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Genealogy Query - BARNETT : ROEDIGER
... 10/14/57 at the Salvation Army Home and Hospital in Birmingham, AL. My birth mother is Tommie Jean Barnett of Neshoba County in Mississippi, and she named me Tammie Lynn Barnett. I was placed with my adoptive family in February of 1958 and given the ... Comment?
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Southern Gaming Summit: Tribal gaming growing in the South
... November 2010, is the Bok Homa Casino in Jones County. It is their first venture outside the Choctaw land in Neshoba County. The new 27,000 square foot facility has more than 750 slot machines and a quick serve restaurant. "It's more about the ... Comment?
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William E. White: American Crisis
... 15, 1963, killing four African-American children. In June 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in Neshoba County, Miss. In August 1966, Charles Whitman killed 15 people on the campus of the University of Texas. I do not minimize the ... Comment?
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... in Meridian. Lewis was 10 days old when her father, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman disappeared in Neshoba County in June of 1964. The case of the missing civil rights workers drew international attention and their bodies were found in an ... Comment?
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Angela Lewis to speak at Meridian civil rights conference
... in Meridian. Lewis was 10 days old when her father, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman disappeared in Neshoba County in June of 1964. The case of the missing civil rights workers drew international attention and their bodies were found in an ... Comment?
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Hood supports Indian adoption law
... non-Indian couple. The court found that despite giving birth about 200 miles from the Choctaw reservation in Neshoba County, the Indian Child Welfare Act still gave jurisdiction over adoptions to tribal courts. "The tribal court ultimately ... Comment?
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Attorney General Jim Hood
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... non-Indian couple. The court found that despite giving birth about 200 miles from the Choctaw reservation in Neshoba County, the Indian Child Welfare Act still gave jurisdiction over adoptions to tribal courts. "The tribal court ultimately approved ... Comment?
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AG Jim Hood supports Indian adoption law
... non-Indian couple. The court found that despite giving birth about 200 miles from the Choctaw reservation in Neshoba County, the Indian Child Welfare Act still gave jurisdiction over adoptions to tribal courts. "The tribal court ultimately ... Comment?
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Hood supports Indian adoption law
... non-Indian couple. The court found that despite giving birth about 200 miles from the Choctaw reservation in Neshoba County, the Indian Child Welfare Act still gave jurisdiction over adoptions to tribal courts. "The tribal court ultimately approved ... Comment?
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State of Miss., Choctaws want federal adoption act left intact
... The court found that in spite of giving birth some 200 miles away from the Choctaw reservation in Neshoba County, the Indian Child Welfare Act still applied, therefore giving jurisdiction over the adoption proceedings to the Choctaw tribal courts. ... Comment?
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Sadly, China Does Not Acknowledge Civil Rights
... Miss. You also might know about it if you recreate or vacation or live in this wooded, swampy area largely in Neshoba County, which has a camping area and trails and lovely homes. Otherwise, you probably have not heard of it. But it is sacred ... Comment?
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Republican "Rebranding" vs. Reality
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... From Richard Nixon's "Law 'n' Order" conservatism , Ronald Reagan's post-convention "states rights" speech in Neshoba County, Mississippi , and Willie Horton, to "Angry White Men," Newt Gingrich , and the rise of the tea party, it was a winning ... Comment?
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Miss. set to add terrorism to death penalty law
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... and the June 1964 slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County. Could acts such as those be considered "terrorism" under the new law? Steffey said the law could not apply retroactively in old ... Comment?
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Gov. Phil Bryant plans to sign bill adding terrorism to death penalty law
... and the June 1964 slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County. Could acts such as those be considered "terrorism" under the new law? Steffey said the law could not apply retroactively in old ... Comment?
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Miss. set to add terrorism to death penalty law
... and the June 1964 slayings of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in Neshoba County. Could acts such as those be considered "terrorism" under the new law? Steffey said the law could not apply retroactively in old ... Comment?
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Civil rights marker ripped down, stolen
The historical marker commemorating the 1964 deaths of three civil rights workers in Neshoba County has been ripped down and stolen. Comment?
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Shame on NOW for co-opting name of Civil Rights Struggle
... 1964 in Mississippi. He was there when they discovered the remains of the the three civil rights workers in Neshoba county. The cowardly murder of those three young people shaped his politics for the rest of his life and shaped how I, as a ... Comment?
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Collinsville Recreation Complex
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... optimistic that once the new recreation facility opens that number will increase. "We already have kids from Neshoba County and Newton County that play with us," said Wallace. "We hope that we grow from 500 or 600 kids. We hope to be able to expand ... Comment?
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Olen Burrage, suspect in 1964 Klan slayings, dies
... Funeral Home Chapel said. The funeral home did not release a cause of death. Burrage owned land in Neshoba County in central Mississippi where the three civil rights workers were buried under an earthen dam after KKK members killed them in 1964. He ... Comment?
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Joanne Ragsdale: Native American story shared in this children's book
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... remained in Mississippi were the forefathers of the current Mississippi band of Choctaws living primarily in Neshoba County and now numbering about 9,000. Tingle's tale takes place before the 1830 treaty, when only the River Bok Chitto (presently ... Comment?
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