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The Clarion (Jackson, Mississippi) · 21 January 1885
The newspaper attributes a school-exclusion statement to California’s superintendent. Publication in Jackson does not make the reported school action a Mississippi event.
Greenwood · 4 August 1898
The first of the two settings in this series: work equal to Birmingham and St. Louis, the same prices, a guarantee, drummers’ work back the same day, and a laundry near the post office.
near Port Gibson · 3 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 12 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 12 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 13 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 13 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 14 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 14 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
near Port Gibson · 14 November 1903
One of eight inspected printings of the same account about a farmer near Port Gibson.
Grenada · 25 April 1908
An advertisement in Grenada presents services under the name Hop Long.
Macon · 27 September 1912
An advertisement in Macon presents services under the name Sam Lum.
Columbus · 8 December 1912
The advertisement labels its list “LOW PRICES”; that is an advertised claim, not a market comparison.
Port Gibson · 22 May 1913
An advertisement in Port Gibson presents services under the name Geo Wong.
Dundee · 3 August 1920
Records a formal merchant association and a named Mississippi president.
Mississippi · 1922
The 1922 school-law compilation printed the constitutional requirement for separate white and colored schools.
Clarksdale · 5 March 1924
Records that a committee was appointed to investigate the education of Chinese children. The item appears inside a report of a church meeting, which is where its setting comes from; the printed sentence does not say what the committee proposed or what came of it.
Rosedale · 29 September 1924 – 5 November 1924
The petition alleged that Martha Lum was excluded from school in Rosedale because of her Chinese descent.
Rosedale · 13 October 1924
Reports earlier attendance at Rosedale, but is not an enrollment record.
Rosedale · 5 November 1924
The circuit court directed a writ admitting Martha Lum and allowed the defendants an appeal. The Mississippi Supreme Court later reversed.
Rosedale · 11 May 1925
In 1925, the Mississippi Supreme Court placed the Chinese school litigants within the colored public-school system under its reading of state law.
Alligator · 25 August 1925
Names Chinese residents traveling from Alligator to a merchants' association event.
Clarksdale Daily Register (Clarksdale, Miss.) · 8 March 1927
Records a $2,000 county appropriation for litigation without proving who received it.
Rosedale · 22 March 1927
Places J. K. Young in direct contact with the Supreme Court clerk on association letterhead.
The Lexington Advertiser (Lexington, Mississippi) · 20 October 1927
This column explicitly locates the school cases in the Delta section of Mississippi. The place is in the report itself, rather than inferred from where the newspaper was printed.
Rosedale · 21 November 1927
Shows the Supreme Court extending segregation doctrine to Chinese pupils.