Tunca Museum Research Paper
THE TUNICA MUSEUM The museum that I chose to visit is located in Tunica, Mississippi it has a short standing tale of important facts in regards to Tunica. The name Tunica comes from the Tunica Indians that lived there with the Chickasaw Indians. Even though the building is small it leaves a big impact of things for you to think about. Why, I was there I found out that the Chickasaw and Tunica Indians had possession of the land in the early 700B.C-A.D.1000. They produce pottery, and growing crops from the land along with cotton and other things. The growth from the land was used to make trades for their needs across eastern North America to survive. The museum stated that the growth of plantations was do the unfortunate trade of the first black people traded to Indians in order to work the land by hand. The Chickasaw Natives later brought salves from settles who migrated into the areas of Virginia, North and South Carolinas, Georgia, Kentucky and Tennessee from the same auctions as livestock. Nathan Bedford Forrest made a big profit with the sale of 33 slaves and made a total of 31,500 dollars at this very same
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auction. The museum also had information on the Jim Crow years from 1865 to 1964.The Jim crow law was a law enacted by individual states to impose racial segregation.
The post-civil war began with the implementation of the Jim crow law.
It was made to reinforce social values that were already in existence for black people but were not abided by. In 1883 the supreme count of the united stated ruled ‘separated but equal’ accommodations for black and white people. That meant different schools, hospital entrances, prisons and intermarriage of a person with more the one-eighth of a color persons’ blood would be unlawful and void in the eyes of the state. Even through things were separated but equal as they would say, the white people schools and hospitals and other things would always look like new and they were known to have better educations then black people. There was also a part of the museum that told the story of sugar ditch, and how in 1985 Rev. Jesse Jackson brought national attention to the sugar ditch in
Tunica.
Where residents lived in poverty and used a nearby ditch to disperse of household waste, even though there were means of availability to use water and sewer lines.
In order to help the people with the improvement of their situation in tunica a pep rally was held and 3,700 dollars was rise, but was never to be seen again neither was Rev. Jesse Jackson. After the broadcast of their hardship all the people were moved and the apartments broken down into rubble. Now, were the Sugar Ditch use to stand is a place for the elderly with everything they need to have a normal life like everyone else in the world. I think that is a very good place to see and learn about our sister state. There are a lot of things to learn about Tunica, Mississippi. That will open your eyes to the past history.
auction. The museum also had information on the Jim Crow years from 1865 to 1964.The Jim crow law was a law enacted by individual states to impose racial segregation.
The post-civil war began with the implementation of the Jim crow law.
It was made to reinforce social values that were already in existence for black people but were not abided by. In 1883 the supreme count of the united stated ruled ‘separated but equal’ accommodations for black and white people. That meant different schools, hospital entrances, prisons and intermarriage of a person with more the one-eighth of a color persons’ blood would be unlawful and void in the eyes of the state. Even through things were separated but equal as they would say, the white people schools and hospitals and other things would always look like new and they were known to have better educations then black people. There was also a part of the museum that told the story of sugar ditch, and how in 1985 Rev. Jesse Jackson brought national attention to the sugar ditch in
Tunica.
Where residents lived in poverty and used a nearby ditch to disperse of household waste, even though there were means of availability to use water and sewer lines.
In order to help the people with the improvement of their situation in tunica a pep rally was held and 3,700 dollars was rise, but was never to be seen again neither was Rev. Jesse Jackson. After the broadcast of their hardship all the people were moved and the apartments broken down into rubble. Now, were the Sugar Ditch use to stand is a place for the elderly with everything they need to have a normal life like everyone else in the world. I think that is a very good place to see and learn about our sister state. There are a lot of things to learn about Tunica, Mississippi. That will open your eyes to the past history.