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"Letter from Stephen B. Blackwell to Governor Ames",,"Letter from Stephen B. Blackwell to Governor Adelbert Ames, regarding rations for victims of the 1874 Mississippi River flood.",,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-",,1874-06-06,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Document at the Civil War & Reconstruction Governors of Mississippi Project. Original held at the Mississippi Department of Archives & History.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"
June 6, 1874
Mayersville Miss
June 6th 1874
Governor A. Ames
Dear Sir
it is with pleagure to write you a few lines to ask who was the signer of the petition of Issaquena county for Government Rashen Governor the question is this we the People do not Think that the Recent overflower has done that much damage to the county, but think the party are only after skining for them themselfs your Hon. Please if it is possible to send the petition to me or the names of thos whom petition you for Rashins I and great many more of this county well be please to know as we well have the taxes to pay for said Rashins: write soon
Your Respectfully
S. B. Blackwell
",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"ames,blackwell,issaquena",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/7/2214/bwletter.png,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Signature of Stephen B. Blackwell",,"Signature of Stephen B. Blackwell from an 1874 letter to Governor Ames.",,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-",,1874-06-06,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,signatures",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/7/2213/blackwell.png,"Still Image","Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Broadside for Republican Rally",,,,,,,,1896,,,,,,,,,"Jones, Cornelius J., 1858-1931; Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Greenville (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Jones-Sadler family papers, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library",,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Ten Thousand Republicans Rally as Never Before!!
Let every old soldier who fought for the country and every Republican who voted before he was disfranchised by the New Constitution
Rally Around the Flag at Greenville, Miss., on the 1st Day of Aug. 1896
The Grandest Ratification Rally ever witnessed. Hon. C. J. JONES, the Republican nominee for Congress will open his campaign in this county on that day.
Leading Republicans from other counties will be present and speak on that day. S. P. Hurst, Chairman of the Dist. Executive Committee, J. E. Ousley, Wesley Creyton, I. T. Montgomery, G. W. Gilliam, G. W. Chatters and S. B. Blackwell and many other leading Republicans will be present. The greatest demonstration since 1876. Every Republican is called to duty.
E. W. Lampton,
N. Cowan,
Chairman and Secretary of the County Central Committee.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,cj jones,greenville",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/68d1711be7475dc42605557da9883570.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Clarion-Ledger clipping",,,,,,Clarion-Ledger,,1898-06-17,,,,,,,,,"Hill, James, 1846-1903; Randolph, John W., active 1874-1907; Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Butler, George William; Political conventions",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"REPUBLICAN STATE LEAGUE.
A Convention Held and Considerable Business Transacted.
A Republican State League Convention was held here this week. It was well attended and a number of Republicans were present. Resolutions were adopted endorsing the action of President McKinley on his untiring and manly efforts in the war against Spain.
The convention was called to order by President James Hill, who briefly addressed the convention.
After reading the call by the secretary the convention proceeded to business. The following officers were elected: G. B. Matthews, president; I. T. Montgomery, of Mound Bayou, Bolivar county, first vice president; B. W. Jackson, second vice president; Mose Schwartz, secretary; R. C. Robertson, assistant secretary, and J. B. Yellowly, treasurer.
The following named delegates were elected to attend the Republican National League Club Convention, that meets in Omaha, Nebraska, July 13, 14 and 15, 1898.
State-at-large - James Hill, Chas. Rosenbaum, A. M. Lea, E. W. Lampton, Wesley Crayton, N. A. Anderson.
1st District - R. D. Littlejohn, W. F. Elgin, F. W. Graham, J. W. Eliott.
2nd District - J. A. Burton, J. C. Robinson, Chas. Webber, A. D. Jonnican.
3rd District - S. B. Blackwell, J. H. Short, T. V. McAllister, G. W. Butler.
4th District - E. C. Lucas, W. D. Frazee, B. W. Foree, A. J. Cooke.
5th District - J. T. Ingleheart, T. J. Wilson, L. S. King, J. I. Garrett.
6th District - J. W. Randolph, Louis J. Winston, H. C. Griffin, Thomas Jefferson.
7th District - J. J. Williams, Wash Newman, J. B. Yellowly, G. E. Matthews.
After which the meeting adjourned.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,butler,conventions,hill,randolph",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/3e5fc3fbf3c9d77fc9afc955cc3292b4.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"State Ledger clipping",,,,,,"State Ledger",,1887-12-17,,,,,,,,,"Bowles, George F.; Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Harris, W. H., active 1874-1889; Brooks, Frank P., 1850-; Huntley, George W., 1849-; Hopson, D. H.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Six Colored Men.
The next Mississippi Legislature will be solidly Democratic. There will be ten Republicans in all in the House, five of whom will be white and five colored. The five colored are G. F. Bowles, of Adams county; S. B. Blackwell, of Issaquena; W. H. Harris, of Washington; F. B. Brooks, of Sharkey; and G. W. Huntley, of Bolivar county. G. F. Bowles, of Adams county, is a lawyer, Grand Chancellor K. of P., and S. C. of U. B. -Busy Bee.
D. H. Hopson, one of the Representatives from Coahoma county, is also a colored man, and has before held responsible offices. Blackwell and Brooks were members of the last House.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,bowles,brooks,hopson,huntley,wh harris",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/8271cd5f6f2ef8a2caa78b58b3a8484a.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Stephen B. Blackwell",,,,,,"Von Seutter, E.",,1882,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Legislature of Mississippi, 1882",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,legislators",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/a9059f168e2539777b148ae728112ae7.PNG,"Still Image","Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"State Ledger clipping",,,,,,"State Ledger",,1886-03-18,,,,,,,,,"Allen, William H., 1851-; Mitchell, Peter, 1831-; Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Lynch, William H., active 1872-1888; Johnson, John, 1842-; Lowe, William Lucius, 1851-",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"A Card.
To Hon. L. W. Magruder, et al., Members of the House of Representatives, 1886.
On the eve of adjournment of this House, we desire to express to you our sincere gratitude for the manly position taken by you in maintaining the rights and privileges of the colored members of this House, and especially are we grateful to you for the manly position taken by you on the ""labor contract bill.""
""Integra mens augustissima possessio.""
We respectfully subscribe our names as your obedient servants
W. H. ALLEN, Chairman Conference.
W. L. LOWE, Secretary.
PETER MITCHELL,
S. B. BLACKWELL,
W. H. LYNCH,
JOHN JOHNSON.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"allen,blackwell,johnson,lowe,mitchell,wh lynch",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/2327d595a2a4d8b33e061bdf718c6ed9.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Clarion-Ledger clipping",,,,,,Clarion-Ledger,,1995-03-07,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Issaquena County (Miss.)",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Supreme Court enters La.-Miss. land dispute
N.Y. Times News Service
WASHINGTON - For the second time in four years, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday waded into a boundary dispute between Mississippi and Louisiana over which state owns a 7-mile-long strip of land that may once have been an island in the Mississippi River but is now firmly attached to the Louisiana shore.
Louisiana is challenging the determination by a special master, appointed two years ago by the court, that despite the current geography, the land belongs to Mississippi.
Although the land in question, near Lake Providence, La., is referred to locally and on many maps as Stack Island, the term ""island"" is itself a fighting word in this long-running litigation.
The special master, Vincent L. McKusick, a former chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine, calls it the ""Disputed Area"" in his 33-page opinion. The court Monday agreed to hear Louisiana's appeal in arguments to be heard next fall.
In the old days, there was an island - whether Stack Island is or was that island is part of the dispute - in the Mississippi that the federal government deeded to private landowner Stephen B. Blackwell in 1888.
Under that deed, the island was part of Issaquena County, with the Mississippi River's main navigation channel - known in boundary dispute cases as the ""live thalweg"" - located between the island and Louisiana.
Over the years, the thalweg shifted as the river's currents ate away at the island in some places and built it up in others. The special master found that by 1954, the thalweg west of the island had ""died"" and Stack Island had essentially merged into the Louisiana riverbank.
To decide whether the property - about 2,000 acres now owned by a family that uses it primarily for hunting deer - is still part of Mississippi as a matter of law, the justices will apply a series of arcane rules developed over the centuries for solving just such problems.
Under the so-called Rule of the Thalweg, a state boundary that lies along a river's main navigational channel shifts as the thalweg shifts - a rule that in this case appears to favor Louisiana.
But the special master applied the Island Exception to the Rule of the Thalweg. Under that exception, as McKusick put it, ""provided that an island maintains a continuous existence, a state's sovereignty over it remains undisturbed as it changes in size and location as a result of accretion net of erosion.""
Louisiana maintains the land that was once Stack Island no longer exists, having long since been washed away, and so the Island Exception does not apply.
The land in dispute consists essentially of sandbars, the state says, contending that a completely new island, identified on some maps as Stack Island, formed to the northeast during the 1960s and 70s. But McKusick rejected that analysis, finding that Stack Island has continued to exist at least since the 1880s.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,blackwell,https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/b244635f209e14c25df3c94926d44139.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"Daily Commercial Herald clipping",,,,,,"Daily Commercial Herald",,1890-05-02,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Jones, Cornelius J., 1858-1931; Scott, Henry P.; Mollison, Willis Elbert",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"Greenville Levee Convention.
There was a meeting held among some of the leading colored men of Issaquena county in the city last night at S. B. Temple's law office, at which C. J. Jones was elected chairman and J. W. Dozier, secretary. After short consultation the following named gentlemen were elected as delegates to the Greenville levee convention, to be held on the 9th inst.: J. L. Collins, F. L. Robinson, S. B. Blackwell, J. W. Dozier, W. E. Mollison, B. J. Bauswell, Levi Lee, C. W. Diggs, C. J. Jones, Aaron French, H. P. Scott.
After which the meeting adjourned.
C. J. JONES, Chairman.
J. W. DOZIER, Secretary.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"blackwell,cj jones,levy,scott",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/e7b90a2d1bd6d43fcb251abc026b7a6c.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0
"State Ledger clipping",,,,,,"State Ledger",,1886-03-18,,,,,,,,,"Blackwell, Stephen B., 1849-; Allen, William H., 1851-; Lowe, William Lucius, 1851-; Mitchell, Peter, 1831-; Lynch, William H., active 1872-1888; Johnson, John, 1842-",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"A Card.
To Hon. L. W. Magruder, et al., Members of the House of Representatives, 1886.
On the eve of adjournment of this House, we desire to express to you our sincere gratitude for the manly position taken by you in maintaining the rights and privileges of the colored members of this House, and especially are we grateful to you for the manly position taken by you on the “labor contract bill.”
“Integra mens augustissima possessio.”
We respectfully subscribe our names as your obedient servants
W. H. ALLEN, Chairman Conference.
W. L. LOWE, Secretary.
PETER MITCHELL,
S. B. BLACKWELL,
W. H. LYNCH,
JOHN JOHNSON.",,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"allen,blackwell,j johnson,lowe,mitchell,wh lynch",https://msstate-exhibits.libraryhost.com/files/original/d7bc10a42c96d24fa112fc55f0fbf300.PNG,Text,"Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi ",1,0