Today's evidence, such as the fact that only three Southern states ( South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi ) still openly defy integration, would have astounded many of yesterday's Southerners into speechlessness.

But in looking at Faulkner against his background in Mississippi and the South, it is important not to lose the broader perspective.

Their entry will crack the total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate school, in Georgia -- and in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina as well.

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina took the lead by adopting an ordinance of secession ; by February 1, 1861, Florida, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas followed.

The President sanctioned similar actions in other states, including South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and Texas.

The Gulf Coast of the United States, sometimes referred to as the Gulf South, South Coast, or 3rd Coast, comprises the coasts of American states that are on the Gulf of Mexico, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and are known as the Gulf States.

By the mid 19th century, the South, The city of New Orleans in particular, being situated as a key to commerce on the Mississippi River and in the Gulf, had become the largest U. S. city not on the Atlantic seaboard and the fourth largest in the U. S. overall.

Hellbender species are present in a number of eastern states that stretch “ from southern New York to northern Georgia ,” including parts of Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, West Virginia, Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri, and even a small bit of Oklahoma and Kansas.

Not to be forgotten are the 56 % of the people who claim Irish ancestry who are Protestant and populate large areas of the southeastern United States especially in Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, West Virginia Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Arkansas and Virginia

* John Ford ( minister ) ( 1767 – 1826 ), American political and religious ( Methodist ) leader in South Carolina ( two terms in state legislature ) and Mississippi Territory

* 1861 – American Civil War: Georgia joins South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, and Alabama in seceding from the United States.

South Carolina adopted an ordinance of secession on December 20, 1860, and Mississippi did so on January 9, 1861.

The land purchased contained all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska ; parts of Minnesota that were west of the Mississippi River ; most of North Dakota ; most of South Dakota ; northeastern New Mexico ; northern Texas ; the portions of Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado east of the Continental Divide ; Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, including the city of New Orleans ; and small portions of land that would eventually become part of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Even more significant in terms of effect were private militias, paramilitary organizations that formed starting in 1874, including the White League in Louisiana, which quickly formed chapters in other states ; the Red Shirts in Mississippi in 1875, and with force in South Carolina and North Carolina ; as well as other " White Line " militias and rifle clubs.

The expression " sold down the river " originated as a lament of Upper South slaves, especially from Kentucky, who were shipped via the Ohio and Mississippi to cotton and sugar plantations in the Deep South.

Other red wolves have been released on the coastal islands in Florida, Mississippi, and South Carolina as part of the captive breeding management plan.

The Red Shirts and White League, who conducted insurgency in Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Louisiana, operated openly and were better organized than the Ku Klux Klan had been.

* April 7 – The Mississippi Territory is organized by the United States from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina ; later it is twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the U. S. and Spain ( which acquired territory in trade with Great Britain ).

Eventual Governor of Mississippi James K. Vardaman and Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina indulged in racist personal attacks in response to the invitation.

The extreme pro-slavery " Fire-Eater " William Lowndes Yancey and the Alabama delegation first left the hall, followed by the delegates of Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas, three of the four delegates from Arkansas, and one of the three delegates from Delaware.

* Southern: based in Atlanta, Georgia, the Southern Region ( R8 ) covers thirteen states ( Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia ; and Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands ), and thirty-four National Forests.

" In 1971, Shakur joined the Republic of New Afrika, an organization formed to create an independent black-majority nation composed of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.

The Indians were not impressed and held to the Carolina traders, who swarmed over the country, almost to the Mississippi.

Those few who stayed behind eventually formed tribal groups including the Eastern Band Cherokee, based in North Carolina, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and the Creeks in Atmore, Alabama.

The states with the highest membership rates are Oklahoma, Iowa, Mississippi, West Virginia, and North Carolina.

This originally was the Georgia and North Carolina border all the way back to the Mississippi River, until Tennessee was divided from North Carolina, and the Yazoo companies induced the legislature of Georgia to pass an act, approved by the governor in 1795, to sell the greater part of Georgia's territory presently comprising Alabama and Mississippi.

A polarizing figure who dominated the Second Party System in the 1820s and 1830s, as president he dismantled the Second Bank of the United States and initiated ethnic cleansing and forced relocation of Native American tribes from the Southeast to west of the Mississippi River.

James Lusk Alcorn ( November 4, 1816December 19, 1894 ) was a prominent American political figure in Mississippi during the 19th century.

Joseph Burton Sumner ( October 11, 1837 – February 15, 1920 ) was a figure in the founding of Sumner, Mississippi.

But it also follows the first definition above ( along with virtually all other geographic authorities and publications ) in using the combined Missouri-lower Mississippi length figure in lists of lengths of rivers around the world.

* George Adams ( judge ) ( 1784 – 1844 ), American lawyer and political figure in Kentucky and Mississippi

* William A. Thompson ( 1864 – 1925 ), figure in the United States Army Corps of Engineers whose name is used for the USACE's dredge for the upper Mississippi River

Charles Clark ( May 24, 1811December 18, 1877 ) was a Mississippi Democratic political figure, as well as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

) Bing Crosby, supported by Marjorie Reynolds and chorus, sings in black-face the number, " Abraham "; Crosby, dressed as a kind of Uncle Remus figure, and surrounded by an ante-bellum scene from the Mississippi, recounts the emancipatory achievements of the instigator of the Civil War, with cut-away embellishments of scenes of the Old South.

Beaudoin served as a kind of father figure to many Memphis writers, and his house on the Mississippi river was the site of his literary salon.

The novel's title refers to its central character, an ambiguous figure who sneaks aboard a Mississippi steamboat on April Fool's Day.

During the afternoon of August 28, 2005, Hurricane Katrina approached the northern coastline of the Gulf of Mexico, generating tropical force winds along coastal areas of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.

There was factionalism within the Democratic Party between the Regulars and New Departures, but as the state election of 1875 approached, the Democrats united and brought out the " Mississippi Plan " which called for the systematic organization of all whites to defeat the Republicans.

The book describes an incident that occurred sometime around 1895 as Jones ’ train approached Michigan City, Mississippi.

Moses approached the problem at the Open Program in a similar manner to problems he and others had faced in the early sixties in helping the black community of Mississippi seek political power through the vote.

He is not one to remain more comfortably and unquestioningly within a body of social, cultural, or literary traditions than he was within the traditions -- or possibly the regulations -- governing his tenure in the post office at Oxford, Mississippi, thirty-five years ago.

A proper cavalry command in his front would have developed the fact that he had run into one division of Polk's Army of the Mississippi moving up from the direction of Mobile to join Johnston at Dalton.

At Camp Taylor in Kentucky a barracks was built in an hour and a half from timber that had been standing in Mississippi forests one week before.

Itasca State Park, where the Mississippi River begins, is one of the outstanding tourist spots in Minnesota.

Beginning in fall 2007, the project will inject CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at the rate of one million tons per year, for up to 1. 5 years, into brine up to below the land surface near the Cranfield oil field about east of Natchez, Mississippi.

The proclamation, which established an appointed colonial government, was the de facto constitution of Quebec until 1774, when the British parliament passed the Quebec Act, which expanded the province's boundaries to the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, which was one of the grievances listed in the United States Declaration of Independence.

It was one of the first agencies in the U. S. to implement the painting of centerlines on highways statewide ( thanks to June McCarroll ); the first to build a freeway west of the Mississippi ( the Pasadena Freeway ); the first to build a four-level stack interchange ; the first to develop and deploy nonreflective raised pavement markers, better known as Botts ' dots ; and one of the first to implement dedicated freeway-to-freeway connector ramps for high-occupancy vehicle lanes.

In the 19th century, introduction of steamboats in the United States was the cause of deforestation of banks of major rivers, such as the Mississippi River, with increased and more severe flooding one of the environmental results.

* John Ford Home, American National Register historic landmark in Mississippi's Marion County, Mississippi ; built in 1809 by one of region's earliest settlers, John Ford ( minister )

He was selected as one of six presidential electors for the 1844 presidential election and campaigned effectively throughout Mississippi for the Democratic candidate, James K. Polk

While in prison, Davis arranged to sell his Mississippi plantation to one of his former slaves, Ben Montgomery.

At one time, the land actually grew when spring floods from the Mississippi River added sediment and stimulated marsh growth ; the land is now shrinking.

The team's logo shows two men, one in a Minneapolis Millers uniform and one in a St. Paul Saints uniform, shaking hands across the Mississippi River.

According to Memphis, Tennessee's The Commercial Appeal newspaper, one manatee was spotted in the Wolf River harbor near the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, on October 23, 2006, though it was later found dead ten miles downriver in McKellar Lake.

Simon showed Garfunkel a few songs that he had written in the folk style: " Sparrow ", " Bleecker Street ", and " He Was My Brother ", which was later dedicated to Andrew Goodman, a friend of both Simon and Garfunkel and a classmate of Simon's at Queens College, who was one of three civil rights workers murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, on June 21, 1964.

* " Clarksdale Moan " / " Mississippi County Farm Blues " ( one known copy )

He came down to the studio on the Mississippi Lad album, that's the first one I did for PolyGram, and he sang two of my songs, wouldn't accept any money, just trying to give me the best boost that he could.

* Natchez, one of the oldest towns on the Mississippi, is founded.

Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Mississippi each cast one fewer electoral vote than they were entitled to, on account of one elector dying before the electoral meeting.

The University of Southern Mississippi and the University of Florida supported the Ulam Quarterly, which was active from 1992 to 1996, and which was one of the first online mathematical journals.

As a result of the Convention's vote, the Mississippi and one half of the Alabama delegation walked out of the hall.