Editing Jackson, Mississippi (section)

===Post-Reconstruction===
Democrats regained control of the state legislature in 1876. The constitutional convention of 1890, which produced Mississippi's Constitution of 1890, was held at the capitol.<ref name="OC">{{Cite web|title=Old Capitol Museum {{!}} Mississippi Department of Archives & History|url=https://www.mdah.ms.gov/explore-mississippi/old-capitol-museum|access-date=2021-01-23|website=www.mdah.ms.gov|archive-date=January 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210116212323/https://www.mdah.ms.gov/explore-mississippi/old-capitol-museum|url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first of new constitutions or amendments ratified in each Southern state through 1908 that effectively [[Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era|disenfranchised]] most [[African Americans]] and many poor whites, through provisions making voter registration more difficult: such as [[poll taxes in the United States|poll taxes]], residency requirements, and [[literacy test]]s. These provisions survived a Supreme Court challenge in 1898.<ref>[https://ssrn.com/abstract=224731 Richard H. Pildes, "Democracy, Anti-Democracy, and the Canon", ''Constitutional Commentary'', Vol.17, 2000, pp.12–13] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190723082416/https://ssrn.com/abstract=224731 |date=July 23, 2019}}. Retrieved March 10, 2008.</ref><ref>Michael Perman, ''Struggle for Mastery: Disfranchisement in the South, 1888–1908'', Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001</ref> As 20th-century Supreme Court decisions later ruled such provisions were unconstitutional, Mississippi and other Southern states rapidly devised new methods to continue disfranchisement of most black people, who comprised a majority in the state until the 1930s. Their exclusion from politics was maintained into the late 1960s.

The so-called [[Mississippi State Capitol|New Capitol]] replaced the older structure upon its completion in 1903. Today the Old Capitol is operated as a historical museum.<ref name="OC" />