Timeline of Jackson, Mississippi

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Jackson, Mississippi, USA.

19th century

• 1821
  • Mississippi capital relocated to Jackson from Natchez.^[1]
  • Graveyard established.
• 1822
  • January: State legislature in session.^[2]
  • Town laid out.^[3]
• 1838 - State Library established.^[4]
• 1839 - State House built.^[3]
• 1840
  • Vicksburg-Jackson railway begins operating.^[5]
  • Jackson chartered as a city.^[3]
  • Penitentiary built.^[6]
• 1842
  • James H. Boyd becomes mayor.
  • Governor's mansion built.^[6]
• 1845 - College opens in Eagle Hotel.^[7]
• 1846
  • City Hall built.^[1]
  • St. Peter's church dedicated.
• 1847 - Mississippi Institute for the Blind founded.^[6]
• 1858 - New Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad in operation.^[8]
• 1861
  • January 7: Secession Convention begins.^[5]
  • City becomes Confederate capital of Mississippi.^[6]
  • Confederate House (hotel) built.^[9]
  • Christy's Minstrels makes its annual visit.^[10]
• 1863
  • May 14: Battle of Jackson, Mississippi; Union Army takes city.
  • July 5–25: Siege of Jackson.^[3]
• 1864 - July 2–10: Occupation of Jackson by Union Army.^[5]
• 1866 - Daily Clarion newspaper begins publication.^[11]
• 1867
  • City charter revised.^[12]
  • Beth Israel Synagogue built.
• 1868
  • Black and Tan Convention held.^[3]
  • Colored Citizen’s Monthly begins publication.^[13]
• 1869
  • Mississippi State Fair begins.^[14]
  • Tougaloo College established near Jackson.
• 1870
  • People's Journal begins publication.^[13]
  • Mississippi Penitentiary Library established.^[4]
• 1882 - Natchez-Jackson railway begins operating.^[6]
• 1883 - Jackson College for Negroes in operation.^[3]
• 1885 - Yazoo City-Jackson railway begins operating.^[6]
• 1890
  • Constitutional Convention held.^[3]
  • Population: 5,920.^[3]
• 1891 - Confederate monument unveiled.^[6]
• 1892
  • Millsaps College opens.^[3]
  • Jackson Evening News begins publication.^[11]
• 1894 - Belhaven College for Young Ladies chartered.^[3]
• 1898 - Campbell College relocated to Jackson from Vicksburg.^[6]

20th century

• 1900
  • Cathedral of St. Peter the Apostle dedicated.
  • Population: 7,816.^[3]
• 1901 - Century Theatre opens.^[15]
• 1902
  • Mississippi Department of Archives and History and State Museum headquartered in city.^[6]
  • Art Study Club founded.^[16]
  • Population: 7,816.^[17]
• 1903 - Mississippi State Capitol building constructed.^[3]
• 1906 - YMCA organised locally^[18]
• 1910 - Population: 21,262.^[3]
• 1911 - Mississippi Art Association formed.^[16]
• 1914 - Country Club of Jackson organized.^[19]
• 1919 - Jackson Zoo opens.^[20]
• 1920 - The Clarion-Ledger newspaper in publication.
• 1920s - NAACP Jackson branch established.^[21]
• 1923 - Edwards Hotel built.^[9]
• 1925 - Woodrow Wilson Bridge built.
• 1926
  • Mississippi Library Commission headquartered in Jackson.^[22]
  • Glendale Methodist Church established.^[23]
• 1927 - Municipal Clubhouse Art Gallery opens (approximate date).^[6]
• 1929 - WJDX radio begins broadcasting.^[24]
• 1930
  • Hinds County Courthouse built.^[6]
  • Population: 48,282.
• 1938 - WSLI radio begins broadcasting.^[24]
• 1939
  • Jackson Advocate newspaper begins publication.^[11]
  • Pix Theatre built.
• 1940 - Population: 62,107.
• 1943 - Alamo Theater built.^[25]
• 1944 - Summers Hotel in business.^[9]
• 1945 - Jackson Photographic Society founded.^[26]
• 1947
  • Radio Service Company in business (approximate date).^[9]
  • Mississippi Progressive Voters' League headquartered in city (approximate date).^[21]
• 1949 - Allen C. Thompson becomes mayor.
• 1950
  • Trumpet Records in business.^[9][27]
  • Population: 98,271.
• 1953 - WLBT-TV (television) begins broadcasting.^[28]
• 1954 - WJTV (television) begins broadcasting.^[28]
• 1955
  • University of Mississippi Medical Center opens.^[29]
  • Ace Records in business.^[9]
• 1960 - Population: 144,422.^[30]
• 1961 - Freedom Rides begin.
• 1962
  • Jackson Veterans Administration Hospital opens.^[29]
  • Council of Federated Organizations headquartered in city.^[31]
  • Mississippi Coliseum built.
• 1963
  • May 28: Woolworth sit-in.^[32]
  • June 12: Medgar Evers assassinated.
• 1966
  • June 26: March Against Fear arrives from Memphis.
  • Subway Lounge opens.^[9]
• 1967 - Malaco recording studio in business.
• 1970
  • May 14: Jackson State killings.
  • Public schools desegregated.^[33]
  • Hinds Community College campus opens.^[34]
  • Population: 153,968.^[30]
• 1970s - Queen of Hearts music club opens.^[9]
• 1975
  • Jackson Mets baseball team relocates to Jackson.
  • Smith–Wills Stadium opens.
  • Lemuria Books in business.^[35]
• 1976 - Jackson Camellia Society founded.^[36]
• 1977 - Roman Catholic Diocese of Jackson established.
• 1978 - Southern Coalition for Educational Equity headquartered in city.^[31]
• 1979 - April: Flood.
• 1980 - Population: 202,895.^[30]
• 1983 - Dons nightclub in business.
• 1984 - Methodist WellsFest begins.^[37]
• 1985 - City adopts mayor-council form of government.^[1]
• 1989 - J. Kane Ditto becomes mayor.
• 1990
  • 100 Black Men of Jackson (nonprofit organization) founded.^[38]
  • Population: 196,637.^[30]
• 1991 - Garden Club of Jackson organized.^[39]
• 1997 - Harvey Johnson, Jr. becomes mayor.^[40]
• 1999 - City website online.^[41]

21st century

• 2000
  • Goldring / Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life founded.
  • Population: 184,256.
• 2002
  • Jackson Free Press begins publication.
  • Jackson Senators baseball team formed.
• 2005
  • Frank Melton becomes mayor.
  • Mississippi Children's Museum opens (December 4, 2005).
• 2006 - Eudora Welty House museum opens.
• 2008 - Mississippi Black Leadership Summit begins.^[42]
• 2009
  • Leslie B. McLemore becomes mayor, succeeded by Harvey Johnson, Jr.^[43]
  • Gregg Harper becomes U.S. representative for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district.^[44]
• 2010
  • The Help (movie) filmed in Jackson.^[45]
  • Population: 173,514.
• 2012 - Population Est.: 175,437
• 2013 - Chokwe Lumumba becomes mayor.^[46]
• 2014
  • Charles Tillman becomes interim mayor.^[47]
  • Tony Yarber elected mayor April 22.
• 2020 - State Flag is replaced

See also

• Jackson history
• List of mayors of Jackson, Mississippi
• List of Landmarks in Hinds County
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Hinds County, Mississippi

References

1. ^ "History of Jackson". City of Jackson, MS. Archived from the original on May 10, 2010. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
2. ^ Rowland 1907.
3. ^ Britannica 1910.
4. ^ Davies Project. "American Libraries before 1876". Princeton University. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
5. ^ "Mississippi History Timeline". Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
6. ^ Federal Writers' Project 1949.
7. ^ Edward Mayes (1899), "History of education in Mississippi", Washington, DC: Gov't Printing Office
8. ^ Andrew Morrison (1888). New Orleans and the New South. USA: Metropolitan Publishing Company.
9. ^ "List of Blues Trail Markers". Mississippi Blues Trail. Mississippi Blues Commission. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
10. ^ Richard N. Current. (1993). Encyclopedia of the Confederacy. New York:Simon & Schuster. Vol. 2, p. 836. ISBN 0132760231.
11. ^ "US Newspaper Directory". Chronicling America. Washington DC: Library of Congress. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
12. ^ Charter 1867.
13. ^ Julius Eric Thompson (1993), The Black press in Mississippi, 1865-1985, Gainesville: University Press of Florida, ISBN 0813011744
14. ^ "Southern Farm and Home", Vol. 1, no. 12, October 1870, pp. 4 v, hdl:2027/njp.32101064477407
15. ^ "CinemaTreasures.org". Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
16. ^ American Art Annual. NY: American Federation of Arts. 1916. hdl:2027/uc1.b3063397
17. ^ "Mississippi", "Rand-McNally Official Railway Guide and Hand Book", Chicago: American Railway Guide Co., 1902, hdl:2027/uva.x000764532
18. ^ "Our History". Metropolitan YMCA's of Mississippi. Archived from the original on April 7, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
19. ^ "History". Country Club of Jackson. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
20. ^ Vernon N. Kisling, Jr. (ed.) (2001). "Zoological Gardens of the United States (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
21. ^ John Dittmer (1994), Local people: the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0252021029
22. ^ "Mississippi Library Commission". Archived from the original on June 13, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
23. ^ "Wells Church". Archived from the original on December 8, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
24. ^ Jack Alicoate (ed.) (1939), "Standard Broadcasting Stations of the United States: Mississippi", "Radio Annual", New York: Radio Daily, OCLC 2459636
25. ^ "Historic Theatre Inventory". Maryland, USA: League of Historic American Theatres. Archived from the original on July 21, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
26. ^ "Jackson Photographic Society". Retrieved June 14, 2013.
27. ^ Marc Ryan (2004), Trumpet Records: Diamonds on Farish Street, University Press of Mississippi, ISBN 9781578066063
28. ^ Charles A. Alicoate (ed.) (1960), "Television Stations: Mississippi", "Radio Annual and Television Year Book", New York: Radio Daily Corp., OCLC 10512206
29. ^ Smith 2005.
30. ^ "Population of the 100 Largest Cities and Other Urban Places in the United States: 1790 to 1990", US Census Bureau, 1998
31. ^ Nina Mjagkij (ed.) (2001), Organizing Black America: an Encyclopedia of African American Associations, Garland, ISBN 9780815323099
32. ^ "Miss. honors 50th anniversary of its Woolworth's sit-in". USA Today. June 12, 2013.
33. ^ Wesley 2005.
34. ^ Hinds Community College catalog. 1998.
35. ^ "About Us". Jackson MS: Lemuria Books. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
36. ^ "Jackson Camellia Society". GuideStar. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
37. ^ "WellsFest". Jackson: Wells United Methodist Church. Archived from the original on September 30, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
38. ^ "History". 100 Black Men of Jackson. Archived from the original on August 11, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
39. ^ "History". Garden Club of Jackson. Archived from the original on August 4, 2012. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
40. ^ "Harvey Johnson: First Black Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. 1997. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
41. ^ "Jackson Flies Into Cyberspace With New Website", Clarion Ledger, January 11, 1999
42. ^ "About Us: Mississippi Black Leadership Summit". Mississippi: One Voice. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
43. ^ "Meet the Mayors". Washington, DC: United States Conference of Mayors. Archived from the original on June 27, 2008. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
44. ^ "Mississippi". Official Congressional Directory. 1991/1992- : S. Pub. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 2009. hdl:2027/uc1.c099985288. – via HathiTrust
45. ^ New York Times 2013.
46. ^ "Jackson, MS News, Weather and Sports - WAPT Channel 16"
47. ^ "Jackson Mayor Chokwe Lumumba, 66, Has Died; Tillman Acting Mayor"

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• "Jackson, Mississippi". De Bow's Review. 1859.
• Jackson (Miss (1867). Charter of the City of Jackson
• Vol. 13.
• "Jackson, Mississippi". Southern Homeseeker's Guide: And Winter Resorts on the Southern Division of the Illinois Central Railroad. Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 1889.

Published in the 20th century

• Dunbar Rowland (ed.) (1907), "Jackson", "Encyclopedia of Mississippi history", Madison, Wisconsin: S. A. Brant, hdl:2027/nyp.33433081846085
• Dudley Weldon Woodard (1909), "Negro progress in a Mississippi town: being a study of conditions in Jackson, Mississippi", Cheyney, Pa.: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race
• Vol. 15. 1910. pp. 111–112.
• "Jackson Miss.". Automobile Blue Book. New York: Automobile Blue Book Publishing Co. 1919. + Map
• Federal Writers' Project (1949), "Jackson", "Mississippi; a guide to the Magnolia State", New York: Viking, OCLC 478887
• George Thomas Kurian (1994), "Jackson, Mississippi", "World Encyclopedia of Cities", Vol. 1: North America, Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, – via Internet Archive (fulltext)
• Ory Mazar Nergal (ed.) (1980), "Jackson, MS", "Encyclopedia of American Cities", New York: E.P. Dutton
• Olurominiyi O. Ibitayo (1999). "The Quality of Low-Income Neighborhoods in Jackson, Mississippi: The Residents' Viewpoints". Humboldt Journal of Social Relations. 25 (2): 97–125. JSTOR 23263371

Published in the 21st century

• David Barton Smith (2005). "The Politics of Racial Disparities: Desegregating the Hospitals in Jackson, Mississippi". Milbank Quarterly. 83
• Joan Marshall Wesley et al. (2005). "Urban Segregation in the Deep South: Race, Education, and Planning Ethics in Jackson, Mississippi". Race, Gender & Class. 12
• "36 Hours in Jackson, Miss.". New York Times. May 30, 2013.

External links

• Items related to Jackson, Mississippi, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
• Materials related to Jackson, Mississippi, various dates (via Library of Congress, Prints & Photos Division)
• "Jackson Clubs, Organizations and Support Groups". Jackson-Hinds Library System. 2005. Archived from the original on 2013-08-24.