Mississippi GOP Will Hold Redistricting Vote at Infamous Jim Crow Site

Mississippi Republicans plan to hold a vote to redraw the state’s congressional map in a building central to the legacy of segregation.The special legislative session is scheduled to take place on May 20 in what is now known as the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, ostensibly due to renovations in the House chamber in the newer Capitol building. But the Old Capitol was the site of Mississippi’s vote to secede from the union over slavery in 1861, as well as the location where lawmakers met to establ...