List of people from Mississippi

This list contains people who were born or lived in the U.S. state of Mississippi. == Activists and advocates == Ruby Bridges (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South (Tylertown) Will D. Campbell (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist (Amite County) James Chaney (1943–1964), civil rights activist (Meridian) Vernon Dahmer (1908–1966), civil rights activist (Hattiesburg) Charles Evers (1922–2020), civil rights leader, mayor of Fayette (Decatur) Medgar Evers (1925–1963), civil rights leader (Decatur) Myrlie Evers-Williams (born 1933), civil rights activist, journalist (Vicksburg) C. L. Franklin (1915–1984), Baptist minister, father of Aretha Franklin (Shelby) Lloyd L. Gaines (1911–1939? ), challenged segregation at University of Missouri School of Law, disappeared in 1939 (Water Valley) Duncan M. Gray Jr.

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