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Where mississippi history happened. Over the 175 years many things occurred in this building within these halls that affected mississippis history and made us what we are today. From 1839 to 1903 this building served as mississippis state house, which was the witness of many important laws passed, visits by important statesmen across the south. A lot of important events took place here. For instance, mississippi ses ceded from the union passed in 18 0, most of our colleges and universities were chartered in this very building. Laws that granted rights to many of our scitizens and then again la...

Museum we are standing on the first floor in this National Historic landmark built in 1839, which makes this 175 years old this year. This is the oldest surviving building in jackson and a place where mississippi history happened. Over the 175 years many things occurred in this building within these halls that affected mississippis history made us what we are today. From 1839 to 1903 this building served as the Mississippi State house which was the witness of many important laws passed, visits by important statesmen across the south, a lot of important events took place here. For instance miss...

Of our citizens and later on laws that took away many of those rights. It is easy to say within these walls, mississippi is where it is today due to evenst that took place here. Were standing inside the old Capitol Building the preservation of the capitol. Obviously, the building resembles the greek temples in greece. We also discuss the architect of the building. He was a native of england. He did work in alabama and north carolina. He was the second architect hired. The state of mississippi fired the first architect because they did not like his work. He later went on to design the governors...

This article was first published by Workers World on May 7, 2020. It is being reposted now in the context of this year’s massive student uprising in solidarity with Palestine. May 4 and May 15, 2020, mark the 50th anniversaries of the murders of students at Kent State and Jackson…

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