What is List of people from Mississippi?
{{use American English|date=July 2015}} {{use mdy dates|date=July 2015}} [[File:Flag of Mississippi.svg|thumb|right|250px|[[Flag of Mississippi|State flag of Mississippi]]]] [[File:Mississippi in United States.svg|thumb|right|250px|Location of Mississippi in the U.S. map]] This list contains people who were born or lived in the [[U.S. state]] of [[Mississippi]]. {{dynamic list|date=July 2015}} ==Activists and advocates== * [[Ruby Bridges]] (born 1954), first African-American child to attend an all-white school in the South ([[Tylertown, Mississippi|Tylertown]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Ruby Bridges|url=http://www.biography.com/people/ruby-bridges-475426|publisher=biography.com|access-date= October 5, 2013}}</ref> * [[Will Campbell (Baptist minister)|Will D. Campbell]] (1924–2013), Baptist minister and activist ([[Amite County, Mississippi|Amite County]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Will D. Campbell|url=http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/finding_aids/MUM00062.html|publisher=The University of Mississippi.|access-date= October 5, 2013}}</ref> * [[James Chaney]] (1943–1964), civil rights activist ([[Meridian, Mississippi|Meridian]])<ref>{{cite web|title=James Chaney|url=http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchaney.htm|publisher=.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk|access-date=October 5, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131002121209/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchaney.htm|archive-date=October 2, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref> * [[Vernon Dahmer]] (1908–1966), civil rights activist ([[Hattiesburg, Mississippi|Hattiesburg]])<ref>{{cite web|title=Vernon Dahmer|url=http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m250.htm?m250text.htm~mainFrame|publisher=The University of Southern Mississippi|access-date=October 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100607094933/http://www.lib.usm.edu/legacy/archives/m250.htm?m250text.htm~mainFrame|archive-date=June 7, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> * [[Charles Evers]] (1922–2020), civil rights leader, mayor of [[Fayette, Mississippi|Fayette]] ([[Dec