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

In thousands of school districts, indeed, in the entire State of Mississippi, no plaintiff has come forth.

* Mississippi State University

* Cambridge State University, a diploma mill, formerly in Louisiana and Hawaii and later relocated to Mississippi

His major subsequent films include The French Connection ( 1971 ), in which he played Jimmy " Popeye " Doyle ; The Poseidon Adventure ( 1972 ); The Conversation ( 1974 ); Superman ( 1978 ), in which he played arch-villain Lex Luthor ; Hoosiers ( 1986 ); Mississippi Burning ( 1987 ); Unforgiven ( 1992 ); The Firm ( 1993 ); Crimson Tide ( 1995 ); Get Shorty ( 1995 ); The Birdcage ( 1996 ); Enemy of the State ( 1998 ); and The Royal Tenenbaums ( 2001 ).

Both before and after his time in the Pierce administration, he served as a Democratic U. S. Senator representing the State of Mississippi.

* Legion State Park, located in the red hill country of Louisville, Mississippi, and area originally inhabited by the Choctaw Indian Nation

* 1931-The first night football game in Mississippi is played on the Millsaps campus between the Majors and Mississippi A & M ( now Mississippi State University ).

Mississippi State Penitentiary, where Son House was confined

He received a 15-year sentence at the Mississippi State Penitentiary ( Parchman Farm ), of which he served two years.

** In the second day of violent demonstrations at Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, state law enforcement officers fire into the demonstrators, killing 2 and injuring 12.

* February 28 – Mississippi State University is created by the Mississippi Legislature ( under the name The Agricultural and Mechanical College of the State of Mississippi ).

* August 15 – By act of the U. S. Congress ( March 3 ), the Alabama Territory is created by splitting the Mississippi Territory in half, on the day the Mississippi constitution is drafted, four months before Mississippi became a State of the United States.

The Loewen Group, Inc., received a particularly large jury verdict in the State of Mississippi which was later found to be in error as the allegations against Loewen Group proved false.

The flower's abundance in Mississippi is reflected in its nickname of " Magnolia State ".

Saint Paul is served by the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport ( MSP ), which sits on southwest of the city on the west side of the Mississippi River between Minnesota State Highway 5, Interstate 494, Minnesota State Highway 77, and Minnesota State Highway 62.

He used the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, of which he was a member.

The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission was strongly opposed to integration and civil rights.

Hopkins, an investigator for the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission, who spied on activities of residents, wrote that the FBI was in Adams County in force " because of the alleged burning of several churches in that area as well as several bombings and the whipping of several Negroes ; also, because of the murder of two Negroes from Meadville whose bodies were recovered from the Mississippi river while the murders of three civil rights workers from Philadelphia was being investigated by Federal, State and local officials.

* Rex Armistead-former member of Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission

He was denied admission on account of his race, and when he persisted, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission conspired to have him framed for a crime, for which he was sentenced to seven years in Parchman Prison.

Spies paid by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission kept track of all northerners and activists.

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Draper also made large financial contributions to efforts to oppose the American civil rights movement and the racial desegregation mandated by Brown v. Board of Education, such as $ 215, 000 to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1963.

Waller effectively shut-down the segregationist Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission by vetoing its appropriation while he was governor.

During the civil rights movement of the 1960s he secretly sent $ 255, 000 to the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission in 1963 and 1964 to support racial segregation.

Draper was one of the primary out-of-state benefactors of the Mississippi Sovereignty Commission ( MSC ) during 1963 and 1964.

J. P. Morgan, Jr., chairman, U. S. Steel, who handled British contracts in the United States for food and munitions during World War I. Wickliffe Draper used his J. P. Morgan Trust Account to fund The Mississippi Sovereignty Commission and its activities.

Thirty years later a federal court order disclosed that these were provided to the newspaper by the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.

After he published a letter about integrated education, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission conspired to have him arrested on false charges.

Zack Van Landingham of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission urged J. H. White, the African-American president of Mississippi Vocational College, to persuade Kennard to end his quest at Mississippi Southern College.

Bo Diddley was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission with a Mississippi Blues Trail historic marker placed in McComb, his birthplace, in recognition of his enormous contribution to the development of the blues in Mississippi.

The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, in conjunction with the Mississippi River Commission, extended the levee system beginning in 1882 to cover the riverbanks from Cairo, Illinois to the mouth of the Mississippi delta in Louisiana.

These in turn cooperate through the Mississippi River Parkway Commission ( MRPC ).

Working with both the Mississippi Governor ’ s Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal, and the Louisiana Recovery Authority, DPZ ’ s designers generated plans for rebuilding at the regional, local and neighborhood scales, as well as developed guidelines for individual homeowners looking to rebuild.

The division commander serves on two national and international decision-making bodies: co-chair of the Lake Superior, Niagara, and Ontario / St Lawrence Seaway boards of control ; and the Mississippi River Commission.

MVD serves as headquarters for the Mississippi River Commission.

* Troyce Guice ( 1932 – 2008 ), a member of the Louisiana Levee Board and the Mississippi River Bridge Commission, twice a candidate for the U. S. Senate.

The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a historic marker at the Peavine Railroad site intersection with Highway 446 in Boyle, designating it as a site on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

The Mississippi Blues Commission placed a historic marker at the Po Monkey's Lounge in 2009 designating it as a site on the Mississippi Blues Trail for its contribution to the development of the blues ( and one of the few authentic juke joints that is still operating today ).

A historic marker has been placed by the Mississippi Blues Commission in Port Gibson commemorating the contribution The Rabbit's Foot Company has made to the development of the blues in Mississippi.

Friars Point was honored by the Mississippi Blues Commission when it placed a historic marker for Robert Lee ‘ Nighthawk ’ McCollum, otherwise known as Robert Nighthawk, marking his position on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

* Eugene Sykes, Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi and the first chairman of the Federal Communications Commission.

The historic 1894 Mississippi River Commission Building

The Blue Front Cafe in Bentonia and native son Skip James have received historical markers by The Mississippi Blues Commission commemorating their importance in the history of the development of the blues in Mississippi.