11086601https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11086601MississippiSimpsonCounty8101866Petition0011Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MississippiCitizens of Simpson County ask that Lewis Dixon be granted all the rights and privileges of white men. Dixon's mother was white; he was three generations removed from the "African race;" and he had never associated with "recently made Freedmen."Occupation (FPOC)Civil War, impact ofInterracial relationships