The reason we stay in school, pursue advanced degrees, merge and acquire competitors is to increase market power. The former ...

In Chicago, which had a direct train route from Mississippi, the black-owned newspaper The Chicago Defender urged blacks to migrate, and lobbied railroads to offer group rates for travelers.

The fastest trip, however, ever made for such a long distance on the Mississippi, was the one made by the famous steamboat J.M. White, in 1840, from New-Orleans to St. Louis, 1,200 miles.

The quaint city of Meridian is dubbed Mississippi's "Queen City" thanks to its connection with the Queen and Crescent railroads in the 1880s. What was once an old Southern railroad town in the ...