#mississippi

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a rite of passage. ↗

— Danny Glover

#almost #becoming #education #freedom #graduated

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.' ↗

— Harold H. Greene

#attorney general #call #clock #evening #general

While the level of support we can each provide certainly varies, it is very important at this time that we all do what we can to help our neighbors - not only our immediate neighbors here in Alabama, but those further away in Mississippi and Louisiana. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#away #certainly #each #further #help

I'm concerned about the cost, just like everybody else. There's no question that we have an obligation to help the people of Louisiana and Mississippi to rebuild. ↗

— Saxby Chambliss

#concerned #cost #else #everybody #everybody else

I didn't come east of the Mississippi for the first time in my life until I was 26 years of age, but I knew. I read magazines, I listened to radio, I watched television. I knew there was something out there, and I wanted a part of it. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#come #east #first #first time #i

The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific. ↗

— John Moody

#absolute necessity #act #after #became #congress

Yet, in 1850 nearly all the railroads in the United States lay east of the Mississippi River, and all of them, even when they were physically mere extensions of one another, were separately owned and separately managed. ↗

— John Moody

#east #even #extensions #lay #managed

I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience. ↗

— Elliott Smith

#float #i #mississippi #parades #rode

Had it not been for James Meredith, who was willing to risk his life, the University of Mississippi would still be all white. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

#had #his #james #life #meredith

They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them. ↗

— Ike Turner

#artists #come #different #down #find