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Port Gibson High School
Port Gibson High School is a public high school in unincorporated Claiborne County, Mississippi, with a Port Gibson. It opened in 1924. It is part of the Claiborne County School District. The student body is 99 percent African American. The old Port Gibson High School campus is now used by Port Gibson Middle School and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school's district includes all of Claiborne County, Text list/ref> including the employee residences of Alcorn State University. History Port Gibson High School was for whites only prior to integration. Black students had to go to Alcorn College High School or to Claiborne County Training School. In 1942 the latter got classes after the 10th grade. Port Gibson High School had a librarian and a music program. After it was integrated almost all the white students left the school. In 1995, Glendora Alexander-Muhammad who taught business education and computer science at Port Gibson High School planned to ac ...
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Unincorporated Area
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have no unincorporated areas at all or these are very rare: typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or List of uninhabited regions, uninhabited areas. By country Argentina In Argentina, the provinces of Chubut Province, Chubut, Córdoba Province (Argentina), Córdoba, Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos, Formosa Province, Formosa, Neuquén Province, Neuquén, Río Negro Province, Río Negro, San Luis Province, San Luis, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina, Santa Cruz, Santiago del Estero Province, Santiago del Estero, Tierra del Fuego Province, Argentina, Tierra del Fuego, and Tucumán Province, Tucumán have areas that are outside any municipality or commune. Australia Unlike many other countries, Australia has only local government in Aus ...
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Claiborne County, Mississippi
Claiborne County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 9,135. Its county seat is Port Gibson. The county is named after William Claiborne, the second governor of the Mississippi Territory. Claiborne County is included in the Vicksburg, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area as well as the Jackson-Vicksburg- Brookhaven, MS Combined Statistical Area. It is bordered by the Mississippi River on the west and the Big Black River on the north. As of the 2020 Census, this small county has the highest percentage of black or African American residents of any U.S. county, at 88.6% of the population. Located just south of the area known as the Mississippi Delta, this area also was a center of cotton plantations and related agriculture along the river, supported by enslaved African Americans. After emancipation, many generations of African Americans have stayed here because of family ties and having made the land their own. Claiborne ...
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Port Gibson, Mississippi
Port Gibson is a city in Claiborne County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,567 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. Port Gibson is the county seat of Claiborne County, which is bordered on the west by the Mississippi River. It is the site of the Claiborne County Courthouse. The first European settlers in Port Gibson were French colonists in 1729; it was part of their ''La Louisiane''. After the United States acquired the territory from France in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase, the town was chartered that same year. To develop cotton plantations in the American South, plantations in the area after Indian Removal of the 1830s, planters who moved to the state brought with them or imported thousands of enslaved African Americans from the Upper South, disrupting many families. Well before the Civil War, the majority of the county's population were enslaved blacks. Several notable people are natives of Port Gibson. The town saw action during the American Civi ...
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Claiborne County School District
The Claiborne County School District is a public school district based in Port Gibson, Mississippi (USA). The district's boundaries parallel that of Claiborne County. Text list/ref> They include the employee residences of Alcorn State University. Schools *Port Gibson High School *Port Gibson Middle School *A. W. Watson Jr. Elementary School Demographics 2006-07 school year There were a total of 1,899 students enrolled in the Claiborne County School District during the 2006–2007 school year. The gender makeup of the district was 50% female and 50% male. The racial makeup of the district was 99.53% African American and 0.47% White. 99.9% of the district's students were eligible to receive free lunch. Previous school years Accountability statistics See also *List of school districts in Mississippi *Chamberlain-Hunt Academy Chamberlain-Hunt Academy was a boarding school in Port Gibson, Mississippi. The school was founded in 1830 as Oakland College and closed in 2014. ...
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National Register Of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic value". A property listed in the National Register, or located within a National Register Historic District, may qualify for tax incentives derived from the total value of expenses incurred in preserving the property. The passage of the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) in 1966 established the National Register and the process for adding properties to it. Of the more than one and a half million properties on the National Register, 95,000 are listed individually. The remainder are contributing resources within historic districts. For most of its history, the National Register has been administered by the National Park Service (NPS), an agency within the U.S. Department of the Interior. Its goals are to help property owners and inte ...
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Alcorn State University
Alcorn State University (Alcorn State, ASU or Alcorn) is a public historically black land-grant university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. One of Alcorn's most notable graduates, Medgar Evers, a civil rights activist, graduated in 1952. Students and alumni of the college were part of the mid-twentieth century Civil Rights Movement, working to register voters and end inequality in the U.S. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Alcorn State's athletic teams known as the Braves and compete in the NCAA's Division I. All teams compete as members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC). History Alcorn State University was the first black land grant college in the country. Mississippi's Reconstructionist legislature, dominated by Republicans sympathetic to the cause of educating the formerly enslaved, was established on the site of Oaklan ...
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Claiborne County Training School
Claiborne may refer to: People Surname *Billy Claiborne (1860–1882), western outlaw *Lindy Boggs (Corinne Claiborne Boggs, 1916–2013), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana; U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican *Chris Claiborne (born 1978), former American football linebacker *Craig Claiborne (1920–2000), U.S. food writer and columnist for the ''New York Times'' *Ferdinand Claiborne (1773–1815), U.S. military officer most notable for his command during the Creek War and the War of 1812 *Harry E. Claiborne (1917–2004), United States District Judge, Nevada, from 1978 until his impeachment and removal in 1986 *James Robert Claiborne (1882–1944), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri *John Claiborne (1777–1808), member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia *John Claiborne (baseball executive) (born 1940), executive in American Major League Baseball and a president of the New England Sports Network (NESN) *John Francis Hamtra ...
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University Of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina. It was the first university press founded in the Southern United States. It is a member of the Association of University Presses (AUPresses) and publishes both scholarly and general-interest books and journals. According to its website, UNC Press advances "the University of North Carolina's triple mission of teaching, research, and public service by publishing first-rate books and journals for students, scholars, and general readers." It receives support from the state of North Carolina and the contributions of individual and institutional donors who created its endowment. Its headquarters are located in Chapel Hill. History In 1922, on the campus of the nation's oldest state university, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, thirteen educators and civic leaders met to charter a publishing house. Their creation, the University of ...
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Joseph Dunbar
Joseph Dunbar (born 1944) is an American scientist Ph.D. in Physiology whose specialization is diabetes. His major research interests are the relationships between insulin and glucagon and their physiology. Dunbar was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on August 27, 1944, to college-educated parents. His mother was a teacher, his father was an agricultural specialist who worked for the US government. He attended Alcorn College High School and graduated from Port Gibson High School, in 1960, where he took available advanced science courses. Like both his parents he attended Alcorn State University, where (encouraged by his biology and chemistry teachers) he decided to become a scientist. After graduating college, he taught music in a high school, and the following year enrolled at Texas Southern University, graduating in with a MS in biology in 1966, and he stayed on for a year as a biology instructor. During that time he married Agnes Estorge; the two married in 1967. They have two ...
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Adairius Barnes
Adairius Damone Barnes (born April 30, 1994) is a former American football cornerbackt. He played college football at Louisiana Tech. High school career Barnes attended Port Gibson High School where he lettered in football, track & field, baseball, and basketball. As a junior in 2010, he rushed the ball 17 times for 214 yards and five touchdowns, while recording 27 receptions for 647 yards and three touchdowns. As a senior in 2011, he rushed the ball 24 times for 390 yards and four touchdowns. he also was 15-of-28 for 428 yards and three touchdowns. He also recorded 22 receptions for 512 yards and six touchdowns. Also that season he recorded 45 tackles, 11 pass deflections, one interception, one forced fumble, four punt returns for 47 yards and two kickoff returns for 25 yards. For the season, he was ranked 24th on the Top 50 players in Mississippi. He was also named the team's best offensive player. College career Barnes then attended Louisiana Tech. As freshman in 2012, he rec ...
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Robert Turner (defensive Back)
Robert "Showtime" Turner, Jr. (March 22, 1971 – May 19, 1991) was an American college football player. Turner was born on March 22, 1971, in Vicksburg, Mississippi to Robert and Ruby Turner. He played quarterback for the Port Gibson High School Blue Waves; later he gained acclaim as a defensive back for Jackson State University. He earned Division I-AA All America and All-Southwestern Athletic Conference Honors in 1990. After a breakout season, Turner was shot on Sunday, May 19, 1991, outside a nightclub in Port Gibson. References External links * * * 1971 births 1991 deaths Sportspeople from Vicksburg, Mississippi African-American players of American football Players of American football from Mississippi American football defensive backs Jackson State Tigers football players Deaths by firearm in Mississippi 20th-century African-American sportspeople Murdered African-American people People murdere ...
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