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Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. State of Mississippi. The 2000 census recorded Jackson's population at 184,256.

Founded in 1821 as new state capital for Mississippi, Jackson is named after General Andrew Jackson. Following the Battle of Vicksburg, which was fought near Jackson during the American Civil War in 1863, Union forces commanded by General William Sherman launched the siege of Jackson and set the city on fire.

Jackson in Southern Victory[]

In 1942 a black waiter made himself into a "people bomb" in Jackson, detonating explosives he had strapped to his body, killing himself and eleven white women at a ladies' club meeting being held in his restaurant. This so called Jackson Incident led to President Jake Featherston ordering the town's entire black population of 25,000 to 30,000 people to be rounded up and shipped to Camp Determination where their "population" was immediately "reduced".

Jackson Mississippi Panorama 1910-1-

Jackson in 1910, four years before the Great War.

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