Musgrove served from 2000 to 2004.
2000: Ronnie Musgrove becomes Mississippi’s sixty-second governor
2000: Mississippi Supreme Court declares that state does not have official state flag
2000: Nissan announces plan to build plant in Madison County
2000: Haley Barbour serves as chairman of George W. Bush’s presidential advisory committee
2000: John Lee Hooker receives Lifetime Achievement Award
The award was given by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, which also presents the Grammy Awards.
January 13, 2000: Federal authorities reopen investigation into 1964 lynching of Charles Moore and Henry Dee
The case was reopened after the Clarion-Ledger revealed that the killings might have taken place on federal property. The paper also revealed that FBI documents in the case had not been destroyed as agents previously said.
June 7, 2000: FBI agents arrest Ernest Avants in connection with Klan’s 1966 killing of Ben Chester White in Homochitto National Forest
Federal authorities reopened the investigation in November of 1999 after learning the killing took place on federal property.