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  Sumner - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Hendersonville, city, Sumner County, northern Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville; settled 1770s, incorporated 1968.
Sumner, Charles (1811-74), American statesman, known for his stand against slavery.
Sumner, James Batcheller (1887-1955), American biochemist and Nobel Prize winner.
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 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1851-1877 > The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
The inspiration for this clash came three days earlier when Senator Charles Sumner, a Massachusetts antislavery Republican, addressed the Senate on the explosive issue of whether Kansas should be admitted to the Union as a slave state or a free state.
If he had believed Sumner to be a gentleman, he might have challenged him to a duel.
Sumner recovered slowly and returned to the Senate, where he remained for another 18 years.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/The_Caning_of_Senator_Charles_Sumner.htm   (426 words)

  
 U.S. Senate: Art & History Home > Historical Minutes > 1851-1877 > Charles Sumner Dies
The mortally ill senator said that his only regrets about dying were that he had not finished preparing his collected writings for publication and that the Senate had not yet passed his civil rights bill.
The attack transformed Sumner into a northern hero, solving his political problems at home, and effectively guaranteeing him a lifetime seat in the Senate.
Sumner would surely have been pleased to know that he has been memorialized on all three floors of the U.S. Capitol's Senate wing.
www.senate.gov /artandhistory/history/minute/Charles_Sumner_Dies.htm   (450 words)

  
 Kosciusko Real Estate - United Realty, Your Residential Specialist in Central Mississippi, C.L. Manderson, President - ...
Sumner put into motion what college officials refer to as the most benevolent gift to education they have ever known.
Sumner's death, was placed in a trust with the interest to be used toward college education for people of Central Mississippi.
Sumner and her late husband have created for residents of Kosciusko-Attala County is unique.
www.united-realty.com /sumnerfoundation.html   (325 words)

  
 Mississippi Delta Literary Tour
Maude Schuyler Clay is a fifth-generation native of the Delta town of Sumner, Mississippi.
Spooney Kenter is a native of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Carver Randle is a native of Indianola, Mississippi, and is on the board of the B. King Foundation, which is bringing a long-awaited B. King Museum to the legendary bluesman’s hometown.
www.olemiss.edu /depts/south/literarytour/people.html   (1225 words)

  
 Sumner
Sumner, Kansas, United States [County]; population was 25,841 in 1990; housing units was 10,769 in 1990; location is 37°14'N 97°29'W; land area is 1,181.90 square miles (756,415 acres); water area is 2.97 square miles (1,902 acres); FIPS code is 191 [SourceCBP]
Sumner, Mississippi, United States [Town]; population was 368 in 1990; housing units was 146 in 1990; location is 33°58'N 90°22'W; land area is 0.56 square miles (359 acres); FIPS code is 71520 [SourceCBP]
Sumner, Tennessee, United States [County]; population was 103,281 in 1990; housing units was 39,807 in 1990; location is 36°28'N 86°27'W; land area is 529.35 square miles (338,786 acres); water area is 13.81 square miles (8,837 acres); FIPS code is 165 [SourceCBP]
www.placesnamed.com /S/u/sumner.asp   (700 words)

  
 My Family
Anne McMullen was born in 1877 in Sumner County ?, Mississippi.
Lenora McMullen was born in 1879 in Mississippi.
McMullen was born in 1879 in Sumner County ?, Mississippi.
www.fortunecity.com /millennium/hindmarsh/384/d670.htm   (3121 words)

  
 Sumner Mississippi Profile and Resource Guide, City or community of Sumner, Mississippi Facts, Information, Relocation, ...
The distance from Sumner to Washington DC is 850 miles.
The distance to the Mississippi state capital is 113 miles.
Sumner is positioned 33.96 degrees north of the equator and 90.36 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /mscountysumner.htm   (230 words)

  
 sumner grant application guidelines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Independent students who have not established a residence in one of the Sumner counties may not establish eligibility by the address of parents who reside in one of the eligible counties.
Sumner Foundation verifies residency in the appropriate counties for all applicants.
For the spring and summer term of the 2006-2007 school year the Sumner Grant will be allocated on a basis of $40 per credit hour taken.
www.holmes.cc.ms.us /sumner   (338 words)

  
 “Tallahatchie County Acquits a Peckerwood”
In Sumner, Mississippi, last month the good people of Tallahatchie County convened to try the case of a peckerwood named Elmer Otis Kimbell for the murder of a Negro.
Perhaps because Clinton Melton was a native Mississippi Negro, and his death lacked reader appeal (this was the Kimbell rather than the Melton case), the flock of reporters that converged here in September had dwindled to a handful for the March trial.
For unlike most of the rest of the state, where William Bradford Huie’s article “Approved Killing in Mississippi,” drew a reac­tion aimed only at the magazine, around Tallahatchie and its neigh­boring counties there was a reaction against Milam and Bryant among the very people who had contributed to their defense fund.
www.soc.umn.edu /~samaha/cases/halberstam_peckerwood.html   (2985 words)

  
 CRSumner, Mississippi writer
Sumner was educated by her mother and grandmother because her parents thought school was a waste of time (American Novelist of Today 418).
Sumner's writing career began with the publication of a poem at the age of eighteen (Jackson Daily News 1A), but after she married one of her professors, James B. Sumner, on July 20, 1915.
Sumner was widely traveled, and some of her non-fiction works were the results of her wanderings (Clarion-Ledger 1A).
www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Sumner.html   (1014 words)

  
 Sumner Mississippi Dish Network | Dishnetwork Sumner MS Offers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Dish Network Sumner Mississippi programming and the company has been hailed as the leader in customer satisfaction among television providers.
What most families appreciate most about Dish Network Sumner MS is the amount of choices available- whether programming choices, types of equipment, or level of technology.
Sumner Mississippi Dish Network HD (high definition) programming is as exciting as the standard definition choices.
snltranscripts.jt.org /dishnetwork/ms-sumner-dish-network.phtml   (862 words)

  
 Sumner Mississippi Home Inspection - Home Inspectors Sumner Mississippi
When you find that house that is right for you, hiring a Sumner home inspector to educate you about the condition of your new home is commonplace and a wise decision.
Choosing a Sumner home inspector means choosing someone you can trust to objectively, independently and apart from anyones interests other than your own, provide you with a comprehensive analysis of the home’s major systems and components.
Sumner Homeowners, if you have questions about your house, Give us a call we would be glad to assist you in making an informed decision.
zerodefectshomeinspections.com /ms-sumner.html   (233 words)

  
 American Experience | The Murder of Emmett Till | Primary Sources
We are convinced that the brutal and savage lynching of Emmett Till in Mississippi is part of the lynch hysteria being whipped up in the South to impede the desegregation of the public school system as decreed by the Supreme Court.
Caldwell was advised that a check with Bureau of the Census reflected that the city of Le Flore, Mississippi, in 1950 had a population of only 27 persons and that the city of Tchula, Mississippi, had a population of 927.
Caldwell that inquiry of bus terminals in Mississippi would in all probability result in the inquiry being known and that the records of the bus terminals would probably not be divided as to white and colored tickets sold in view of Interstate Commerce Commission's regulations.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/till/filmmore/ps_reactions.html   (3854 words)

  
 Mississippi Humanities Council
The charrette was the result of a collaboration forged by the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History the Mississippi Library Commission and the Mississippi Arts Commission as the agencies came together to respond and rebuild after Hurricane Katrina.
The Mississippi Humanities Council inaugurated the Cora Norman Lecture Series in 1997 in honor of Dr. Cora Norman, who served as the founding executive director of the Mississippi Humanities Council until her retirement in May 1996.
The Mississippi Oral History Project is a joint venture by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, the University of Southern Mississippi, and MHC to document and preserve the history and culture of our state.
www.mshumanities.org   (2603 words)

  
 Mississippi Artists
Folk artist born in Union, Mississippi, in 1905, lived in Newton County, whimsical wood carvings are in Smithsonian Institution.
Her distinct impressionistic style is sought after by collectors in Mississippi and across the country but are very difficult to acquire at this point.
In this period of time he has delighted Mississippi art lovers with solo exhibitions at Delta State University, Mississippi University for Women, and Twenty Minutes of Light at Gallery 119 in the capitol city of Jackson, invited to represent the state of contemporary arts in Mississippi in the 2005 Mississippi Museum of Art’s Mississippi Invitational.
www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/Stennis/MississippiArtists2.html   (6274 words)

  
 1994 Mississippi Cotton Variety Trials
NACB counts were made on ten plants per plot in three replications of tests at Stoneville, Sumner, Mississippi State, Brooksville, and Raymond approximately 130 days after planting.
The narrow row test in the Delta was planted at Stoneville, Sumner and Percy, with yield and fiber properties determined in the same way as for the main variety tests.
Mississippi State University is an equal opportunity institution.
msucares.com /pubs/Variety/Cotton/94_data/mcvt94.html   (1602 words)

  
 The Delta: Everything Southern
He serves on the State Advisory Committee for the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi and is an Advisory Board Member of the Tipitina's Foundation in New Orleans.
In 1976 she was elected mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi, the first African-American mayor of a city in Mississippi.
Maude Schuyler Clay, who lives in Sumner, Mississippi, achieved national attention with the publication of her collection of sepia photographs, Delta Land in 1999.
exlibris.memphis.edu /delta/presentations.html   (452 words)

  
 Emmett Till Trial in Sumner, Mississippi - Chicago Defender 24sep1955
Judge Swango was praised highly by residents of Sumner and of Memphis for his fairness toward the Negro.
Breland, of Sumner, Miss., defense attorney in the Emmett L. Till case appears to be a rather amiable person.
Kellum, of Tutwiler, with offices at Sumner; C. Sidney Carlton of Sumner; Harvey Henderson of Sumner; and John W. Whitten.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/Emmett-Till-Defender24sep55.htm   (2550 words)

  
 MSCI Newsletter; March 2001
AIM's goal is to assist clients in complying with government regulations and improving their profitability while supporting their entrance into the new age of micro input management and visual presentation.
Mississippi State University Extension Service is charged with the responsibility for disseminating research-based information and technology that is practical and useful to all Mississippians.
The MSU Extension Service has offices located in all 82 counties of Mississippi as well as extension specialists located on the campus of the Mississippi State University and its affiliated agricultural experiment stations.
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 CampusProgress.org | Seeds of Change in Mississippi
In 1955, whites in Mississippi received no more of a sentence for killing fls than they would for killing a deer out of season.
Indeed, in Mississippi, neither whites nor fls spoke out against the injustices of the courtroom and society at large.
Despite mounting pressure on the Justice Department to investigate the increased violence in the South, the executive branch adopted a “policy of silence” and inaction.
www.campusprogress.org /features/358/seeds-of-change-in-mississippi   (2246 words)

  
 American Experience | The Murder of Emmett Till | Timeline
May 7: The Reverend George Lee, a grocery owner and NAACP field worker in Belzoni, Mississippi, is shot and killed at point blank range while driving in his car after trying to vote.
A few weeks later in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Lamar Smith, another fl man, is shot and killed in front of the county courthouse, in broad daylight and before witnesses, after casting his ballot.
The Jackson [Mississippi] Daily News decries the "brutal, senseless crime" but complains that the NAACP is working "to arouse hatred and fear" by calling Till's murder a lynching.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/till/timeline/timeline2.html   (1494 words)

  
 Sumner Profile | Sumner MS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Sumner, MS, population 407, is located in Mississippi's Tallahatchie county, about 83.5 miles from Memphis and 116.2 miles from Jackson.
Through the 90's Sumner's population has grown by about 11%.
It is estimated that in recent years Sumner's population has been declining at an annual rate of 2.0 percent.
www.idcide.com /citydata/ms/sumner.htm   (49 words)

  
 Sumner, Mississippi MS, town profile (Tallahatchie County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
Mississippi > All counties > Tallahatchie County > Sumner
At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Sumner was $20,056, compared with $21,587 nationally.
Median rent in Sumner, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $325.
www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=271074   (445 words)

  
 Clarksdale Press Register
He was a U. Navy Hell Cat pilot in World War II and settled in Sumner with his wife, Tonya, where he was a farmer for many years.
After moving to Sumner, he was very instrumental in founding his current church home, Episcopal Church of the Advent, where he was Junior and Senior Warden, Layreader, Sunday School teacher, Treasurer and Choir Member for 25 plus years.
Bouldin was a Rotarian and past President of the Sumner Rotary Club and was made a Paul Harris Fellow in 1999.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2038&dept_id=230615&newsid=16881294&PAG=461&rfi=9   (534 words)

  
 The real founder of the New Journalism - Murray Kempton; includes related article Washington Monthly - Find Articles
I was 21 that summer, working as a reporter in a small town in the northeast part of the state, and I had decided to do a magazine piece for the old Reporter on the way different reporters covered the trial.
He was a slender figure even then, perfectly dressed in the summer uniform of the national reporter in that pre-air conditioning age: cord jacket, button-down shirt, striped tie, khaki pants.
Jay thought Murray had decided to bring with him to Sumner a portable record player in order to capture the mood of the region, which he suspected, quite properly, would be excluded from the record of the trial at Sumner.
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 ComputerLeasing.ByCityBiz.com - computer leasing providers Sumner Mississippi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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 Sumner, Mississippi (MS) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
Sumner, Mississippi (MS) population and demographics data - Sperling's BestPlaces
As of 2007, Sumner's population is 393 people.
Compared to the rest of the country, Sumner's cost of living is 31.40% Lower than the U.S. average.
www.bestplaces.net /city/Profile.aspx?city=Sumner_MS&cat=COSTLIV   (100 words)

  
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I thought that it was interesting to know that she was forbidden to get registered to vote by her landowner, that if she registered to vote, she would be fired and kicked out of her home.
We then went to Sumner, Mississippi, where we had a chance to see and go inside the courthouse, where the trial of Emmett Till happened.
After walking around the Bryant store in Money, Mississippi, I just think about how much hatred there had to be in the men who were involved with abducting, beating, killing, and throwing him in a river, to make an example of him.
www.wfu.edu /aes/social_stratification/day10journals.html   (879 words)

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