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Views Read View source View history. Submit Wiki Content Report a Problem. County Facts. County seat:. Jackson, Raymond. Parent County s :. Choctaw Cession [1]. Neighboring Counties. Location Map. General compliance by Blues and jazz singer Cassandra Wilson was born in Jackson in , and rap musician David Banner Levell Crump is a Jackson native whose lyrics frequently comment on Mississippi issues.
Musicians not affiliated with distinctively southern forms of music also hail from Jackson. Conductor and composer Lehman Engel, born in , grew up in the city, as did innovative contemporary musician Milton Babbitt. The Mississippi Art Association began in to solicit work for the state fair, and its efforts eventually led to the creation of the Mississippi Museum of Art. Painter William Hollingsworth, born in , has been called the Faulkner of Visual Arts because of his range of work about the people of Mississippi.
Marie Hull did extraordinary work while teaching from her home in Jackson. Many artists had affiliations with Jackson colleges. Architect N. Overstreet and his firm, working in Jackson from the s through the s, helped define the look of the city, creating many modernist buildings of reinforced concrete. With about one thousand people per square mile, Hinds had the densest population in the state as well as the most whites and second-most African Americans.
Hinds had the second-highest number of industrial workers more than twenty-five hundred , and it still had more than sixty-six hundred farms. Sixty percent of the population was white, and almost 50 percent had a high school education or more, the highest percentage in the state.
Fewer than 4, members of the labor force of more than 80, were involved in agriculture. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People NAACP and other groups had operated in Jackson for years, with voting rights work and the development of educational institutions among the most notable efforts. In the early s protesters began a series of efforts to integrate all-white libraries, lunch counters, bus stations, other business locations, churches, and public facilities. In Freedom Riders dramatized transportation segregation and many spent part of the summer in jail.
Clark, Gilbert Mason, and Henry T. Wingate, among many others. Jackson was also notable for opposition to civil rights work. While civil rights activists started Womanpower Unlimited to help jailed activists, Jackson was also the home of Women for Constitutional Government, a southern organization that condemned federal efforts to desegregate schools. While the Jackson Chamber of Commerce called for obeying federal laws requiring desegregation, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, also headquartered in the city, worked to maintain segregation.
In the bombing of the Temple Beth Israel, where Rabbi Perry Nussbaum had criticized racial segregation, demonstrated further divisions in the community. In recent years, Hinds County has become the center for an expanding institutional base for a multiethnic Mississippi. Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason wrote a memo to his employees Thursday basically saying they need to get on board with his leadership or "get out of my way.
Hinds County Sheriff Victor Mason is facing a second federal lawsuit on allegations of sexual harassment by what is now three women. We asked Mississippi voters which issues they want candidates to talk about. Lee Vance, who retired as chief of the Jackson Police Department in December after 30 years on the force, has filed to run in the Hinds County sheriff's race. User agreement and privacy statement.
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