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    Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,533 at the 2010 census, down from 2,102 in 2000. It was founded...
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    Isaiah Montgomery (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    1924) was the founder of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community. A Republican, he was a delegate to the 1890 Mississippi Constitutional Convention...
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  • Kennedy Memorial High School was a public secondary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, United States, serving grades 7–12. At the end of its life it...
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    Medgar Evers (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Kenyatta, Reena Denise, and James Van Dyke Evers. The couple moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, a town developed by African Americans after the Civil War. Evers...
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  • Mound Bayou Public School District was a public school district with its headquarters in Mound Bayou, Mississippi (USA). In addition to Mound Bayou,...
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    I. T. Montgomery House (category Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    T. Montgomery House is a historic house on West Main Street in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, United States. Built in 1910, it was the home of Isaiah Montgomery...
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    Myrlie Evers-Williams (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    moved to Mound Bayou, where they had their first child, Darrell Kenyatta, named for the imprisoned African leader, Jomo Kenyatta. In Mound Bayou, Myrlie...
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    Minnie L. Fisher (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    community activist. She was a native-born citizen of the town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-Black town founded by Isaiah Montgomery in 1887. Minnie...
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    Plum Bayou Mounds Archeological State Park (3 LN 42), formerly known as "Toltec Mounds Archeological State Park", also known as Knapp Mounds, Toltec Mounds...
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  • Kevin Henry (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Steelers. He played college football for Mississippi State University. Henry was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, in 1968 and attended John F. Kennedy Memorial...
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    Fannie Lou Hamer (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    illegal segregation. Hamer died on March 14, 1977, aged 59, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. Her memorial service was widely attended and her eulogy was delivered...
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  • Taborian Hospital (category Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi opened in 1942 to great fanfare by the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor. Everyone...
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    Mississippi towns of Mound Bayou, Coahoma, and Friars Point, and served as attorney for the Bolivar County Board of Supervisors and the Mound Bayou School...
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    William Thornton Montgomery (category People from Warren County, Mississippi)
    alongside his younger brother, Isaiah Montgomery, who later founded Mound Bayou, Mississippi, an all-black community. As a child, Montgomery experienced the...
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  • T. R. M. Howard (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    first chief surgeon. The IOTKDT is a fraternal organization, in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, founded, occupied and governed by freedmen after the Civil War...
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  • Ed Townsend (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Summer 2016. Retrieved August 18, 2016. "Mound Bayou Blues". Msbluestrail.org. Retrieved August 18, 2016. "Mound Bayou Blues historical marker". Hmdb.org....
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  • Mentor, persuaded the Mississippi Jurisdiction of the order to build a hospital in the all-black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi. To pay for it, each...
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  • O.B. Buchana (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    blues singer and musician. He was born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and grew up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, beginning singing gospel songs from the age...
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    public showdown with T. R. M. Howard, a civil rights leader from Mound Bayou, Mississippi. During a national speaking tour, Howard had criticized the FBI's...
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  • WZYQ (category Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    radio station. The station is licensed to Mound Bayou, Mississippi and serves Cleveland and Shelby in Mississippi. WZYQ is licensed to Fenty L. Fuss and...
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    Mel Reynolds (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Reynolds and his twin brother, Marvin Jerry Reynolds, were born in Mound Bayou, Mississippi to Reverend J. J. Reynolds and Essie Mae Prather. Reynolds moved...
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    Former school districts: Benoit School District (Benoit) Mound Bayou School District (Mound Bayou) Shaw School District (Shaw) The five school districts...
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  • Claiborne County and is designated by the US Census Bureau as "Alcorn State, Mississippi". Part of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Part of the National...
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  • Grand Bayou is an unincorporated Native American community in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. The coastal village is home to the Atakapa Ishak Chawasha...
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    culture based on the Toltec Mounds site and named it for a local waterway. The Baytown culture (300 to 650 CE) preceded the Plum Bayou culture, and was then...
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    founder, mayor of (Mound Bayou, Mississippi) Sonny Montgomery (1920–2006), U.S. representative (Meridian) Mike Moore (born 1952), Mississippi attorney general...
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    oldest known and dated mound complex in North America. It is one of 11 mound complexes from this period found in the Lower Mississippi Valley. These cultures...
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  • Ben Montgomery (category Montgomery family of Mississippi)
    community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, and "pursued racial harmony through accommodation" in his participation in the 1890 Mississippi constitutional...
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  • infrastructure has not begun. Brooklyn, Illinois Eatonville, Florida Mound Bayou, Mississippi Nicodemus, Kansas Robbins, Illinois Soul City, North Carolina National...
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    Katie Hall (American politician) (category People from Mound Bayou, Mississippi)
    Bessie Mae (Hooper) Green at Mound Bayou in Bolivar County, Mississippi. She attended the public schools of Mound Bayou and earned a Bachelor of Science...
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