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STARKVILLE – After more than a century of courthouse-to-statehouse-to-Capitol Hill dominance in Mississippi politics, the Mississippi Democratic Party inexorably lost its stranglehold on the levers of power in the state
At the Santa Monica City Attorney’s Office, we have three particular black-and-white photographs from the civil rights era.
Republican Senator from Mississippi Trent Lott was born in Grenada County, Mississippi on October 9, 1941. His father was a sharecropper farmer who late...
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