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Mississippi Primary Sources Gallopade International

The Mississippi Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source documents that are relevant to the history in Mississippi.

The Mississippi Primary Sources will help your students build common core skills including:

Analysis
Critical Thinking
Point of View
Compare and Contrast
Order of Events
And Much More!

Perfect for gallery walks and literature circles! Great research and reference materials!

The 20 Mississippi Primary Sources are:
Photograph of Jefferson Davis, U. S. Senator from Mississippi and President of the Confederate States of America photo circa 1860
Painting entitled Choctaw Village near the Chefuncte, by Francois Bernard 1869
Painting entitled Siege of Vicksburg by Kurz and Allison siege ended July 1863 painting dated 1888
Photograph of child workers employed by a seafood packing company in Pass Christian, Mississippi children shucked oysters and tended babies 1911
Photograph showing three African American men and one boy posing with a horse-drawn wagon filled with bales of "King Cotton" - Greenwood, Mississippi 1920
Photograph of day laborers picking cotton near Clarksdale, Mississippi 1939
Photograph of African American man going into the "colored entrance" of a movie theater Belzoni, Mississippi Delta 1939
Painting by Jacob Lawrence, part of 60-panel Great Migration series depicting migration of African Americans from the rural South to the urban North 1940
Photograph of James Meredith walking to class accompanied by U. S. marshals Meredith was first African American student to attend the University of Mississippi 1962
Photograph of President John F. K