#missississippi

[resilient-radical]

I just voted for Harris!!

[maps-and-elvis-and-zelda-n-shit]

If anyone needs a friend in mississippi to make a point its fine just don’t make it stupid

i hope im not only a mutual to u but also someone u can refer to in conversation as ur friend from overseas so u appear worldly and well-traveled

[badluc-k]

Things ive learned,

I still hate movies, i still dont like men, and im truly flying off of a hope and a prayer

[oneefin]

instead of inventing new si prefixes, scientists should take a cue from musicians

like, to go below "nano", instead of inventing "pico" (which is already a word for diced tomatoes) and etc, just call it "nanissimo", and then if you need more than that, its nanississimo, then nanissississimo, etc. abbreviate it using a curly n, then nn, then nnn, then ...

[xtruss]

What Happened When a Fearless Group of Mississippi Sharecroppers Founded Their Own City

Strike City was born after one small community left the plantation to live on their own terms

— September 11, 2023 | NOVA—BPS

A tin sign demarcated the boundary of Strike City just outside Leland, Mississippi. Photo by Charlie Steiner

In 1965 in the Mississippi Delta, things were not all that different than they had been 100 years earlier. Cotton was still King—and somebody needed to pick it. After the abolition of slavery, much of the labor for the region’s cotton economy was provided by Black sharecroppers, who were not technically enslaved, but operated in much the same way: working the fields of white plantation owners for essentially no profit. To make matters worse, by 1965, mechanized agriculture began to push sharecroppers out of what little employment they had. Many in the Delta had reached their breaking point.

In April of that year, following months of organizing, 45 local farm workers founded the Mississippi Freedom Labor Union. The MFLU’s platform included demands for a minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, medical coverage and an end to plantation work for children under the age of 16, whose educations were severely compromised by the sharecropping system. Within weeks of its founding, strikes under the MFLU banner began to spread across the Delta.

Five miles outside the small town of Leland, Mississippi, a group of Black Tenant Farmers led by John Henry Sylvester voted to go on strike. Sylvester, a tractor driver and mechanic at the A.L. Andrews Plantation, wanted fair treatment and prospects for a better future for his family. “I don’t want my children to grow up dumb like I did,” he told a reporter, with characteristic humility. In fact it was Sylvester’s organizational prowess and vision that gave the strikers direction and resolve. They would need both. The Andrews workers were immediately evicted from their homes. Undeterred, they moved their families to a local building owned by a Baptist Educational Association, but were eventually evicted there as well.

After two months of striking, and now facing homelessness for a second time, the strikers made a bold move. With just 13 donated tents, the strikers bought five acres of land from a local Black Farmer and decided that they would remain there, on strike, for as long as it took. Strike City was born. Frank Smith was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee worker when he went to live with the strikers just outside Leland. “They wanted to stay within eyesight of the plantation,” said Smith, now Executive Director of the African American Civil War Memorial and Museum in Washington, D.C. “They were not scared.”

Life in Strike City was difficult. Not only did the strikers have to deal with one of Missississippi’s coldest winters in history, they also had to endure the periodic gunshots fired by white agitators over their tents at night. Yet the strikers were determined. “We ain’t going out of the state of Mississippi. We gonna stay right here, fighting for what is ours,” one of them told a documentary film team, who captured the strikers’ daily experience in a short film called “Strike City.” “We decided we wouldn’t run,” another assented. “If we run now, we always will be running.”

But the strikers knew that if their city was going to survive, they would need more resources. In an effort to secure federal grants from the federal government’s Office of Economic Opportunity, the strikers, led by Sylvester and Smith, journeyed all the way to Washington D.C. “We’re here because Washington seems to run on a different schedule,” Smith told congressmen, stressing the urgency of the situation and the group’s needs for funds. “We have to get started right away. When you live in a tent and people shoot at you at night and your kids can’t take a bath and your wife has no privacy, a month can be a long time, even a day…Kids can’t grow up in Strike City and have any kind of a chance.” In a symbolic demonstration of their plight, the strikers set up a row of tents across the street from the White House.

John Henry Sylvester, left, stands outside one of the tents strikers erected in Washington, D.C. in April 1966. Photo by Rowland Sherman

“It was a good, dramatic, in-your-face presentation,” Smith told American Experience, nearly 60 years after the strikers camped out. “It didn’t do much to shake anything out of the Congress of the United States or the President and his Cabinet. But it gave us a feeling that we’d done something to help ourselves.” The protestors returned home empty-handed. Nevertheless, the residents of Strike City had secured enough funds from a Chicago-based organization to begin the construction of permanent brick homes; and to provide local Black children with a literacy program, which was held in a wood-and-cinder-block community center they erected.

The long-term sustainability of Strike City, however, depended on the creation of a self-sufficient economy. Early on, Strike City residents had earned money by handcrafting nativity scenes, but this proved inadequate. Soon, Strike City residents were planning on constructing a brick factory that would provide employment and building material for the settlement’s expansion. But the $25,000 price tag of the project proved to be too much, and with no employment, many strikers began to drift away. Strike City never recovered.

Still, its direct impact was apparent when, in 1965, Mississippi schools reluctantly complied with the 1964 Civil Rights Act by offering a freedom-of-choice period in which children were purportedly allowed to register at any school of their choice. In reality, however, most Black parents were too afraid to send their children to all-white schools—except for the parents living at Strike City who had already radically declared their independence . Once Leland’s public schools were legally open to them, Strike City kids were the first ones to register. Their parents’ determination to give them a better life had already begun to pay dividends.

Smith recalled driving Strike City’s children to their first day of school in the fall of 1970. “I remember when I dropped them off, they jumped out and ran in, and I said, ‘They don't have a clue what they were getting themselves into.’ But you know kids are innocent and they’re always braver than we think they are. And they went in there like it was their schoolhouse. Like they belonged there like everybody else.”

[dearyallfrommatt]

Monday, February 7, 2022

Monday, February 7, 2022

It’s one of those days. There isn’t a whole lot going on that’s grabbing me, and I’m still not unshook from this weekend. But it’s Monday and the week’s starting again, so let’s see what we got. A 5-4 decision by the United States Supreme Court overturned a lower court’s decision to implement a new redistricting plan for Alabama. Like the rest of us, the 2020 Census gave Alabama the opportunity…

[hugoscenteno]

i’m the 50 states of the usa anon and you definitely knew more i wouldve known. but lol “missississippi” is so funny to me, i only know how to spell it right because of a horse movie i watched as a kid

oh lmao i didn’t even notice😭 yeah it’s a fucking hard word they should remove some s’s

who knew horse movies could teach you state names uh

[dont-doubt-dopple]

Sharknado

Sharknado 2: The Second One

Sharknado 3: Oh No Not Again

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

Sharknado 5: Global Swarming

The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time

Trust me Bels, there’s so many stupid campy movies out there it’s ridiculous. And so many involve sharks. 🦈

This will seem stupid but only because the sixth one is coming out tonight: WildToonz Sharknado AU.

I,,, have never seen sharknado shdbd im sorry bb i can’t do it

[desertdollranch]

I have a wild theory. Hear me out.

Marie-Grace Gardner is actually Grandmary. 

Let’s look at Marie-Grace’s backstory. She was born in New Orleans, but her father is from somewhere in the northeast. After Mrs. Gardner and Daniel died, he took his daughter back to the northeast to practice medicine there for a few years. Then they return to New Orleans, but what’s keeping him there, honestly? He abhors slavery, so what if after the Civil War started, they just... went back to the northeast, so as to avoid being associated with the Confederacy?

Maybe he marries at some point before this, and has new children. Maybe he doesn’t want to raise them in a war-torn south.

Let’s say the family leaves New Orleans in 1861. Marie Grace would be 18. At that time, girls wouldn’t be moving out to go to college or work; she would have stayed with her father until she got married. It would be improper and unheard of for her to be left behind without a proper guardian. So she says goodbye to her beloved Cecile, and leaves for, let’s say... New York.

The war continues on, and to avoid the association with anything French and therefore Southern... or perhaps at her stern stepmother’s insistence.... Marie-Grace uses the anglicized form of her name, Mary. When she meets and marries William Edwards, she becomes Mary Edwards.  

If we assume that Grandmary is around 60 years old at the start of Samantha’s series, that would place the date of her birth in the mid-1840s. Marie-Grace is ten years old in 1853. 

If Grandmary was married in 1867 as stated in “Who’s That Man?” in Minute Mysteries 2, that would place her at 24 years old at the time of her marriage. Assuming Lydia was born shortly after, Samantha’s mother would be in her twenties at the time of Samantha’s birth. When Samantha is ten, Grandmary will be about 60.

She has Lydia, but she also has a son named Gardner. Her maiden name. And giving family names is common in that family: Gard and Cornelia name their son William, after Gard’s father. Samantha’s middle name is Mary. Samantha names her doll Lydia after her mother. 

Now imagine... maybe Marie-Grace’s new stepmother is a bit more wealthy than her husband, and is obsessed with all things proper, and making her stepdaughter into a proper young lady. Marie-Grace, so desperate for approval from a mother figure, falls into line. 

Eventually Marie-Grace/Grandmary sees her husband die, then her beloved daughter and son-in-law. Perhaps her father dies too. Her life, once full of love and closeness, is suddenly quite empty. In the face of all this tragedy... first her mother and brother, then her husband and daughter, then her father... she leans heavily on her stoic, stern Victorian sensibilities, and makes sure her granddaughter reflects this too. 

But... Samantha is a free spirit. She is growing up to embrace new ideas. She wants to run and play, to wear bloomers and ride a bicycle, to be friends with a girl of a different social class, to run through New York chasing a puppy before attending a suffragette rally. 

All of these events in Samantha’s life begin to crack the hardened scar tissue that has grown over Grandmary’s heart. She remembers her childhood full of love and belonging, and she wants that again. So she accepts the Admiral’s marriage proposal, and takes a marvelous cruise around the world. She always liked boats... her uncle Luc drove a steamboat, and she rode a boat up the Missississippi a few times in her childhood. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to live on a boat for a while. Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad to accept three servant girls as family considering that it only means more grandchildren. Maybe it would be nice and comforting to loosen the rules for a while and remember who she used to be.

I can’t think of anything that contradicts my theory. Marie-Grace Gardner is Grandmary.

[webuiltthiscity]

We unintentionally saved the most amazing food discovery for right before we left for the airport: a VEGAN TIKI BAR called No Bones Beach Club on Missississippi Ave. I got a vegan Benedict with "crab" cakes and a deep fried avocado. So creative and amazing!

[jon292929-blog1]

The LORD said, "I'm going to Break the Missississippi and all drugs. I will burn witch down, burn them down the river Bayou!!"918

[sirburlingtonfilmsalot-blog]

The Healing Powers of Music

One of the questions I’ve been asking myself for a very long time is why was I put here on earth. Feelings of worthlessness are hard to ignore, especially when it seems like we have little to no impact on the environment or politically.

Writing has helped me express these thoughts; which has helped with my depression and anxiety; I know this because I have had three existential breakdowns in my life.

The first one happened in my last year of high school. The second one happened a couple of weeks after I had resigned from a long-term job (that I hated) and I had another severe one when I was away from my husband and son for two and a half months last winter. I haven’t had one since (thank goodness), but now I know what triggers them and how to make them stop.

Now when I’m feeling down, I make sure that I have a playlist running that will help to calm me down, or at least put into words the feelings that I’m having.

I discovered this technique when I was researching Alzheimer’s. Around that same time, I had been writing a treatment for New Design, a Brampton Ontario band set to release their new four-song EP in the of summer 2019. I wrote the piece which focused entirely on the topic of Alzheimer’s, but it just wasn’t right for their song, which we were trying to portray through a music video. The song is about new found love and loss; it’s about young people who fall in love and kind of want to forget it all happened. My first treatment didn’t suit the age group, so I had to write a brand new pitch, which fit the themes and the experiences of college kids.

So I dug deep into my song lists, re-listening to all of my favorite pop punk and emo bands, reviewing the bands’ press kit, researching new emo and alternative rock bands, then I watched several music videos that explored similar themes.

I ended up writing three versions of the treatment and three versions of the short film script to go along with the treatment, which I submitted to the MVP Project Grant and the Work Film Project Grant fund. I’ll be writing a couple more grants over the next few months in addition to running a crowdfunding campaign if we secure one of the awards.

The next treatment I wrote was for up and coming singer-songwriter Eden Stirling, for her song titled UNKWN, which touches on the untimely death of her brother and the personal aftermath of that loss.

We explored the depression she carries and the stages of grief that swallowed her up.

She wants to help other people understand what it’s like, and give hope to people who are also mourning the loss of a loved one. We’re still working on gathering all of the elements we need to complete this for the grant submission, but I’m confident we’ll be able to submit this in Round 2 of the MVP grant process.

The last piece I wrote was for Steph Copeland and PEI’s Russ Louder for their single ‘Who You Gotta Love’ is a theatrically staged performance involving two women with lives that mirror each other. However one of them is old, and the other is young, yet they still keep making terrible decisions that affect their lives negatively. I would love to work with two amazing actresses to make this script come to life.

My short film script “Death Of A Dynasty,” is about a family of orphans forced to flee their home in an enchanted forest that is being invaded by cannibalistic zombies. I want to re-write it so that I can develop my characters and give them some more backstory and deeper emotions.

Now I’m laying down the groundwork for my next film about being a teenager in the female-driven sport of Ringette, a game that helped me gain confidence and win friends.

When I’m feeling sad, I write in my gratitude journal it also helps me to write down my own personal best accomplishments. Instead of comparing myself to what others have accomplished, I note how far I have come. I am grateful that I have paid off my student loans, that I have a house, am in a loving marriage, that I am an accomplished entrepreneur, that I get to be the mother to a beautiful little boy and that I was able to work as an Assistant Picture Editor for ‘Playmobil ’ which is my first full-length animated feature. I am also grateful that I was able to work on ‘Reel Women Seen’ which won the 2018 Jury Choice Award at the Diversity in Cannes Short Film Showcase and ‘Real Vikings’ which won two Canadian Screen Awards.

So if you’re feeling upset, sad or angry try one of these seven tips.

Measure your own Personal Best achievements. Don’t compare yourself to others. Start a gratitude journal.

Listen to music and uplifting podcasts when you need a pick me up.

Write! Write as much and as often as you can.

Talk to your friends and peers about what you are feeling; they will give you great advice to help you with your struggles.

Get outside, go for a walk, run around, get your heart rate up. Exercise has been proven to fight depression. So get moving!

Seek Therapy. If you are struggling with severe depression, then go to therapy. It works.

Count slowly to four (I learned this one from Daniel Tiger, because I’m a parent and that’s what we watch) One Missississippi, Two Mississippi, Three Mississippi, Four Mississippi. By the time you get to four you won’t be nearly as mad as you were four Mississippis ago.

[evanwoodwardmusic-blog]

Knowledge is power. Yeah just cause it’s in a book don’t make it true. By it open up your mind to endless possibilities. #read #readingisfundamental #reading (at Missississippi) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoadDsmHJn5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1q89cxr9yl7rc

[biggarhatstore]

Our favorite Missississippi barrel racer Laura Flowers adds a Steel Eighter to her collection. #biggarisbetter #custommade #customhat #cowgirl #barrelracer #canchaser #rodeo #mississippi #madeinusa #madeintexas #steel #eighterfromdecatur

[hottytoddynews]

Photo By HottyToddy.com

Abbeville is rightly proud of its most famous native citizens –– Peggie and Jennifer Gillom. In fact, a prominently placed sign in the city located just north of Oxford tells the world that Abbeville is the home of the nationally and internationally renowned sports legends.

What the Manning family is to football at Ole Miss, the Gillom sisters are to basketball at their University of Mississippi alma mater. Both Peggie and Jennifer Gillom earned places in the Ole Miss sports record books while playing for the Lady Rebels, both went on to careers in the WBA –– Jennifer as a player and Peggie as a coach –– and both have the distinction of being inducted into the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame, the Ole Miss Athletics Hall of Fame and the Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame.

Peggie Gillom / Photo Courtesy of Ole Miss Athletics

The Gillom sports legend, recognized in 2009 when the University named its new sports center the “Gillom Sports Center” in their honor, began with Peggie Gillom-Granderson. The senior of the two sisters remains the highest scorer and rebounder in Ole Miss basketball history, scoring 2,486 points and grabbing 1,271 rebounds in her years on the team. Peggie helped lead the team to a 103-23 record, three SEC West titles and four NCAA Tournament appearances.

Jennifer Gillom / Photo Courtesy of Ole Miss Athletics

Sister Jennifer “Grandmama” Gillom also made the sports record books as a Lady Rebel in the mid-1980s, scoring 2,186 points to become the second highest scorer in Ole Miss women’s basketball history, and the third highest overall, behind sister Peggie and Ole Miss men’s basketball legend John Straud, who scored 2,328 total points. Jennifer Gillom also helped to lead the United States Basketball Team to a gold medal in women’s basketball in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Today, basketball fans throughout the county recognize Abbeville, Mississippi, as the home of the Gilloms –– a fact that makes the city a true Hotty Toddy hometown.

Abbeville Town Hall / Photo By HottyToddy.com

Michael Harrelson was the editor of HottyToddy.com. This story first appeared on HottyToddy.com in July 2013.

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[southernsassphoto-blog]

CeCe is one of those kinds of people you want on your squad. Kindness just kinda radiates out of her and within the first 5 minutes of meeting her, you are drawn to her bubbly, easy going and fun loving personality.

It was really a no brainer to select CeCe as one of our reps. Cheer captain, Fitness Winner in Clarke County’s DYW, a member of numerous clubs, and having already been accepted to the University of Missississippi for the Fall 2018 semester, it is very clear to see why she was the perfect candidate for us.

However, we wanted you to really get to know and love this kid as much as we do, so we did a little interview with her. We think you will love what she says as much as we do ;)

What has been the greatest challenge for you in school? -being so involved in clubs, organizations, and sports and trying keep my grades up to where they needed to be able to graduate with high honors! And also that dreadful ACT🤦🏻‍♀️

What advice would you give next years seniors? -do not rush it away, because I thought I was so ready to leave high school and now that it’s approaching so fast I’m kind of nervous and it’s so crazy to think that I’m actually almost a young adult. But at the same time, aspire to be great never stop stop dreaming. I am a huge dreamer and I have planed for the future for a very long time and I can say it has prepared me to be ready to take this next step in my life!

What will you miss most about QHS?

-FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS AND HOMECOMING… hands down my favorite things about high school!

Who is/are your fave teachers and why?

-Debbie Reeves, Michelle Davis and Joette Smith because I grew up around them as a teachers daughter and granddaughter, so they knew what I was capable of and have never let me settle for less than my absolute best! I will always remember these three ladies and love them dearly! 💗 Your best friend, Maddie Johnson, was involved in a pretty serious accident this past Spring. In fact, one of the things that drew us to you was the passion you had in coming to her aide and creating a fundraiser to help with her medical expenses. Can you tell us a little about how that impacted you?

- When Maddie had her wreck, my whole world was shaken. I didn’t know what to do or say. I was in complete shock, because i never thought something that bad could happen to someone so close to me. I felt helpless and I felt like I needed to do something to help, because helping others is how I’ve always made myself feel better. Well I didn’t know what I wanted to do at first, and then Laura Chilsom (my boyfriend Briggs and Maddie’s fiancé Mase’s cousin) messaged me and asked me how I felt about doing shirts for Maddie and giving the profit to her family… I immediately said yes because that was the way I could help when I felt so helpless. We discussed designs and cost and it just took off from there!

How do you hope your fellow classmates will remember you?

- I hope my peers remember me for my fun and bubbly personality and as someone who they could always count on to be there when they needed, for anything they needed! I also hope they all remember the good times we always had together and the time that I made my “panther” for the homecoming float that looked more like a cow🙃

Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

- In ten years… wow. I see myself happily married with children, Working at QLE, raising my dogs, owning my petting zoo and still screaming HOTTY TODDY!❤️

Thank you CeCe!! #weheartcece #classof18