Editing Jackson, Mississippi (section)

===Reconstruction===
During [[Reconstruction Era|Reconstruction]], African Americans were granted civil rights. Schools were established and African Americans held political offices. [[Eugene Welborne]], [[Charles Reese (politician)|Charles Reese]], [[Weldon Hicks]], and [[George Caldwell Granberry]] were among the legislators who represented Hinds County in the legislature. African Americans also served in local offices, as judges, and as marshalls.

Mississippi had considerable insurgent action, as whites struggled to maintain white supremacy. Jackson's appointed mayor [[Joseph G. Crane]] was stabbed to death in 1869. The assailant, [[Edward M. Yerger]], was arrested by military authorities but, after a U.S. Supreme Court case ([[Ex parte Yerger]]), he was bonded out, moved to Baltimore and was never tried.

The economic recovery from the Civil War was slow through the start of the 20th century, but there were some developments in transportation. In 1871, the city introduced mule-drawn streetcars which ran on State Street, which were replaced by electric ones in 1899.<ref>Todd Sanders, ''Images of America: Jackson's North State Street'' (Charleston: Arcadia Publishing, 2009), 58 and 40.</ref> In 1875, the [[Red Shirts (United States)|Red Shirts]] were formed, one of the second waves of insurgent [[paramilitary]] organizations that essentially operated as "the military arm of the Democratic Party" to take back political power from the Republicans and to drive black people from the polls ([[Mississippi Plan]]).<ref>George C. Rable, ''But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of Reconstruction'', Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984, p. 132</ref>