Kelly Mitchell, Queen of the Gypsy Nation (c. 1868 – 1915) was an American woman who was celebrated as a leader of the Romani people in the US state of Mississippi.
She is said to be the descendant of a group of Romani people who, expelled from Europe, had migrated to South America and from there made their way into the United States.
[2] A document found in the Lauderdale County Department of Archives and History says she was born in Brazil, and that her mother was a native Brazilian who married into a Romani family.
[2] Her body was kept on ice for about six weeks, to allow for the news to be disseminated to various groups of Romani in the Southeast and give them time to come to Meridian.
In 2011, Jennifer Jacob Brown from the Meridian Star reported that the ACLU had started a case against the city;[4] the ordinance was lifted in August 2011.