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Smith–Wills Stadium
Smith–Wills Stadium is a 5,200 seat baseball stadium in Jackson, Mississippi.
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Special session
In a legislature, a special session (also extraordinary session) is a period when the body convenes outside of the normal legislative session.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Supreme Court of Mississippi
The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi.
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The Bond Buyer
The Bond Buyer is a century-old daily national trade newspaper based in New York City and focused on covering the municipal bond industry.
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The Clarion-Ledger
The Clarion-Ledger is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi.
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The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Seattle Times
The Seattle Times is a daily newspaper serving Seattle, Washington, United States.
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The Weekly Standard
The Weekly Standard is an American conservative opinion magazine published 48 times per year.
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Tougaloo College
Tougaloo College is a private, co-educational, historically black, liberal arts institution of higher education founded in 1869, in Madison County, north of Jackson, Mississippi, United States.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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United States Congress
The United States Congress is the bicameral legislature of the Federal government of the United States.
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United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (in case citations, S.D. Miss.) is a federal court in the Fifth Circuit with facilities in Gulfport, Hattiesburg, Natchez, Meridian, and Jackson.
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United States House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.
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United States Senate
The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.
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University of Mississippi
The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is an American public research university located in Oxford, Mississippi.
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USA Today
USA Today is an internationally distributed American daily, middle-market newspaper that serves as the flagship publication of its owner, the Gannett Company.
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Vernon Dahmer
Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer, Sr. (March 10, 1908 – January 10, 1966) was a leader with the Civil Rights Movement and president of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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William Winter (politician)
William Forrest Winter (born February 21, 1923) is an American attorney and politician; he served as the 58th Governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984.
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Yazoo City, Mississippi
Yazoo City is a U.S. city in Yazoo County, Mississippi.
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16 mm film
16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Civil_Rights_Museum
