Rosamond Press

It’s been twenty-four hours since The Blue Wave began, and I have not heard the Democrats come up with one good idea on how to bring help to those who suffer. Here’s some……

1. Every time a Republican says a Democrat stole the election, they are fined a thousand dollars. Consider the Fugitive Slave Act.
2. Everyone who cried “Hang Mike Pence” should lose their right to vote, and be fined a thousand dollars. Consider the Fugitive Slave Act.
3. Because Mississippe drove a hundred thousand Blacks to the North, a pipeline will be laid from there to Michigan, in order to bring heating oil to save thousands of single mothers, and their children, from freezing to death this winter.
4. Elon Musk will pay for this pipeline – as well as give every Single Mother in America $500 dollars to help with heating and rising food costs.
5. Israel will launch a Mercy Fleet carrying natural gas thru the Straights of Gibraltar, across the Atlantic, thru the Saint Lawrence Seaway – filling empty natural gas tanks along the way in order to keep Single Mothers from freezing to death. David Kirchner will help pay for this, and wear a Captain’s hat that says; “I lost big! Have mercy on me!”
6. Have John Fetterman resign and volunteer to protect Mike Pence from the deranged Republicans in Oregon, who are frothing at the mouth! Their need to blame each other is so great.

The historical reality of African Americans moving or being forced northward from Mississippi and the broader Mississippi River Valley involves several distinct eras, spanning from the post-Civil War period through the mid-20th century.

1. The Exoduster Movement (1879)

Following the end of Reconstruction, white Southern Democrats (known as “Redeemers”) regained political control and enacted restrictive laws to prevent Black landownership and enforce low-wage agricultural labor. Compounded by systemic racial violence, thousands of freedpeople—particularly from the rural Delta counties bordering the Mississippi River—fled the region. Known as Exodusters, roughly 5,000 to 6,000 African Americans migrated rapidly toward Kansas, Iowa, and Missouri in 1879. To slow the exodus and combat a looming labor shortage, local white authorities frequently harassed prospective migrants and confiscated their belongings at steamship ports along the Mississippi River. [1, 2]

2. The 1927 Great Mississippi River Flood

One of the most acute instances of Black residents being physically driven out or violently displaced occurred during the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927. In areas like Greenville, Mississippi, white plantation owners and local authorities forced over 13,000 Black sharecroppers to work on breaking levees at gunpoint. While white residents were evacuated, Black families were detained in segregated relief camps on top of the levees, subject to forced labor, and denied food unless they worked. The combination of the natural disaster and systemic abuse acted as a major catalyst that drove waves of African Americans out of the Delta entirely. [1]

3. The Great Migration (1910–1970)

Over a six-decade period, more than 6 million African Americans relocated from the rural South to the North, Midwest, and West to escape Jim Crow segregation, disenfranchisement, racial terror, and the economic trap of sharecropping. [1, 2, 3]

• The Mississippi Pipeline: Migration patterns were largely dictated by train and river routes. The vast majority of the estimated 100,000+ Black migrants who left Mississippi during the first wave traveled directly north into Midwestern industrial hubs, primarily Chicago, Detroit, and Cincinnati. [1, 2]
• Demographic Shift: In 1910, Mississippi had the second-largest Black population in the country, making up roughly 56% of the state’s total population. By 1970, due to the massive northward exodus, that proportion dropped to about 37%. [1, 2]

4. White-Capping and Land Dispossession

Throughout the early to mid-20th century, targeted racial violence also forced Black landowners off their property, driving them out of the state. Successful Black farmers and ministers who acquired independent wealth or debt-free land were frequently targeted by white vigilantes. Under threat of death or immediate violence, families were given short windows to flee, leaving their land and assets to be seized by local white residents. [1, 2]

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