Philadelphia, Mississippi
Philadelphia, Mississippi Neshoba County courthouse in Philadelphia Neshoba County courthouse in Philadelphia Location of Philadelphia, Mississippi Location of Philadelphia, Mississippi Philadelphia, Mississippi is positioned in the US Philadelphia, Mississippi - Philadelphia, Mississippi State Mississippi Website City of Philadelphia Philadelphia is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States.
The region of Neshoba County and the encircling counties was the heart of the Choctaw Nation from the 17th century until the removal of most of the citizens in the 1830s.
Philadelphia is incorporated as a municipality; it was given its current name in 1903, two years before the barns brought new opportunities and prosperity to the town.
Main articles: Choctaw and Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Many thousands of years ago, Paleo-Indians lived in what today is referred to as the American South. The Native American Choctaw citizens are descended from the Mississippian and other societies in the Mississippi river valley encountered by Spanish explorers in the early 16th century.
After the United States victory in the American Revolutionary War, Choctaw lands Alabama and Mississippi were encroached on by European-American settlers.
By 1830, after passage of the Indian Removal Act, the Choctaw were forced to choose between removal to west of the Mississippi River, or becoming U.S.
They were granted the biggest amount of territory in Indian Territory, in the fertile southeast, in exchange for ceding the remainder of their traditional homeland in Mississippi and Alabama.
They also were granted the option of remaining on reserved territory in Mississippi as United States people, but the government did not give them all the territory that they believed they deserved.
Main article: Mississippi civil rights workers murders In the mid-twentieth century, Mississippi was a battleground of the civil rights boss as, like other states of the South, it had long disfranchised blacks and subjected them to ethnic segregation and Jim Crow laws.
Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of activists James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former civil worker, also from New York.
Ku Klux Klan members (including Cecil Price, the deputy sheriff of Neshoba County) released the three young men from jail, took them to an isolated spot, and killed them, then buried them in an earthen dam.
The murders and related conspiracy gave rise to the "Mississippi Burning" trial, United States v.
On August 3, 1980, Ronald Reagan gave his first post-convention speech at the Neshoba County Fair after being officially chosen as the Republican nominee for President of the United States.
Marcus Dupree played high school football for the Philadelphia High School Tornadoes from 1978 to 1981.
He was an outstanding athlete who was widely recognized for his achievements. Dupree scored 87 touchdowns total amid his playing time in high school, breaking the record set by Herschel Walker by one. In 1981, Marcus's final High School football game was played at Warriors Stadium of the tribal high school at the Choctaw Indian Reservation. The author Willie Morris described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as "the most distinct ive crowd I had ever seen ...
In 2004, the Hinds County sheriff, Malcolm Mac - Millan, called for re-opening of the case against Edgar Ray Killen, a suspect in the murder of three civil rights workers in 1964.
Killen entered the Mississippi Department of Corrections fitness on June 27, 2005.
In May 2009, Philadelphia propel its first black mayor, James A.
Young, a 53-year-old Pentecostal preacher and a former county supervisor. He defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by 46 votes in the Democratic major (there was no Republican challenger). Jim Prince, publisher of the small-town The Neshoba Democrat journal said, "Philadelphia will always be connected to what happened here in 1964, but the fact that Philadelphia, Mississippi, with its notorious past, could elect a black man as mayor, it might be time to quit picking on Philadelphia, Mississippi." Young's campaign staff credited Barack Obama's presidential campaign for increasing registration of black and young voters in Philadelphia, many of whom voted for Young. Young's term began July 3, 2009.
Philadelphia, Mississippi seen from the east end of town.
Philadelphia - Neshoba County Library According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 10.6 square miles (27 km2), of which 10.6 square miles (27 km2) are territory and 0.04-square-mile (0.10 km2) (0.19%) is water.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 26.1% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
Philadelphia High School The City of Philadelphia is served by the Philadelphia Public School District. The Neshoba Democrat is presented in Philadelphia.
Cable tv services for the town/city of Philadelphia are contracted to Metro - Cast Communications. Electrical utilities, as well as water and sewage service, are provided by the City of Philadelphia as Philadelphia Utilities.
Marcus Dupree, football player in NFL and USFL, also known for building the Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Philadelphia; subject of "The Best That Never Was", an episode in ESPN's 30 for 30 series Phillip Martin, Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians Mulholland, lawyer and Mississippi state senator "Profile for Philadelphia, Mississippi".
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"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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