Then, in 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union. With approximately 80,000 Mississippians serving in the Confederate Army, the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and Robert E. Lee's surrender on April 9th, 1865, ending the Civil War, were dramatic events for the state ("Chronological History"). These events changed the state politically and socially.
In 1868, Mississippi's first bi-racial constitutional convention was formed. Deemed the 'Black and Tan' Convention, the new constitution drafted guaranteed the rights of ex-slaves as well as punished ex-Confederate soldiers. Voters in the state reject the Constitution. The next year, a modified version, not punishing ex-Confederate soldiers, is ratified. This paves the way for readmittance to the Union, on February 23rd, 1870 ("Chronological History"). The 20th century continued with many advancements and challenges for the state.
At the beginning of the century, the boll weevil made its appearance and, in 1907, most of Mississippi's cotton crop was lost to the pest. In 1923, only three years after securing the right to vote, two women join the Mississippi state legislature -- Senator Belle Kearny and Representative Nellie Nugent Somerville. To facilitate navigation of the Mississippi River, and to prevent flooding, Congress authorized a lock and dam system in 1930, which was completed ten years later (Lowry & McCardle). Mississippi's first sales tax went into effect in 1932, and the first oil well was brought in 1939, in Yazoo County. The 1960s saw the first black person, James Meredith, enter University of Mississippi, marking the beginning of the end to segregation in public colleges and university. This decade...
These short-term agreements should be among contingency plans drawn up before a flood arrives, although it would not always be possible to predict the dimensions of floods and the resourcefulness and responses of individuals facing the emergency. The proper approach would be a mingling of a lot of intergovernmental planning and voluntary agreements among city, county and State governments and federal agencies (Wahl). The widespread human and material distress, caused
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