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Post Office (former) and Courthouse in Vicksburg Vicksburg is the only town/city and governmental center of county of Warren County, Mississippi, United States.
It is positioned 234 miles (377 km) northwest of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, and 40 miles (64 km) due west of Jackson, the state capital.
It is positioned on the Mississippi River athwart from the state of Louisiana.
1.3 Contemporary Vicksburg It has been suggested that this section be split out into another article titled History of Vicksburg, Mississippi.
The region which is now Vicksburg was long occupied by the Natchez Native Americans as part of their historical territory along the Mississippi.
Some Choctaw remained in Mississippi, citing article XIV of the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek; they became people of the state and the United States.
The small village was incorporated in 1825 as Vicksburg, titled after Newitt Vick, a Methodist minister who had established a Protestant mission on the site.
In 1835, amid the Murrell Excitement, a mob from Vicksburg attempted to expel the gamblers from the city, because the people were tired of the rougher element treating the town/city residents with nothing but contempt.
View of Vicksburg in 1855 During the American Civil War, the town/city finally surrendered amid the Siege of Vicksburg, after which the Union Army attained control of the entire Mississippi River.
Its locale up on a high bluff overlooking the Mississippi River proved otherwise impregnable to assault by federal troops.
Some accounts say that the inhabitants of Vicksburg did not jubilate the nationwide holiday of 4th of July again until 1945, after United States victory in World War II, but this is inaccurate.
Because of the city's locale on the Mississippi River, in the 19th century it assembled an extensive trade from the prodigious steamboat traffic.
In 1876 a Mississippi River flood cut off the large meander flowing past Vicksburg, leaving limited access to the new channel.
Between 1881 and 1894, the Anchor Line, a prominent steamboat business on the Mississippi River from 1859 to 1898, directed a steamboat called the City of Vicksburg.
By the mid-1870s, new white paramilitary groups had arisen in the Deep South, including the Red Shirts in Mississippi, as caucasians struggled to regain political and civil power over the black majority.
Nonetheless, in August 1874 a black sheriff, Peter Cosby, was propel in Vicksburg.
Twenty-first century historian Emilye Crosby estimates that 300 blacks were killed in the town/city and the encircling area of Claiborne County. The Red Shirts were active in Vicksburg and other Mississippi areas, and black pleas to the federal government for protection were not met.
Grant sent Federal troops to Vicksburg in January 1875.
In addition, a congressional committee investigated what was called the Vicksburg Riot at the time (and reported as the Vicksburg Massacre by northern newspapers.) They took testimony from both black and white residents, as reported by the New York Times, but no one was ever prosecuted for the deaths.
The Red Shirts and other white insurgents suppressed Republican voting by both caucasians and blacks; smaller-scale riots were staged in the state up to the 1875 elections, at which white Democrats took back control of the state legislature.
Due to their success, other southern states adopted what they called the "Mississippi Plan", an organized accomplishment to suppress the black vote and unite caucasians under the Democrats.
Under new constitutions, amendments and laws passed from 1890 (Mississippi) to 1908 in the remaining southern states, white Democrats disenfranchised most blacks and many poor caucasians by creating barriers to voter registration, such as poll taxes, literacy tests and grandfather clauses.
The United States Army Corps of Engineers diverted the Yazoo River in 1903 into the old, shallowing channel to rejuvenate the waterfront of Vicksburg.
Vicksburg has the only crossing over the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and Memphis.
On March 12, 1894, the prominent soft drink Coca-Cola was bottled for the first time in Vicksburg by Joseph A.
During the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, in which hundreds of thousands of acres were inundated, Vicksburg served as the major gathering point for refugees.
Lynchings and other forms of vigilante violence continued to occur in Vicksburg after the start of the 20th century.
In Mississippi, activists in the Vicksburg Movement became prominent amid the 1960s.
Mural of the Sprague on Vicksburg floodwall The Vicksburg Post is now positioned in a new building in a small shopping center off Interstate 20.
In 2001, a group of Vicksburg inhabitants visited the Paducah, Kentucky mural project, looking for ideas for their own improve development. In 2002, the Vicksburg Riverfront murals program was begun by Louisiana mural artist Robert Dafford and his team on the floodwall positioned on the waterfront in downtown. Subjects for the murals were drawn from the history of Vicksburg and the encircling area.
They include President Theodore Roosevelt's bear hunt, the Sultana, the Sprague, the Siege of Vicksburg, the Kings Crossing site, Willie Dixon, the Flood of 1927, the 1953 Vicksburg, Mississippi tornado outbreak, Rosa A.
Temple High School (known for integration activism) and the Vicksburg National Military Park. The universal was rather than in 2009 with the culmination of the Jitney Jungle/Glass Kitchen mural. The mural's subject is the annual "Run thru History" held in the Vicksburg National Military Park. On December 6 7, 2014, a symposium was held on the 140th anniversary of the Vicksburg Riots of 1874.
A range of scholars gave papers and an open panel discussion was held on the second day at the Vicksburg National Military Park, in collaboration with the Jacqueline House African American Museum. Vicksburg is positioned at 32 20 10 N 90 52 31 W (32.335986, -90.875356). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 35.3 square miles (91 km2), of which 32.9 square miles (85.2 km ) is territory and 2.4 square miles (6.2 km2) (6.78%) is water.
Vicksburg is positioned at the confluence of the Mississippi River and Yazoo River.
Much of the town/city is on top of a high bluff on the east bank of the Mississippi River.
Every summer, Vicksburg plays host to the Miss Mississippi Pageant and Parade.
Also every summer, the Vicksburg Homecoming Benevolent Club hosts a homecoming weekend/reunion that provides scholarships to graduating high school seniors.
Every spring and summer, Vicksburg Theatre Guild hosts Gold in the Hills, which is in the Guinness World Records book for longest running show.
Vicksburg is home to the Mc - Raven House, said to be "one of the most haunted homes in Mississippi". The town/city is home to three large US Army Corps of Engineers installations: the Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), the Mississippi Valley Division headquarters, and the Vicksburg District headquarters.
The 412th Engineer Command of the US Army Reserve and the 168th Engineer Brigade of the Mississippi Army National Guard are also positioned in Vicksburg.
The United States Coast Guard's 8th District/Lower Mississippi River zone has an Aids To Navigation unit positioned in Vicksburg, operating the buoy tending vessel USCGC Kickapoo. Mississippi River at Vicksburg The City of Vicksburg is served by the Vicksburg-Warren School District.
Vicksburg High School Vicksburg Junior High School Vicksburg Intermediate School Vicksburg Catholic School- St.
Vicksburg Christian Academy Vicksburg Community School (K-12) Vicksburg Middle School All Saints' Episcopal School was a small-town boarding school positioned on Confederate Avenue, which closed in 2006 after 98 years in operation.
Magnolia Avenue School serviced the black improve and was retitled Bowman High School to honor a former principal.
The Vicksburg Post, formerly the Vicksburg Evening Post, is a family-owned daily paper.
William Denis Brown, III, lawyer, businessman, state senator from Monroe, Louisiana; born in Vicksburg in 1931 Jack Christian, businessman; mayor-president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, from 1957 to 1964, was born in Vicksburg in 1911.
Mark Gray, Country music singer, born in Vicksburg in 1952.
Strickland, businessman and politician in Louisiana and Texas, born in Vicksburg in 1942 Vicksburg is mentioned in the Pulitzer Prize winning play Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley.
Vicksburg is mentioned in the song "Dixie Lily" from Elton John's 8th studio album Caribou, in the last line of the chorus: "...down from Louisiana on the Vicksburg run." Vicksburg is mentioned in the song "Mississippi Queen" by the modern band Mountain, in the third line of the song: "Way down around Vicksburg, Around Louisiana way, Lived a Cajun lady, Aboard the Mississippi Queen." Vicksburg is mentioned in the song High Water (For Charley Patton) by Bob Dylan.
A made-for-TV movie version of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, based on Maya Angelou's memoir, was filmed in Vicksburg.
Was filmed in Vicksburg.
Vicksburg is featured in Robert A.
In the novel Underground to Canada the protagonists Julilly and Liza are slaves on a cotton plantation near Vicksburg.
Vicksburg Battlefield Museum Vicksburg National Military Park Vicksburg Riverfront Murals Vicksburg Theatre Guild "Profile for Vicksburg, Mississippi, MS".
"THE VICKSBURG FLATBOAT WAR OF 1838 AND ITS INFLUENCE ON SUBMERGED LANDS LAW IN MISSISSIPPI".
Vicksburg's Long Shadow: The Civil War Legacy Of Race And Remembrance.
Emilye Crosby, Little Taste of Freedom: The Black Freedom Struggle in Claiborne County, Mississippi, Univ of North Carolina Press, 2006, p.
"It Took A Community To Raise A Mural!", Vicksburg Riverfront Murals a b "Celebrating Vicksburg: A Great American Community", Vicksburg Riverfront Murals Vicksburg Riverfront Murals "140th Anniversary Vicksburg Riots Symposium", Press release, 6 November 2014, National Park Service, accessed 15 June 2015 Sector Lower Mississippi River Organization a b Blue Ribbon Schools Program: Schools Recognized 1982 1983 Through 1999 2002 History of Vicksburg's Jewish improve Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Vicksburg.
City of Vicksburg Vicksburg Chamber of Commerce Vicksburg Convention & Visitors Bureau The Vicksburg Post, small-town daily journal Vicksburg Foundation for Historic Preservation Municipalities and communities of Warren County, Mississippi, United States
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