Timeline Of Jackson, Mississippi
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, USA.
19th century
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- 1821
- 1822
- January: State legislature in session.
- Town laid out.
- 1838 - State Library established.
- 1839 - State House built.
- 1840
- Vicksburg-Jackson railway begins operating.
- Jackson chartered as a city.
- Penitentiary built.
- 1842
- James H. Boyd becomes mayor.
- Governor's mansion built.
- 1845 - College opens in Eagle Hotel.
- 1846
- City Hall built.
- St. Peter's church dedicated.
- 1847 - Mississippi Institute for the Blind founded.
- 1858 - New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad in operation.
- 1861
- January 7: Secession Convention begins.
- City becomes Confederate capital of Mississippi.
- Confederate House (hotel) built.
- Christy's Minstrels makes its annual visit.
- 1863
- May 14: Battle of Jackson, Mississippi; Union Army takes city.
- July 5–25: Siege of Jackson.
- 1864 - July 2–10: Occupation of Jackson by Union Army.
- 1866 - Daily Clarion newspaper begins publication.
- 1867
- City charter revised.
- Beth Israel Synagogue built.
- 1868
- Black and Tan Convention held.
- Colored Citizen’s Monthly begins publication.
- 1869
- Mississippi State Fair begins.
- Tougaloo College established near Jackson.
- 1870
- People's Journal begins publication.
- Mississippi Penitentiary Library established.
- 1882 - Natchez-Jackson railway begins operating.
- 1883 - Jackson College for Negroes in operation.
- 1885 - Yazoo City-Jackson railway begins operating.
- 1890
- Constitutional Convention held.
- Population: 5,920.
- 1891 - Confederate monument unveiled.
- 1892
- Millsaps College opens.
- Jackson Evening News begins publication.
- 1894 - Belhaven College for Young Ladies chartered.
- 1898 - Campbell College relocated to Jackson from Vicksburg.
20th century
- 1900
- Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle dedicated.
- Population: 7,816.
- 1901 - Century Theatre opens.
- 1902
- Mississippi Department of Archives and History and State Museum headquartered in city.
- Art Study Club founded.
- Population: 7,816.
- 1903 - Mississippi State Capitol building constructed.
- 1906 - YMCA organised locally
- 1910 - Population: 21,262.
- 1911 - Mississippi Art Association formed.
- 1914 - Country Club of Jackson organized.
- 1919 - Jackson Zoo opens.
- 1920 - The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in publication.
- 1920s - NAACP Jackson branch established.
- 1923 - Edwards Hotel built.
- 1925 - Woodrow Wilson Bridge built.
- 1926
- Mississippi Library Commission headquartered in Jackson.
- Glendale Methodist Church established.
- 1927 - Municipal Clubhouse Art Gallery opens (approximate date).
- 1929 - WJDX radio begins broadcasting.
- 1930
- Hinds County Courthouse built.
- Population: 48,282.
- 1938 - WSLI radio begins broadcasting.
- 1939
- Jackson Advocate newspaper begins publication.
- Pix Theatre built.
- 1940 - Population: 62,107.
- 1943 - Alamo Theater built.
- 1944 - Summers Hotel in business.
- 1945 - Jackson Photographic Society founded.
- 1947
- Radio Service Company in business (approximate date).
- Mississippi Progressive Voters' League headquartered in city (approximate date).
- 1949 - Allen C. Thompson becomes mayor.
- 1950
- Trumpet Records in business.
- Population: 98,271.
- 1953 - WLBT-TV (television) begins broadcasting.
- 1954 - WJTV (television) begins broadcasting.
- 1955
- University of Mississippi Medical Center opens.
- Ace Records in business.
- 1960 - Population: 144,422.
- 1961 - Freedom Rides begin.
- 1962
- Jackson Veterans Administration Hospital opens.
- Council of Federated Organizations headquartered in city.
- Mississippi Coliseum built.
- 1963
- May 28: Woolworth sit-in.
- June 12: Medgar Evers assassinated.
- 1966
- June 26: March Against Fear arrives from Memphis.
- Subway Lounge opens.
- 1967 - Malaco recording studio in business.
- 1970
- May 14: Jackson State killings.
- Public schools desegregated.
- Hinds Community College campus opens.
- Population: 153,968.
- 1970s - Queen of Hearts music club opens.
- 1975
- Jackson Mets baseball team relocates to Jackson.
- Smith–Wills Stadium opens.
- Lemuria Books in business.
- 1976 - Jackson Camellia Society founded.
- 1977 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson established.
- 1978 - Southern Coalition for Educational Equity headquartered in city.
- 1979 - April: Flood.
- 1980 - Population: 202,895.
- 1983 - Dons nightclub in business.
- 1984 - Methodist WellsFest begins.
- 1985 - City adopts mayor-council form of government.
- 1989 - J. Kane Ditto becomes mayor.
- 1990
- 100 Black Men of Jackson (nonprofit organization) founded.
- Population: 196,637.
- 1991 - Garden Club of Jackson organized.
- 1997 - Harvey Johnson, Jr. becomes mayor.
- 1999 - City website online.
21st century
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- 2000
- Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life founded.
- Population: 184,256.
- 2002
- Jackson Free Press begins publication.
- Jackson Senators baseball team formed.
- 2005
- Frank Melton becomes mayor.
- Mississippi Children's Museum opens (December 4, 2005).
- 2006 - Eudora Welty House museum opens.
- 2008 - Mississippi Black Leadership Summit begins.
- 2009
- Leslie B. McLemore becomes mayor, succeeded by Harvey Johnson, Jr.
- Gregg Harper becomes U.S. representative for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district.
- 2010
- The Help (movie) filmed in Jackson.
- Population: 173,514.
- 2012 - Population Est.: 175,437
- 2013 - Chokwe Lumumba becomes mayor.
- 2014
- Charles Tillman becomes interim mayor.
- Tony Yarber elected mayor April 22.
- 2020 - State Flag is replaced
See also
- Jackson history
- List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi
- List of Landmarks in Hinds County
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Hinds County, Mississippi
References
- ^ "History of Jackson". City of Jackson, MS. Archived from the original on May 10, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Rowland 1907.
- ^ Britannica 1910.
- ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Mississippi History Timeline". Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Federal Writers' Project 1949.
- ^ Edward Mayes (1899), History of education in Mississippi, Washington, DC: Gov't Printing Office, OL 25525974M
- ^ Andrew Morrison (1888). New Orleans and the New South. USA: Metropolitan Publishing Company.
- ^ "List of Blues Trail Markers". Mississippi Blues Trail. Mississippi Blues Commission. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Richard N. Current. (1993). Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York:Simon & Schuster. Vol. 2, p. 836. ISBN 0132760231.
- ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Charter 1867.
- ^ Julius Eric Thompson (1993), The Black press in Mississippi, 1865-1985, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ISBN 0813011744
- ^ Southern Farm and Home, vol. 1, Macon, Georgia, October 1870, pp. 4 v, hdl:2027/njp.32101064477407
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "CinemaTreasures.org". Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ American Art Annual. NY: American Federation of Arts. 1916. hdl:2027/uc1.b3063397.
- ^ "Mississippi", Rand-McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book, Chicago: American Railway Guide Co., 1902, hdl:2027/uva.x000764532
- ^ "Our History". Metropolitan YMCA's of Mississippi. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "History". Country Club of Jackson. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr., ed. (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ John Dittmer (1994), Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252021029
- ^ "Mississippi Library Commission". Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Wells Church". Jackson. Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Jack Alicoate, ed. (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Mississippi", Radio Annual, New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
- ^ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Jackson Photographic Society". Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ Marc Ryan (2004), Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 9781578066063
- ^ Charles A. Alicoate, ed. (1960), "Television Stations: Mississippi", Radio Annual and Television Year Book, New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
- ^ Smith 2005.
- ^ Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990, US Census Bureau, 1998
- ^ Nina Mjagkij, ed. (2001), Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, ISBN 9780815323099
- ^ "Miss. honors 50th anniversary of its Woolworth's sit-in". USA Today. June 12, 2013.
- ^ Wesley 2005.
- ^ Hinds Community College catalog. 1998.
- ^ "About Us". Jackson MS: Lemuria Books. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Jackson Camellia Society". GuideStar. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "WellsFest". Jackson: Wells United Methodist Church. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "History". 100 Black Men of Jackson. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "History". Garden Club of Jackson. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Harvey Johnson: First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. 1997. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Jackson Flies Into Cyberspace With New Website", Clarion Ledger, January 11, 1999
- ^ "About Us: Mississippi Black Leadership Summit". Mississippi: One Voice. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
- ^ "Mississippi". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2009. hdl:2027/uc1.c099985288 – via HathiTrust.
- ^ New York Times 2013.
- ^ "Jackson, MS News, Weather and Sports - WAPT Channel 16".
- ^ "Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, 66, Has Died; Tillman Acting Mayor".
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- "Jackson, Mississippi". De Bow's Review. USA. 1859.
- Jackson (Miss (1867). Charter of the City of Jackson.
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (9th ed.). 1881. .
- "Jackson, Mississippi". Southern Homeseeker's Guide: And Winter Resorts on the Southern Division of the Illinois Central Railroad. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1889.
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- Published in the 20th century
- Dunbar Rowland, ed. (1907), "Jackson", Encyclopedia of Mississippi history, Madison, Wisconsin: S. A. Brant, hdl:2027/nyp.33433081846085
- Dudley Weldon Woodard (1909), Negro progress in a Mississippi town: being a study of conditions in Jackson, Mississippi, Cheyney, Pa.: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, OL 13501287M
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. pp. 111–112. .
- "Jackson Miss.". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1919. + Map
- Federal Writers' Project (1949), "Jackson", Mississippi; a guide to the Magnolia State, New York: Viking, OCLC 478887
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: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Jackson, Mississippi", World Encyclopedia of Cities, vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, OL 1431653M – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
- Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Jackson, MS", Encyclopedia of American Cities, New York: E.P. Dutton, OL 4120668M
- Olurominiyi O. Ibitayo (1999). "The Quality of Low-Income Neighborhoods in Jackson, Mississippi: The Residents' Viewpoints". Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 25 (2): 97–125. JSTOR 23263371.
- Published in the 21st century
- David Barton Smith (2005). "The Politics of Racial Disparities: Desegregating the Hospitals in Jackson, Mississippi". Milbank Quarterly. 83.
- Joan Marshall Wesley; et al. (2005). "Urban Segregation in the Deep South: Race, Education, and Planning Ethics in Jackson, Mississippi". Race, Gender & Class. 12.
- "36 Hours in Jackson, Miss". New York Times. May 30, 2013.
External links
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- "Jackson Clubs, Organizations and Support Groups". Jackson-Hinds Library System. 2005. Archived from the original on 2013-08-24.
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