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    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
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    was a Mississippi farmer and businessman who was tried and acquitted of the June 1964 murders of three civil rights workers. Burrage owned the farm where...
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    Bukka White (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    prison – "Parchman Farm Blues" and "Fixin' to Die Blues" along with "When Can I Change My Clothes". After returning to Mississippi, where he and his wife...
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    Herman Tucker (category People from Philadelphia, Mississippi)
    Olen Burrage's farm. A jury acquitted Tucker in 1967. Tucker was a born in and was a lifelong resident of Neshoba County, Mississippi. He was a veteran...
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  • Kenny Wagner (category Prisoners who died in Mississippi detention)
    bootlegger in Mississippi, who murdered five people, including three lawmen. He escaped from custody numerous times, but ultimately died in prison. Wagner...
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    Fannie Lou Hamer (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    Mississippi to become registered voters and helped hundreds of disenfranchised people in her area through her work in programs like the Freedom Farm Cooperative...
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    Aberdeen School District. 1240 WWZQ-AM 105.3 WACR-FM U.S. Highway 45 Mississippi Highway 8 Mississippi Highway 25 Mississippi Highway 145 Burlington Northern...
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    authorities officially closed the case. Killen died in prison in January 2018. In the early 1960s, the state of Mississippi, as well as other local and state governments...
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    1971 Inverness tornado (category 1971 in Mississippi)
    tornado impacted the Mississippi Delta, killing 48 and injuring over 500. The tornado was the strongest tornado of the 1971 Mississippi Delta tornado outbreak...
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    Rodney is a ghost town in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. Most of the buildings are gone and the remaining structures are in various states...
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  • WGRM (1240 AM) was an American radio station licensed to serve Greenwood, Mississippi, United States. Established in 1938 by P.K. Ewing, the station was...
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    Son House (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    in Parchman Farm penitentiary, he developed his musicianship to the point that Charley Patton, the foremost blues artist of the Mississippi Delta region...
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    Frank Wall (American politician) (category Democratic Party members of the Mississippi House of Representatives)
    politician who served in the Mississippi House of Representatives. Elected three times from Amite County, he was a member of the local Farm Bureau and white supremacist...
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    Edward Earl Johnson (category 20th-century executions by Mississippi)
    pronounced dead at 12:06 a.m. on May 20, 1987, after being put to death in the gas chamber of what was then called Parchman Prison Farm. Johnson's final statements...
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  • show The Real L Word (2010–2012) as well as the documentary film L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin (2014), both of which aired on Showtime. A sequel television...
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    the farm labor in the county into the 1940s, when increasing mechanization reduced the need for field workers. Thousands of blacks left Mississippi in...
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    Medgar Evers (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    rights activist and soldier who was the NAACP's first field secretary in Mississippi. Evers, a United States Army veteran who served in World War II, was...
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  • Retrieved May 21, 2022. "Pan Am - Die komplette Serie [4 DVDs]". amazon.de. June 20, 2013. Retrieved May 21, 2022. Pan AM The Complete Series. Retrieved...
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    ..] I went to live in the countryside of the deep part of England, on a farm, did everything they did, and learned it. When the time came in Paris to...
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    Brothers. University Press of Mississippi. pp. 23–24. ISBN 978-1617036460. "Sawyer Fredericks Auditions For The Voice With "I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow""...
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    Finis L. Bates (category People from Itawamba County, Mississippi)
    five years. In 1878, St. Helen became ill, stating: I am dying. My name is John Wilkes Booth, and I am the assassin of President Lincoln. Get the picture...
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  • Rigsby sisters (category State Farm people)
    whistleblowers who proved to a Mississippi jury that State Farm committed fraud against the U.S. government. The sisters claim State Farm ignored or minimized wind...
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    Mark Twain (category Mississippi River)
    summers at Quarry Farm. They include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), The Prince and the Pauper (1881), Life on the Mississippi (1883), Adventures...
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    The United Farm Workers of America, or more commonly just United Farm Workers (UFW), is a labor union for farmworkers in the United States. It originated...
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    Thad Cochran (category Lawyers from Jackson, Mississippi)
    2018. Cochran died on May 30, 2019 in Oxford, Mississippi. William Thad Cochran was born on December 7, 1937, in Pontotoc, Mississippi, the son of Emma...
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  • Parchman Farm prison in Mississippi. While there, White witnessed the death of a friend and "got to wondering how a man feels when he dies". His lyrics...
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    Fraschilla died in 2008. Walt Disney's Corky and White Shadow (Official Mickey Mouse Club, 1955) Mouskemusicals (Official Mickey Mouse Club, 1956) I Am Not Now...
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    140, 20 of whom later died, where it dissipated over three hours after touching down. The tornado killed at least twenty farm owners in southeastern...
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  • Take This Hammer (category Mississippi John Hurt songs)
    (then newly invented) reel-to-reel tape at Lambert Camp, Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary), performed by three prisoners with axes: "Bull"...
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    Ross Barnett (category Baptists from Mississippi)
    of Mississippi from 1960 to 1964. He was a Southern Democrat who supported racial segregation. Born in Standing Pine in Leake County, Mississippi, Barnett...
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