In 1890, Mississippi called a convention to rewrite its constitution. That convention became the singular event that marked the state's transition from the nineteenth century to the twentieth and set the path fo
The state of Mississippi sits entirely on the Gulf Coastal Plain of North America. The state can be divided into five geographic regions: the Pine Belt, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Mississippi Alluvial Plain, the Pontotoc Ridge, the Black Prairie, and the Tennessee-Tombigbee Hills. The Gulf C...
In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its constitution an unusually high bar for getting elected governor or winning any other statewide office. The provision, which remains in force to this day, says can...
1)Itviolates the right to trial by jury granted by the Seventh Amendment of the United States Constitution and Section 31 of the Mississippi Constitution of 1890. 2) It violates Section 24 of the Mississippi Constitution, which provides for the right to a ...
Months after voters enshrined abortion rights in the state’s constitution, Missouri lawmakers are asking them to reconsider. Elliott Davis Jr.May 15, 2025 Missouri’s New Abortion Referendum Missing Hiker Found Safe After Surviving Weeks in Snowy California Mountains When the Verm...
As the act admitting Mississippi was passed five years after the act admitting Louisiana, Congress could not take away any portion of Louisiana and give it to Mississippi. Section 3, Art. IV of the Constitution does not permit the claims of any particular state to be prejudiced by the exercis...
In 1890, the governing class passed a constitution that cemented racial segregation while also establishing an economic structure that kept the black populace dependent. World War I through theCivil Rights Movement.World War I(1914-18) accelerated the end of Mississippi’s geographical and psychologica...
The 1870 law said Mississippi could not change its 1868 state constitution in a way to deprive any citizen of “school rights and privileges.” The state now has a constitution that was adopted in 1890 and has been amended several times. “From 1890 until the present day, Mississippi ...
blacks in the state voted and some held government positions. The white minority could not or would not accept a biracial society based on equality of opportunity. And in 1890, a new state constitution was written that took away voting rights from most black people. Segregation began within sc...
Mississippi's leaders are being accused of providing unequal education to black students. The Southern Poverty Law Center says the federal law that made Mississippi part of the United States again after the Civil War requires the state to provide equal a