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    Drew is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,927 at the 2010 census. Drew is in the vicinity of several plantations...
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  • Drew or drew in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Drew may refer to: In the United States Drew, Georgia, an unincorporated community Drew, Mississippi...
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  • Drew High School was a public high school located in Drew, Mississippi. It was a part of the Drew School District. The school district's attendance boundary...
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    Archie Manning (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    preceded sons Peyton and Eli as a successful NFL quarterback. Born in Drew, Mississippi, Manning is the son of Jane Elizabeth (née Nelson) and Elisha Archibald...
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  • Tommy Johnson (musician) (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    1916 Johnson married and moved to Webb Jennings' plantation near Drew, Mississippi, close to the Dockery Plantation. There he met other musicians, including...
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    Pops Staples (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    Staples was born near Winona, Mississippi, the youngest of 14 children. He grew up on a cotton plantation near Drew, Mississippi. From his earliest years he...
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    Willie Brown (musician) (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    Evans reconstructed the early biography of a Willie Brown living in Drew, Mississippi, until 1929. He was married by 1911, when he was 10 or 11(?), to a...
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    The Staple Singers (category Mississippi Blues Trail)
    Oceola Staples, Cleotha was born in Drew, Mississippi, in 1934. Two years later, Roebuck moved his family from Mississippi to Chicago. Roebuck and Oceola's...
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  • Willie Louis (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    born in 1937 in Greenwood, Mississippi, at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta. He was raised in Drew, Mississippi, by his grandparents who worked...
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  • Charles Drew High School, Riverdale, Georgia Drew Charter School, Atlanta, Georgia Drew High School (Mississippi), former school in Drew, Mississippi This...
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  • Emmett Till (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    Mississippi. According to some witnesses, they took Till back to Bryant's Groceries and recruited two black men. The men then drove to a barn in Drew...
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    Oregon State Beavers. Eubanks was born in Starkville, Mississippi, and lived in Louisville, Mississippi, before moving to Troutdale, Oregon, at age 2. Eubanks...
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    Sunflower County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,971. Its largest city and county seat...
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    Ruleville is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta region. The population was 3,007 at the 2010 census. It is...
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  • Harold Dorman (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    American rock and roll singer and songwriter. Dorman was born in Drew, Mississippi. He wrote a song called "Mountain of Love", which he released as a...
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    election in Mississippi was held on November 5, 2024, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Mississippi. Incumbent Senator...
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    Mississippi State Penitentiary (MSP), also known as Parchman Farm, is a maximum-security prison farm located in the unincorporated community of Parchman...
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  • Wright Thompson (category People from Clarksdale, Mississippi)
    of the fourteen-year-old Black boy Emmett Till by white men near Drew, Mississippi. His 2017 article on Conor McGregor and Dublin for ESPN was criticised...
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    Joe Pullen (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    sharecropper who was lynched by a posse of local white citizens near Drew, Mississippi on December 15, 1923. While the circumstances that precipitated the...
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  • Boo Boo Davis (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    blues in the Mississippi Delta, having sung to help pass the time while picking the cotton fields. Davis was born in Drew, Mississippi, where he was...
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    The Mississippi River is the primary river of the largest drainage basin in the United States. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern...
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    The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi...
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    Oxford is the 14th most populous city in Mississippi, United States, and the county seat of Lafayette County, 75 miles (121 km) southeast of Memphis....
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  • Mississippi Burning is a 1988 American crime thriller film directed by Alan Parker and written by Chris Gerolmo that is loosely based on the 1964 murder...
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  • September 6, 2008. Habeshian, Sareen (February 18, 2023). "6 dead in Mississippi town shooting, suspect arrested". Axios. Archived from the original on...
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  • Mae Bertha Carter (category People from Drew, Mississippi)
    the Civil Rights Movement from Drew, Mississippi. Carter was born on January 13, 1923, in Sunflower County, Mississippi. In 1943 Mae Bertha married Mathew...
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    Bryce Homer Drew (born September 21, 1974) is an American college basketball coach and former player who is the head coach of the Grand Canyon Antelopes...
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  • licensed to serve Indianola, Mississippi, United States WNLA-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to serve Drew, Mississippi WDTL, a radio station (105...
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    Jackson is the capital of and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Mississippi. Along with Raymond, Jackson is one of two county seats for Hinds County...
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  • Land Plantation, approximately 2.5 mi (4.0 km) north of present-day Drew, Mississippi. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Promised...
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