History Of Mississippi
The state of Mississippi's history goes back beyond American statehood to ancient Native American times.
Read more about History Of Mississippi: Native Americans, European Colonial Period, Territory and Statehood, Ante-Bellum, Civil War, Reconstruction, Gilded Age: 1877-1900, Progressive Era, 1920s and 1930s, World War II, 1945-2000, Since 2000, Literature
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“The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.”
—Emma Goldman (1869–1940)
“[Men say:] “Don’t you know that we are your natural protectors?” But what is a woman afraid of on a lonely road after dark? The bears and wolves are all gone; there is nothing to be afraid of now but our natural protectors.”
—Frances A. Griffin, U.S. suffragist. As quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 4, ch. 19, by Susan B. Anthony and Ida Husted Harper (1902)
“Mississippi: I told you I was no good with a gun.
Bull: The trouble is Doc, Cole was in front of the gun. The safe place is behind Mississippi when he shoots that thing.”
—Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)