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Vicksburg Ms National Military
- From: Moorerk
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Description:The nine-foot tall sculpture depicts three figures - two Union soldiers representing the 1st and 3d Mississippi Infantry, African Descent, that participated in the Vicksburg campaign, and the third a civilian laborer. The soldier on the left looks toward the future that he helped secure through force of arms. The civilian looks to the past and the institution of slavery that he has left behind. Between them they support a wounded comrade, representing the sacrifice in blood made by African American soldiers on the field of battle. Of the more than 1,300 monuments in the park, this memorial is the first to honor black troops, and the first tribute of its type honoring African American soldiers placed on any of the Civil War battlefields administered by the National Park Service. Groundbreaking for the monument was held on September 20, 2003, with dedication of the memorial on February 14, 2004. “Commemorating the Service of the 1st and 3d Mississippi Infantry, African Descent and All Mississippians of African Descent Who Participated in the Vicksburg Campaign.” In March 1999, Vicksburg Mayor Robert M. Walker proposed placement of a monument in Vicksburg National Military Park recognizing the contributions of African American soldiers during the Vicksburg campaign. In August of that year, the concept was approved, and specifications for design, text, and site plan were developed and submitted to the National Park Service. Along with the initial $25,000 appropriated by the City of Vicksburg towards the design and construction of the monument, an additional $250,000 was requested and funded through the State of Mississippi. Final approval to erect the memorial was received in 2002 and in November of that year, the design submitted by Dr. J. Kim Sessums of Brookhaven, Mississippi, was selected for the bronze monument.
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Mississippi
- From: Moorerk
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Nearly 10,000 BCE, Native Americans or Paleo-Indians arrived in what today is referred to as the South.[12] Paleoindians in the South were hunter-gatherers who pursued the megafauna that became extinct following the end of the Pleistocene age. After thousands of years, the Paleoindians developed a rich and complex agricultural society. Archaeologists called these people the Mississippians of the Mississippian culture; they were Mound Builders, whose large earthworks related to political and religious rituals still stand throughout the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Descendant Native American tribes include the Chickasaw and Choctaw. Other tribes who inhabited the territory of Mississippi (and whose names were honored in local towns) include the Natchez, the Yazoo and the Biloxi.
The first major European expedition into the territory that became Mississippi was that of Hernando de Soto, who passed through in 1540. The French, in April 1699, established the first European settlement at Fort Maurepas (also known as Old Biloxi), built at Ocean Springs and settled by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville. In 1716, the French founded Natchez on the Mississippi River (as Fort Rosalie); it became the dominant town and trading post of the area. The French called the greater territory "New Louisiana".
Through the next decades, the area was ruled by Spanish, British and French colonial governments. Under French and Spanish rule, there developed a class of free people of color (gens de couleur libres), mostly descendants of European men and enslaved women, and their multiracial children. In the early days the French and Spanish colonists were chiefly men. Even as more European women joined the settlements, there continued to be interracial unions. Often the European men would help their children get educated, and sometimes settled property on them, as well as freeing slave children and their mothers. The free people of color became educated and formed a third class between the Europeans and enslaved Africans in the French and Spanish settlements, although not so large a community as in New Orleans. After Great Britain's victory in the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War), the French deeded the Mississippi area to them under the terms of the Treaty of Paris (1763).
After the American Revolution, this area became part of the new United States of America. The Mississippi Territory was organized on April 7, 1798, from territory ceded by Georgia and South Carolina. It was later twice expanded to include disputed territory claimed by both the United States and Spain. From 1800 to about 1830, the United States purchased some lands (Treaty of Doak's Stand) from Native American tribes for new settlements of Americans.[citation needed]
On December 10, 1817, Mississippi was the 20th state admitted to the Union.
When cotton was king during the 1850s, Mississippi plantation owners—especially those of the Delta and Black Belt regions—became wealthy due to the high fertility of the soil, the high price of cotton on the international market, and their assets in slaves. The planters' dependence on hundreds of thousands of slaves for labor and the severe wealth imbalances among whites, played strong roles both in state politics and in planters' support for secession. By 1860, the enslaved population numbered 436,631 or 55% of the state's total of 791,305. There were fewer than 1000 free people of color.[13] The relatively low population of the state before the Civil War reflected the fact that land and villages were developed only along the riverfronts, which formed the main transportation corridors. Ninety percent of the Delta bottomlands were frontier and undeveloped.[14] The state needed many more settlers for development.
On January 9, 1861, Mississippi became the second state to declare its secession from the Union, and it was one of the founding members of the Confederate States of America.
During Reconstruction, the first constitutional convention in 1868 framed a constitution whose major elements would last for 22 years. The convention was the first political organization to include freedmen representatives, 17 among the 100 members. Although 32 counties had black majorities, they elected whites as well as blacks to represent them. The convention adopted universal suffrage; did away with property qualifications for suffrage or for office, which also benefited poor whites; provided for the state's first public school system; forbade race distinctions in the possession and inheritance of property; and prohibited limiting civil rights in travel.[15] Under the terms of Reconstruction, Mississippi was restored to the Union on February 23, 1870.
While Mississippi typified the Deep South in passing Jim Crow laws in the early 20th century, its history was more complex. Because the Mississippi Delta contained so much fertile bottomland which had not been developed before the Civil War, 90 percent of the land was still frontier. After the Civil War, tens of thousands of migrants were attracted to the area. They could earn money by clearing the land and selling timber, and eventually advance to ownership. The new farmers included freedmen, who achieved unusually high rates of land ownership in the Mississippi bottomlands. In the 1870s and 1880s, many black farmers succeeded in gaining land ownership.[14]
By the turn of the century, two-thirds of the farmers in Mississippi who owned land in the Delta were African-American. Many were able to keep going through difficult years of falling cotton prices only by extending their debts. Cotton prices fell throughout the decades following the Civil War. As another agricultural depression lowered cotton prices into the 1890s, however, numerous African-American farmers finally had to sell their land to pay off debts, thus losing the land into which they had put so much labor.[14]
White legislators created a new constitution in 1890, with provisions that effectively disfranchised most blacks and many poor whites. Estimates are that 100,000 black and 50,000 white men were removed from voter registration rolls over the next few years. [16] The loss of political influence contributed to the difficulties of African Americans in their attempts to obtain extended credit. Together with Jim Crow laws, increased frequency of lynchings beginning in the 1890s, failure of the cotton crops due to boll weevil infestation, successive severe flooding in 1912 and 1913 created crisis conditions for many African Americans. With control of the ballot box and more access to credit, white planters expanded their ownership of Delta bottomlands and could take advantage of new railroads.
By 1910, a majority of black farmers in the Delta had lost their land and were sharecroppers. By 1920, the third generation after freedom, most African Americans in Mississippi were landless laborers again facing poverty.[14] Starting about 1913, tens of thousands of black Americans left Mississippi for the North in the Great Migration to industrial cities such as St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and New York. They sought jobs, better education for their children, the right to vote, relative freedom from discrimination, and better living. In the migration of 1910–1940, they left a society that had been steadily closing off opportunity. Most migrants from Mississippi took trains directly north to Chicago and often settled near former neighbors.
The Second Great Migration from the South started in the 1940s, lasting until 1970. Almost half a million people left Mississippi in the second migration, three-quarters of them black. Nationwide during the first half of the 20th century, African Americans became rapidly urbanized and many worked in industrial jobs. The Second Great Migration included destinations in the West, especially California, where the buildup of the defense industry offered high-paying jobs to African Americans.
Mississippi generated rich, quintessentially American music traditions: gospel music, country music, jazz, blues and rock and roll. All were invented, promulgated or heavily developed by Mississippi musicians and most came from the Mississippi Delta. Many musicians carried their music north to Chicago, where they made it the heart of that city's jazz and blues.
Mississippi was a center of activity to educate and register voters during the Civil Rights Movement. Although 42% of the state's population was African American in 1960, discriminatory voter registration processes still prevented most of them from voting, consequent to provisions of the state constitution, which had been in place since 1890. [17] Students and community organizers from across the country came to help register voters and establish Freedom Schools. Resistance and harsh attitudes of most white politicians (including the creation of the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission), the participation of many Mississippians in the White Citizens' Councils, and the violent tactics of the Ku Klux Klan and its sympathizers, gained Mississippi a reputation in the 1960s as a reactionary state.[18][19]
In 1966, the state was the last to officially repeal prohibition of alcohol.
The state repealed its segregationist era poll tax in 1989 and its ban on interracial marriage (miscegenation) in 1987. In 1995, it symbolically ratified the Thirteenth Amendment, which had abolished slavery. In 2009, the legislature passed a bill to repeal other discriminatory civil rights laws that had been enacted in 1964 but ruled unconstitutional in 1967 by federal courts. Republican Governor Haley Barbour signed the bill into law.[20]
On August 17, 1969, Category 5 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast, killing 248 people and causing US$1.5 billion in damage (1969 dollars). On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina, though a Category 3 storm upon final landfall, caused even greater destruction across the entire 90 miles (145 km) of Mississippi Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Alabama
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2009 Floodrun
- From: txujci
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2009 Floodrun, a stop at Diamond Bluff, Wisconsin along the Mississippi River on Hwy 35.
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Lock and Dam #8 on the Mississ
- From: gostr8r
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kurt6
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Mississippi Fever
- From: Barak
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my friend Ted's new band! They work out of Southern Illinois and the St Louis Area. They really rock
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First road trip
- From: RedSarge
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Well I made it to Texas. I would love to say it was an uneventful ride but I can't. I started the ride from Havelock North Carolina on Thursday the 27th of Aug. 2009 I headed east on Hwy 70 to Interstate 95. Nice ride at this point but nothing I hadn't done before. I took the 95 south to South Carolina and and that's when I realized I had not checked the weather before I left. I stopped to eat lunch somewhere in South Carolina and still didn't check the weather. 150 miles later I stop for gas and pour the water out of my boots. Yeah that tropical storm off the east coast was running down my ass crack and into my boots. Time to close my zippers and waterproof my bags. I put my stylish frogg togg pants on kept riding thinking this rain can't last long (yeah I didn't check the weather at the gas station either). I rode to Atlanta stopping just for gas along the way I didn't even bother to pour the water out of my boots. Once I got to Atlanta it went from bad to worse It felt more like Jet skiing than bike riding. So as I made it up the river know as the Interstate 20 when it's not monsoon season in Georga. I called it a day. I stayed at some cheap hotel for the night that wouldn't give me a Military discount because of a Braves game (I think I heard someone say it was rained out, not sure though). So after a long shower and a change of clothes I sit down and look at the weather. Great a Tropical Storm had I known I would have gone through Tennessee oh well. Set my pistol on the night stand opened the curtin and went to bed.
Day Two
Woke up at 5:00 looked out the window hoping the weather channel was wrong once again nope not this time pitch black. I kept telling myself it was just because it was early. grabbed loaded my bags on the bike snapped the Switch blade winshield back on and rode to the front desk yeah rode did I say hotel yeah ghetto ass Motel is what I ment. Hence the pistol on the night stand. Turns out they had breakfast I figure It saves me another stop. wait around for about an hour, still black skies. I rode off at 6:30 still on the 20. I got to Burmingham well atleast thats what the road signs said. Still balck skies with minimal visability. The rain did not stop until I got to the Mississippi / Alabama border. First real rest stop, I sat on a bench and let my feet dry made a few calls to let my wife and friends know where I was. The weather was more cooperative the rest of the way until I got to Houston Tx. I had taken the 20 to Interstate 59 then went on to Interstate 10. That's where trip went from bearable to WTF is this BS and WhyTF didn't I know better. It's around 8:00pm the 10 is a mess with road work and Jersey barriers all over, the white lines on the road lead you right into more barriers and ofcourse it starts to rain again. I pull over at yet another ritzy motel. Not sure if I should call it a day or press on. My brother lives just south of Houston so i'm thinking, hey it's just another 50 mins what could go wrong?
The accident
I waited outside the motel untill the rain let up. An hour later im back on the bike headed on the frontage road for the first Gas staion. Once I filled up I looked at my GPS it said I was just east of the 8 loop "great I can take that south and be out of this traffic in no time." Turns out the last on ramp before the 8 Loop was behind me so as im headed down the frontage road I see the signs for the 8 loop exits off the 10 damn it I missed it oh well keep going and hit the 610 loop. and that's where it all went to shit. You see I was also thinking hey just take the next underpass and get back on the 10 east bound and you can still take the 8 loop. During that moment of indecission I hit a pot hole that must have gone atleast half way to hell. My bike and I go flying in the air I tried to squeeze my gas tank with my knees I grabbed on for dear life and waited for the worst. I was able to keep the bike upright but I will not take any credit for that. I came to a complete stop in the middle of the road asked my self over and over again WTF was that? looked around to see if anyone saw what just happened thinking maybe they could tell me. I got myself together rode my VTX off the road at this point the front tire was flat. I started to inspect the bike and I find the spot where my tire hit the pot hole I hit it hatd enough to bend the rim back like a mushroom. So the tire was no longer making contact with the rim. I had the bike towed for maintnace.
I'll update more later.
I bruised my knees a bit from squeezing the tank but that was it.
Gunny
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- 2 months ago
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danacrotwell
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jwinfred
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Sturgis South
- From: rfryery
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I spent Saturday night at Sturgis, Mississippi for the Sturgis South Motorcycle Rally. First time I've been and was really impressed by the number of bikes there. Normally a really small, quiet, town until all these bikes and riders show up for the weekend. Outstanding concerts in the park and awesome bikes. Any body out there been before? What do you think of the gathering?
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- 3 months ago
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Just about me
- From: mscheller
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Hi I’m mike I live in Umatilla FL. That’s just north of Orlando FL next to the Rat.
I ride a 2007 Kawasaki Nomad and I love it. No disrespect to the Harley riders. But I find it has a much better ride. Yes I have ridden a Harley several times.
I have added several things to personalize my ride. They are risers from Scootworks, a Hypercharger Pro from Kuryakyn
Highway pegs from Kuryakyn
Kuryakyn Rainbow Strobe
Mud Flaps from Chilhowee which by the way has some great leather goods. Check them out www.chilhowee.net
Vance & Hines Duel Bagger Pipes
DynoJet Power Commander
I have some other plans just need to come up with the money.
I love to ride and have taken a couple of long distance rides. The first one was to Savannah, then Biloxi Mississippi, and to New Orleans. I have a plan to go back to Savannah and next year I am planning a ride to Montana. I’m not sure of the town’s name. It escapes me right now. Any way just remember, life is uncertain folks, have your dissert first.
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- 4 months ago
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Firebird logo
- From: onetopp
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Firebird logo sold by Pure and SOJO petroleum products in Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. It also has the right to expand the use of the name and trademark anywhere in the United States.
- 4 months ago
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silverdeer0454
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Natchez Trace ride
- From: ynkmup
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Short clip on the Natchez Trace wich runs from Natchez Ms to just south of Nashville Tn. Wife and I went from Florence Al to Natchez Ms then across La to Fort Polk La to see kids. Rode over into Texas for a while! The Trace is a very historical and nice ride. It was interesting to learn how goods and such were sent down the mighty Mississippi River then the boats were sold for thier lumber and the return trip north wich created the Trace!
- 4 months ago
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Our ride up the Natchez Trace
- From: jakejessica
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- 4 months ago
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