Mississippi - Contact a mobile notary in the cities below:
Cities in Mississippi:
Aberdeen | Amory | Batesville | Bay St. Louis | Biloxi | Bolton Notary | Booneville | Brandon Notary | Brookhaven Notary | Byram Notary | Canton Notary | Carthage Notary | Clarksdale | Cleveland | Clinton Notary | Columbia | Columbus | Corinth | Crystal Springs Notary | D’Iberville | Edwards Notary | Flora Notary | Florence Notary | Forest Notary | Gautier | Greenville | Greenwood | Grenada | Gulfport | Hattiesburg | Hazelhurst Notary | Hernando | Holly Springs | Horn Lake | Indianola | Jackson Notary | Kosciusko | Laurel | Long Beach | Louisville Notary | Madison Notary | Magee Notary | McComb Notary | Mendenhall Notary | Meridian | Morton Notary | Moss Point | Natchez | New Albany | Ocean Springs | Olive Branch | Oxford | Pascagoula | Pass Christian | Pearl Notary | Pelahatchie Notary | Petal | Philadelphia Notary | Picayune | Raymond Notary | Richland Notary | Ridgeland Notary | Senatobia | Southaven | St. Martin | Starkville | Terry Notary | Tupelo | Vicksburg Notary | Waveland | West Hattiesburg | West Point | Yazoo City Notary
About Mississippi
Mississippi entered the Union on December 10, 1817, as the 20th state. Jackson, Mississippi’s capital and largest city, was founded at about the same time. The state takes its name from the Mississippi River, the great waterway that forms the state’s western boundary. The river’s name was derived from an Algonquin term for “big river.” Mississippi is commonly nicknamed the Magnolia State because of the great number of magnolia trees that grow within its borders. The blossom of the magnolia is the state flower.
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern United States, and borders on the Gulf of Mexico. Early explored by the Spanish and colonized by the French, Mississippi’s warm climate and rich soil proved ideally suited to cotton, which became the main crop even before 1800 and remained the mainstay of its economy until the 20th century.
When cotton was king during the 1850s, Mississippi plantation owners-especially those of the Delta and Black Belt regions-became increasingly wealthy due to the high fertility of the soil and the high price of cotton on the international market. The severe wealth imbalances and the necessity of large-scale slave populations to sustain such income played a heavy role in both state politics and in the support for secession.
Anglo-Saxon settlers from the older seaboard states flocked to Mississippi’s virgin lands, bringing black slaves to work their fields, and until 1940 blacks outnumbered whites. Even today Mississippi has a larger percentage of blacks than any other state. Relations between the races have tended to shape Mississippi’s history and to foster a conservative political philosophy and an insistence on state’s rights among its white majority. In recent years, however, blacks have begun to enter political and economic realms formerly virtually closed to them. At the same time, “king” cotton has made room for a more diversified agriculture, and Mississippi has undergone an industrial boom. Although Mississippians still cherish the columned mansions and hallowed traditions of their past, they can now boast a diversified industrial and agricultural economy.
Mississippi’s capital, Jackson, is also the states most populous city. During the Civil War, Jackson became a main strategic center for Confederate manufacturing. The town was the scene of several battles, and was captured by Union forces twice.
Jackson was also the site of several important incidents and protests in the Civil Rights Movement. A large group of Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson while on their way to New Orleans. Civil rights activist and leader Medgar Evers was murdered in Jackson by a white supremacist. Millsaps College, a school in Jackson, became the first private college to admit African American students. Jackson was also the terminus of the James Meredith March, led by James Meredith, who was the first black person to register at the University of Mississippi. The goal of the march was to register black voters in the surrounding states. Nearly 3,000 black voters were registered.
Those interested in learning more about Mississippi, including how to become a notary public in the state, should visit Become A Notary Public
