Indianola, Mississippi Indianola, Mississippi Location of Indianola, Mississippi Location of Indianola, Mississippi Indianola, Mississippi is positioned in the US Indianola, Mississippi - Indianola, Mississippi Indianola is a town/city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
Cox was appointed postmaster of Indianola, becoming the first black female postmaster in the United States.
Cox's position was one of the most respected and lucrative enhance posts in Indianola, as it served approximately 3,000 patrons and paid $1,100 annually a large total at that time.
White resentment to Cox's prestigious position began to grow, and in 1902 some white inhabitants in Indianola drew up a petition requesting Cox's resignation.
Vardaman, editor of the The Greenwood Commonwealth and a white supremacist, began bringing speeches reproaching the citizens of Indianola for "tolerating a negro wench as a postmaster." Racial tensions grew, and threats of physical harm led Cox to submit her resignation to take effect January 1, 1903.
Unless Cox's detractors could prove a reason for her dismissal other than the color of her skin, she would remain the Indianola postmistress". Roosevelt closed Indianola's postal service on January 2, 1903, and rerouted mail to Greenville; Cox continued to receive her full time pay.
That same month, the United States Senate debated the Indianola postal event for four hours, and Cox left Indianola for her own safety and did not return.
King, who worked in the small-town cotton trade in Indianola in the 1940s before pursuing a experienced musical career.
Patterson met with a group of like-minded individuals in a private home in Indianola to form the White Citizens' Council. Its goal was to resist any implementation of ethnic integration in Mississippi.
The Indianola Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Indianola is positioned at the junction of U.S.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 8.7 square miles (23 km2), of which 8.6 square miles (22 km2) is territory and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) (1.03%) is water, including Indian Bayou, which runs the length of the town/city and beyond.
Indianola is 30 miles (48 km) from Greenwood. The topography of Indianola is flat, with the only momentous altitude shifts along waterways such as Indian Bayou and one Indian mound positioned on Main Street east of U.S.
As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 10,683 citizens residing in the city.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 78.8% Black, 18.5% White, 0.2% Native American, 0.5% Asian, <0.1% from some other race and 0.4% from two or more competitions.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 25.73% White, 73.38% African American, 0.01% Native American, 0.46% Asian American, 0.16% from other competitions, and 0.27% from two or more competitions.
Because Indianola is positioned at the intersection of U.S.
Club Ebony in Indianola Todd Moye, author of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945 1986, said that "Life in Indianola still moves at a pace established by its distinguishing characteristic, the picturesque and languid Indian Bayou that winds through downtown." The blues harp player, Little Arthur Duncan, was born in Indianola in 1934. Henry Sloan lived in Indianola, and Charley Patton died near the city.
King interval up in Indianola as a child.
King referenced the town/city with the title of his 1970 album Indianola Mississippi Seeds.
King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center, a $14 million facility dedicated to King and the blues, opened in September 2008. Many street names are titled after King and his music, including B.B.
The Sunflower County Consolidated School District, headquartered in Indianola, operates enhance schools serving the city.
Residents are zoned to Lockard Elementary School (K-2), Carver Elementary School (3-6), Robert L.
Merritt Junior High School (7-9), and Gentry High School (10-12).
The precinct operates two other 10-12 schools, Indianola Career and Technical Center and Indianola Academic Achievement Academy. Previously the facilities were in the Indianola School District.
Indianola Academy, a private school and former segregation academy, is in Indianola.
As of 2012 most white teenagers in Indianola attend Indianola Academy freshwater the enhance high schools.
Sarah Carr of The Atlantic explained that there are two explanations of why the private academies in Indianola and other suburbs still exist.
One says that the enhance schools suffered from poor leadership and wrongdoing and that the private academies thrive because of the failings of the enhance schools, and the other says that the white leadership starved the enhance schools of resources after the academies were enacted, dominant to the failings of the enhance schools. There is one other private school, Restoration Ministries Christian Academy.
Prior to the school precinct consolidation , the Sunflower County School District had its command posts in the Sunflower County Courthouse in Indianola. The district's educational services building is along U.S.
As of 1996, 90 per cent of students in the Indianola School District were black.
Most of the white students who attend Indianola enhance schools transfer to private schools by junior high school. Indianola Post Office The United States Postal Service operates the Indianola Post Office. A mural, entitled White Gold in the Delta by WPA Section of Painting and Sculpture artist Beulah Bettersworth, was installed in the postal service in 1939.
Indianola Municipal Airport is positioned in unincorporated Sunflower County, near Indianola. is directed by the city. Indianola serves as the basis for the fictional "Loring, Mississippi" in works by Steve Yarbrough, including The End of California. Parts of the film The Chamber, starring Gene Hackman, were filmed in downtown Indianola.
From 1932 until 1934, Hortense Powdermaker conducted an anthropological study of the black improve in Indianola, which served as the basis for her book, After Freedom: A Cultural Study In the Deep South and mentioned in her book "Stranger and Friend.
John Dollard spent five months in Indianola conducting research for his 1937 book, Caste and Class in a Southern Town, which examined how those factors affected race relations in the non-urban South. While Indianola was not titled in the book, the eponymous "Southern Town" was based on the data he collected there.
Art students at Gentry High School in Indianola earned a listing in Guinness World Records on June 7, 2003, by creating the world's biggest comic strip in their school parking lot.
Indianola was used in the novel The Green Mile as the basis for medical exams and various misc.
According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Indianola has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945 1986.
"Delta Pride closes its Indianola catfish plant." Indianola School District.
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"200 Main Street / Courthouse Indianola, Mississippi 38751" "Demographics for Sunflower County Schools Archived 2013-03-23 at Web - Cite." Sunflower County School District.
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And the small number of caucasians who do send their kids to enhance schools usually switch to the academy once they reach junior high." "Post Office Location - INDIANOLA." "Minnie Cox Post Office Building".
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"Mississippi Delta High School Students Set World Record For Largest Comic Strip".
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