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Ross Barnett

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Ross Robert Barnett (January 22, 1898November 6, 1987) was the Governor of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. [1]

77 relations: Africa, Alabama, All-white jury, American Civil War, American Legion, Bachelor of Laws, Baptists, Beatnik, Bidwell Adam, Byron De La Beckwith, Citizens' Councils, Civil and political rights, Civil rights movement, Clinton, Mississippi, Confederate States Army, Democratic Party (United States), Dixiecrat, Find a Grave, Flags of the Confederate States of America, Forest, Mississippi, George Wallace, Ghosts of Mississippi, Go, Mississippi, Hattiesburg American, Indiana, Jackson, Mississippi, James Meredith, James P. Coleman, Joe Wroten, Jury trial, Karl Wiesenburg, Kentucky Wildcats football, Leake County, Mississippi, List of Governors of Alabama, List of Governors of Mississippi, List of lieutenant governors of Mississippi, Loyola University Chicago, Lyndon B. Johnson, Maryland, Mayor, Medgar Evers, Minden Press-Herald, Minden, Louisiana, Mississippi College, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, Mississippi State University, Myrlie Evers-Williams, NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, Ole Miss Rebels football, ..., Ole Miss riot of 1962, Oxford, Mississippi, Paul B. Johnson Jr., Prentiss Walker, President of the United States, Racial segregation, Racial segregation in the United States, Republican Party (United States), Robert F. Kennedy, Ross Barnett Reservoir, Rubel Phillips, Smith County, Mississippi, Southern Baptist Convention, Southern Democrats, Standing Pine, Mississippi, Stanford Morse, The Clarion-Ledger, The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Ticket (election), Time (magazine), United States Army, United States Attorney General, United States presidential election, 1964, University of Mississippi, White supremacy, Wisconsin, World War I. Expand index (27 more) »

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the southeastern region of the United States.

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All-white jury

An all-white jury is a sworn body composed only of white people convened to render an impartial verdict in a legal proceeding.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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American Legion

The American Legion is a U.S. war veterans organization headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws (Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B. or B.L.) is an undergraduate degree in law (or a first professional degree in law, depending on jurisdiction) originating in England and offered in Japan and most common law jurisdictionsexcept the United States and Canadaas the degree which allows a person to become a lawyer.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Beatnik

Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s.

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Bidwell Adam

Cayton Bidwell Adam Sr., known as Bidwell Adam (January 12, 1894 – December 20, 1982) was an attorney from Gulfport, Mississippi, who served as his state's 21st lieutenant governor from 1928 to 1932 during the last administration of Governor Theodore Bilbo.

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Byron De La Beckwith

Byron De La Beckwith Sr. (November 9, 1920 – January 21, 2001) was an American white supremacist and Klansman from Greenwood, Mississippi, who assassinated civil rights leader Medgar Evers on June 12, 1963.

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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 and political rights

Civil and political rights are a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals.

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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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Clinton, Mississippi

Clinton is a city in Hinds County, Mississippi, United States.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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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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Dixiecrat

The States' Rights Democratic Party (usually called the Dixiecrats) was a short-lived segregationist political party in the United States.

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Find a Grave

Find A Grave is a website that allows the public to search and add to an online database of cemetery records.

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Flags of the Confederate States of America

Three successive designs served as the official national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Confederate States" or the "Confederacy") during its existence from 1861 to 1865.

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Forest, Mississippi

Forest is a city in Scott County, Mississippi.

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George Wallace

George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987.

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Ghosts of Mississippi

Ghosts of Mississippi is a 1996 American biographical courtroom drama film directed by Rob Reiner and starring Alec Baldwin, Whoopi Goldberg and James Woods.

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Go, Mississippi

"Go, Mississippi" (copyrighted as "Go, Mis-sis-sip-pi") is the official state song of Mississippi, adopted on May 17, 1962.

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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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Indiana

Indiana is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern and Great Lakes regions of North America.

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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 Meredith

James Howard Meredith (born June 25, 1933) is a Civil Rights Movement figure, writer, political adviser and Air Force veteran.

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James P. Coleman

James Plemon "J.P." Coleman (January 9, 1914 September 28, 1991) was a politician from the state of Mississippi.

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Joe Wroten

Joseph Eason Wroten (February 28, 1925 – March 17, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician in the state of Mississippi.

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Jury trial

A jury trial, or trial by jury, is a lawful proceeding in which a jury makes a decision or findings of fact.

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Karl Wiesenburg

Otto Karl Wiesenburg was a Mississippi statesmen, lawyer, public servant, and resident of Pascagoula, Mississippi.

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Kentucky Wildcats football

The Kentucky Wildcats football program represents the University of Kentucky in the sport of American football.

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Leake County, Mississippi

Leake County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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List of Governors of Alabama

The Governor of Alabama is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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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 lieutenant governors of Mississippi

This is a list of Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi.

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Loyola University Chicago

Loyola University Chicago (often referred to as Loyola or LUC) is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Lyndon B. Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and Washington, D.C. to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east.

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Mayor

In many countries, a mayor (from the Latin maior, meaning "bigger") is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town.

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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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Minden Press-Herald

The Minden Press-Herald is a Monday-Friday daily newspaper published in Minden, the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, by Specht Newspapers, Inc.

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Minden, Louisiana

Minden is a small city in and the parish seat of Webster Parish in northwestern Louisiana, United States.

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Mississippi College

Mississippi College is a Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi, just west of the capital city of Jackson.

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Mississippi State Penitentiary

Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a prison farm, the oldest prison, and the only maximum security prison for men in the 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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Mississippi State University

The Mississippi State University for Agriculture and Applied Science, commonly known as Mississippi State University (MSU), is a comprehensive land-grant and public research university located adjacent to the city of Starkville in an unincorporated area of Oktibbeha County, Mississippi.

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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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NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament

The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament, also informally known and branded as NCAA March Madness, is a single-elimination tournament played each spring in the United States, currently featuring 68 college basketball teams from the Division I level of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), to determine the national championship.

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Ole Miss Rebels football

The Ole Miss Rebels football program represents the University of Mississippi, also known as "Ole Miss".

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Ole Miss riot of 1962

The Ole Miss riot of 1962, or Battle of Oxford, was fought between Southern segregationists and federal and state forces beginning the night of September 30, 1962; segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, a black US military veteran, at the University of Mississippi (known affectionately as Ole Miss) at Oxford, Mississippi.

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Oxford, Mississippi

Oxford is a city in, and the county seat of, Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States.

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Paul B. Johnson Jr.

Paul Burney Johnson Jr. (January 23, 1916October 14, 1985) was an American attorney and Democratic politician from Mississippi, serving as governor from 1964 until January 1968.

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Prentiss Walker

Prentiss Lafayette Walker (August 23, 1917 – June 5, 1998) was an American farmer, businessman, and politician from Mississippi.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Racial segregation

Racial segregation is the separation of people into racial or other ethnic groups in daily life.

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Racial segregation in the United States

Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.

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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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Robert F. Kennedy

Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June 6, 1968) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator for New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.

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Ross Barnett Reservoir

The Ross Barnett Reservoir is an reservoir of the Pearl River between Madison and Rankin counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Rubel Phillips

Rubel Lex Phillips Sr. (March 29, 1925 – June 18, 2011) was an attorney, businessman, and politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi best known for his Republican gubernatorial campaigns waged in 1963 and 1967.

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Smith County, Mississippi

Smith County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Southern Baptist Convention

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is a Christian denomination based in the United States.

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Southern Democrats

Southern Democrats are members of the U.S. Democratic Party who reside in the South.

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Standing Pine, Mississippi

Standing Pine is a census-designated place (CDP) in Leake County, Mississippi.

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Stanford Morse

Stanford Everett Morse, Jr. (May 31, 1926 – February 28, 2002), was a lawyer from Gulfport, Mississippi, and a two-term Democratic member of the Mississippi State Senate.

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The Clarion-Ledger

The Clarion-Ledger is an American daily newspaper in Jackson, Mississippi.

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The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education

The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education is a former academic journal, now an online magazine, for African Americans working in academia in the United States.

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Ticket (election)

A ticket refers to a single election choice which fills more than one political office or seat.

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Time (magazine)

Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.

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United States Army

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

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United States Attorney General

The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per, concerned with all legal affairs, and is the chief lawyer of the United States government.

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United States presidential election, 1964

The United States presidential election of 1964, the 45th quadrennial American presidential election, was held on Tuesday, November 3, 1964.

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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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White supremacy

White supremacy or white supremacism is a racist ideology based upon the belief that white people are superior in many ways to people of other races and that therefore white people should be dominant over other races.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States, in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Barnett

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