Mississippi Civil Rights Project

History of the 82 counties

Background/History

Frank R Parker in his book Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965 describes Greenwood, the county seat of Leflore County, as being the "testing ground for democracy for the

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Cleve Jordan, Sam Block, James Bevel, and Amzie Moore
Cleve Jordan of Greenwood, Sam Block and others like James Bevel of Itta Bena, Amzie Moore of Cleveland and Fannie Lou Hamer of Ruleville, were able to mobilize existing churches and civic organizatio

Places

Money
On August 24, 1955, Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy visiting relatives in Mississippi, went with a group of other children to the Bryant's Grocery and Meat Market in Money, Mississippi, to get

Events

End of the Federal Food Program
Date of Event:
October 1962
In October, 1962, the white county board of supervisors cut off a federal food program, a program that gave 27,000 people in the county, a large part of them black, aid on which to survive.

Organizations

SNCC, CORE, COFO of Leflore
National support to the local region that ultimately helped turned the tide toward voting equality came to Leflore County in the 1960s.
NAACP of Leflore County
Leflore County was where early local civil rights efforts met the national movement. This collision caused conflict early in the Civil Rights Movement.