Belzoni (/bɛlˈzoʊnə/ bel-ZOHN-ə) is a city in Humphreys County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta region, on the Yazoo River. The population...

Battista Belzoni (Italian pronunciation: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista belˈtsoːni]; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a...

Belzoni may refer to: Belzoni, Mississippi Belzoni, Oklahoma Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, a prolific Italian...

to Lawrence Gordon. The Gordons were raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi. Gordon was married to his wife, Lynda, for 50 years until he died...

county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,785. Its county seat is Belzoni. The county is named for Benjamin...

(2001), and Prey (2022). Gordon was raised in a Jewish family in Belzoni, Mississippi. He graduated from Tulane University in New Orleans. After moving...

president of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership and head of the Belzoni, Mississippi, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...

colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi". Prints & Photographs Online Catalog. Library of Congress...

Inverness, Mississippi, and spent his early childhood in Belzoni. He was born into a family of ten children, whose father was a Mississippi sharecropper...

farm-raised catfish are grown within a 65-mile (100-km) radius of Belzoni, Mississippi. Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) supports a $450 million/yr...

Blues Hall of Fame. Perkins was born in Belzoni, Mississippi and raised on a plantation in Honey Island, Mississippi. He began his career as a guitarist but...

and take up other paid labor to support her family. She was raised in Belzoni from age seven and sang in church choirs for local gospel groups around...

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...

posts on varied boards and organizations. Washington was born in Belzoni, Mississippi, and his family moved to Flint, Michigan, when Washington was an...

Velma Jean Terrell Born (1944-11-26) November 26, 1944 (age 79) Belzoni, Mississippi, U.S. Origin Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Genres R&B soul jazz Occupation(s)...

Timaka James-Jones serves as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 51st District, affiliating with the Democratic Party, a position...

as Baptists, their mother's faith. Mohamed attended Belzoni High School in Belzoni, Mississippi. In 1942, he was the first 18-year-old draft into World...

provides a fairly direct link between Yazoo City and Belzoni. The old highway segment, renamed Mississippi Highway 149, passes through Panther Swamp National...

Nickname "The Greatest" "The Octopus" Hometown Louisville, Kentucky Belzoni, Mississippi Purse $600,000 $210,000 Pre-fight record 27–0 (22 KO) 39–4 (18 KO)...

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2...

turbulent one. In early 1934, both of them were incarcerated in a Belzoni, Mississippi, jailhouse after a particularly harsh fight. W. R. Calaway from Vocalion...

is a private, nonsectarian, school in Belzoni, Mississippi (United States). Located at 800 Pluck Road in Belzoni, the school serves students in grades...

Civil War. As an adult, Courts eventually owned a grocery store in Belzoni, Mississippi. Courts was involved in the local civil rights movement in the 1940s...

site) across a 100-mile (160 km) range to the Jaketown Site near Belzoni, Mississippi. Poverty Point is a 1 square mile (2.6 km2) complex of six major...

17–22. Clark attended high school in Belzoni, Mississippi and played college football at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) before graduating in 1950...

Humphreys County High School (HCHS) is a public senior high school in Belzoni, Mississippi, United States and a part of the Humphreys County School District...

up alongside his car and shot him several times on 7 May 1955, in Belzoni, Mississippi. After local and state authorities insisted that the death was a...

grandmother, Jannie Mae Howard, was the daughter of sharecroppers from Belzoni, Mississippi. She had four daughters by her 19th birthday, including Howard's...

to Joanne, an unwed teenage mother from Greenwood, Mississippi, and Knox, from Belzoni, Mississippi. Adopted at the age of one week, she grew up as the...

Willie York Born (1944-09-21)September 21, 1944 Belzoni, Mississippi Died January 23, 2019(2019-01-23) (aged 74) Peoria, Illinois Nationality American...