There were two possible methods of breaching the conservative barriers around the Rules Committee: 1 ) to pack it with additional liberals and break the conservative-liberal deadlock, or 2 ) to remove one of the conservatives -- namely Mississippi's 14-term William Meyers Colmer ( pronounced Calmer ).

In mid-1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party ( MFDP ) was organized with the purpose of challenging Mississippi's all-white and anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention of that year as not representative of all Mississippians.

Indiana's governor asked all state flags to be flown at half-staff for Calley, and Utah's and Mississippi's governors also disagreed with the verdict.

During the campaign, he asked voters to " Stand tall with Paul " against those wanting to change Mississippi's " way of life ", in reference to his confrontation with the federal marshals.

That year he also challenged Mississippi's unpledged elector law as well as racial segregation in primary elections ; he also defended three members of the Blood Brothers, a Harlem gang, charged with murder.

Blacks were given the vote in 1965 with the federal Voting Rights Act but made little progress as Mississippi's legislature passed several laws to dilute the power of their votes.

The new bypass provides improved access to U. S. Route 49, another of Mississippi's major four-lane highways connecting Jackson and points north through the Delta with the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

In the summer of 1964, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, or " Freedom Democrats " for short, was organized with the purpose of challenging Mississippi's all-white and anti-civil rights delegation to the Democratic National Convention of that year as not representative of all Mississippians.

Although educated African Americans mounted legal challenges ( with many secretly funded by educator Booker T. Washington and his northern allies ), the Supreme Court upheld Mississippi's and Alabama's provisions in its rulings in Williams v. Mississippi ( 1898 ) and Giles v. Harris ( 1903 ).

The violence went unchecked and the plan worked as intended: during Mississippi's 1875 election, five counties with large black majorities polled 12, 7, 4, 2, and 0 votes, respectively.

Until the 2007 season, he enjoyed the public support of The University of Mississippi's chancellor Robert Khayat and other administrators with oversight of the football program, including Athletic Director Pete Boone.

Now all of the water from the Red River flows into the Atchafalaya along with about 30 % of the Mississippi's water.

Valparaiso was down 69 – 67 with 4. 1 seconds remaining in the game and Mississippi's Ansu Sesay at the free throw line.

Even though Doxey had the support of U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mississippi's senior U. S. Senator, Theodore G. Bilbo, Eastland defeated him in the Democratic primary.

After one term, he ran as the Democratic candidate to succeed Republican incumbent Trent Lott in Mississippi's 5th District when Lott made a successful run for the Senate.

She ran for Congress in 1964 and 1965, and was then seated as a member of Mississippi's legitimate delegation to the Democratic National Convention of 1968, where she was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War.

In Mississippi's 1874 election, the Republican Party carried a 30, 000 majority in what had hitherto been a Democratic Party stronghold.

Fleming won the Mississippi primary for the Democratic Party nomination and then went on and faced Senator Thad Cochran in Mississippi's November 2008 Senate election.

He won reelection in 2008 by a wide margin over Erik Fleming ; assuming Cochran completes his current term, he will pass Eastland as the second-longest serving Senator in Mississippi's history.

In 1820, the state legislature elected Holmes to be one of Mississippi's Senators in the U. S. Congress, and he served from 1821 until late 1825, when his election to another term as governor of Mississippi forced him to resign.

The legislature anticipated that legal segregation of public education was in danger ( and would in four years be declared unconstitutional in the United States Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education the institution, hoping that its existence would draw African-American applicants who might have otherwise applied to attend Mississippi's premier whites-only institutions — the University of Mississippi, Mississippi State University, and the University of Southern Mississippi.

There is still yet to be service from Love Field to Kansas and Mississippi, although Southwest has flights to and from Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi's largest airport.

* October 11 – Earl Bascom, rodeo cowboy and artist, designs and builds Mississippi's first permanent rodeo arena at Columbia, Mississippi.

the Kennedys ", and tried to tie Barnett and Johnson to them as well as convince voters that he and GOP Lieutenant Governor candidate Stanford Morse represented the best hope for preserving Mississippi's traditional " way of life " while at the same time making overall progress.

Mississippi's state Constitution includes a unique provision that any inmate seeking a pardon from that state's Governor must publish a legal notice of their request for a pardon at least thirty ( 30 ) days before making the request in a newspaper located in or near the county where the inmate seeking the pardon was convicted and sentenced.

Water from the Mississippi is normally diverted into the Atchafalaya Basin only at Old River, where floodgates are routinely used to redirect the Mississippi's flow into the Atchafalaya River such that the volume of the two rivers is split 70 %/ 30 %, respectively, as measured at the latitude of Red River Landing.

On three separate occasions ( 1956, 1957 and 1959 ), Kennard sought to enroll at Mississippi Southern College, one of Mississippi's premier institutions, which was still segregated and had an exclusively white student body.

Issn: 0022-2771 Argues that census data from Greene County refutes McWhiney's claim that Mississippi's Piney Woods region was predominantly Celtic during the antebellum decades.

Without her knowledge or consent, she was sterilized in 1961 by a white doctor as a part of the state of Mississippi's plan to reduce the number of poor blacks in the state.

As the territory had achieved statehood only a year previously, Franklin thus became Mississippi's first public school.

" The Walls " was Mississippi's first prison

In 1843 a penitentiary in four city squares in central Jackson became Mississippi's first state prison ; it is located where the Capitol of Mississippi currently resides.

ISSN 0018-2370 ; Lynch was Mississippi's first African American secretary of state.

The highway was Mississippi's first Three-digit Interstate, complete by 1981.

A delegate to the constitutional conventions of 1817 and 1832, Gerard Brandon also helped draft Mississippi's first two constitutions.

* Nine African-American students from Mississippi's Tougaloo College made the first effort of passive resistance to end segregation in the state capital, Jackson, by walking into the whites-only main branch of the municipal public library.

For 23 years, Ole Miss was Mississippi's only public institution of higher learning, and for 110 years it was the state's only comprehensive university.

From 1947 to 1978, he served alongside Eastland ; thus Stennis spent 31 years as Mississippi's junior Senator, even though he had more seniority than most of his other colleagues.

Colmer served longer in either house of Congress than anyone in Mississippi's history except Jamie Whitten, who served 54 years in Congress.

McEwen's ally Newt Gingrich of Georgia had discovered that, thanks to the C-SPAN cable network's promise of " gavel-to-gavel coverage " of the House, he and his fellow conservatives such as McEwen, Mississippi's Trent Lott, California's Robert K. Dornan, and Pennsylvania's Robert S. Walker could speak directly to Americans.

In 1932, Colmer was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat from Mississippi's 6th District, located on the Gulf Coast.

North Carolina's Peg Leg Sam, and Mississippi's Son House.

In 1988, Smith ran for the U. S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Mississippi's 5th congressional district in the southern portion of the state after eight-term incumbent Trent Lott gave up the seat to make a successful run for the Senate.