Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood, Mississippi Location of Greenwood, Mississippi Location of Greenwood, Mississippi Greenwood, Mississippi is positioned in the US Greenwood, Mississippi - Greenwood, Mississippi State Mississippi Greenwood is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Leflore County, Mississippi, positioned at the easterly edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee.
It is the principal town/city of the Greenwood Micropolitan Statistical Area.
The Tallahatchie and the Yalobusha rivers meet at Greenwood to form the Yazoo River.
Throughout the 1960s, Greenwood was the site of primary protests and conflicts as African Americans worked to achieve ethnic integration and voting access amid the civil rights movement.
4 Mississippi Blues Trail markers The flood plain of the Mississippi River has long been an region rich in vegetation and wildlife, fed by the Mississippi and its various tributaries.
Under pressure from the United States government, in 1830 the Choctaw principal chief Greenwood Le - Flore and other Choctaw leaders signed the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, ceding most of their remaining territory to the United States in exchange for territory in Indian Territory, what is now southeastern Oklahoma.
The settlement had competition from Greenwood Leflore's rival landing called Point Leflore just three miles up the Yazoo River.
The rivalry ended when Captain James Dilliard donated parcels in exchange for a commitment from the townsmen to maintain an all-weather turnpike to the hill section to the east along with a Stage Road to the more established settlements to the North West. In 1844 it was incorporated as "Greenwood", titled after Chief Greenwood Le - Flore.
Founded amid a strong global demand for cotton, the city's success was based on its strategic locale in the heart of the Delta: on the easternmost point of the alluvial plain and astride the Tallahatchie and the Yazoo rivers.
The town/city served as a shipping point for cotton to primary markets in New Orleans, Vicksburg, Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and St.
Thousands of slaves were brought as workers to Mississippi from the Upper South, in a forced migration that moved more than one million slaves in total to the Deep South to satisfy the demand for labor, as cotton cultivation spread to these new territories of the Southeast.
Greenwood continued to prosper, based on slave workforce on the cotton plantations and in shipping, until the latter part of the American Civil War.
The assembly of barns s through the region in the 1880s revitalized the city,:8 with two rail lines running to downtown Greenwood, close to the Yazoo River, and shortening transit to markets.
Greenwood again emerged as a prime shipping point for cotton.
From 1962 through 1965, Greenwood was a center of protests and voter registration struggles amid the Civil Rights Movement.
During this period, hundreds of African Americans were arrested in nonviolent protests; civil rights activists were subjected to repeated violence by police and whites.
The civil rights protesters in Greenwood in the mid-1960s were supported by an economic boycott organized by the Catholic peace organization Pax Christi, which had a chapter in the city.
In June 1966, James Meredith, the first African American to attend the University of Mississippi, announced that he was going to walk from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, to protest racism, in a March Against Fear over a distance of more than 200 miles.
Later, in Greenwood's Broad Street Park, Carmichael gave his famous Black Power speech, stating: The speech was a turning point in the civil rights boss in the sense that younger members took up Carmichael's slogan, taking it to support the use of violence in the defense of their freedom. The speech has been said to have marked the beginning of the fragmentation of the civil rights boss in the mid 1960s, but the process was already underway.
Greenwood is positioned at 33 31 7 N 90 11 2 W (33.518719, -90.183883). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 9.5 square miles (25 km2), of which 9.2 square miles (24 km2) is territory and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km2) is water.
Mississippi Blues Trail markers On Sunday evenings, King performed live gospel music as part of a quartet. In memory of this event, the Mississippi Blues Trail has placed its third historic marker in this town at the site of the former airways broadcast. Another Mississippi Blues trail marker is placed near the grave of the blues singer Robert Johnson. A Blues Trail marker notes the Elks Lodge. Greenwood is governed under the town/city council form of government, composed of council members propel from seven wards and headed by a mayor.
The United States Postal Service operates two postal services in Greenwood.
They are the Greenwood Post Office and the Leflore Post Office. Amtrak, the nationwide passenger rail system, provides service to Greenwood, connecting New Orleans to Chicago from Greenwood station.
Greenwood is served by Greenwood Leflore Airport (GWO) to the east and is positioned midway between Jackson, Mississippi, and Memphis, Tennessee.
Route 82 runs through Greenwood on its way from Georgia's Atlantic coast (Brunswick, Georgia) to the White Sands of New Mexico (east of Las Cruces).
Other Greenwood highways include Mississippi Highway 7.
Greenwood Public School District operates enhance schools.
Greenwood High School is the only enhance high school in Greenwood.
Leflore County School District operates schools outside the Greenwood town/city area, including Amanda Elzy High School.
Pillow Academy, a private school, is positioned in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood.
Delta Streets Academy, a newly established private school, positioned in downtown Greenwood has an enrollment of nearly 50 students and continues to grow.
"Find a County".
Greg O'Brien (2008).
Donny Whitehead; Mary Carol Miller (14 September 2009).
Smith, Frank E.
John C.
Krauss, Clifford.
"Mississippi Farmers Trade Cotton Plantings for Corn", The New York Times, May 5, 2009 Delta Democrat-Times, November 26, 1956.
Kirkpatrick, Mario Carter.
"White Citizens' Councils aimed to maintain 'Southern way of life'".
Mississippi Voter Registration Greenwood ~ Civil Rights Movement Veterans Hendrickson, Paul (2003).
Michael V.
"On this day June 6, 1966: Black civil rights activist shot".
Matthew C.
Richard T.
Williams, Horace Randall and Ben Beard (2009).
"US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Greenwood Mississippi".
Cloues, Kacey.
"Historical marker placed on Mississippi Blues Trail".
"Film crew chronicles blues markers" (PDF).
Widen, Larry.
"Mississippi Blues Commission - Blues Trail".
"Post Office Location - GREENWOOD." "Post Office Location - LEFLORE." Mike Celizic (February 11, 1985).
Richard Skelly.
"Carl Small Town Center Continues Making a Difference in the Delta".
"Louis Coleman Stats".
"A Little Abnormal: The Life of Byron De La Beckwith".
"Football Signings in the Mid-South".
"Betty Everett, 61, of 'The Shoop Shoop Song'".
Bryan Crawford (October 29, 2009).
"Franklin, William Webster, (1941 - )".
Bill Burrus (July 19, 2012).
John Howard (10 October 2001).
Scott Stanton (1 September 2003).
David Kenneth Wiggins (2010).
Sal Maiorana (January 2005).
"Mississippi Slave Narratives from the WPA Records".
Filip Bondy (27 April 2010).
"Cleo Lemon".
Paul Oliver (27 September 1984).
"The President".
"Paul Maholm Stats".
"Matt Miller Stats".
Bob Doerschuk (2001).
Nigel Williamson; Robert Plant (2 April 2007).
Richard Rubin (15 June 2010).
Bob Mc - Cann (2010).
Jas Obrecht (2000).
Tracy Hargreaves (1 September 2001).
Martha Ward Plowden (January 1996).
City of Greenwood Municipalities and communities of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States State of Mississippi
Categories:
Cities in Mississippi - County seats in Mississippi - Cities in Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan region - Cities in Leflore County, Mississippi - Mississippi Blues Trail - Populated places established in 1830 - 1830 establishments in Mississippi
|