Money, Mississippi

Coordinates: 33°39′04″N 90°12′33″W / 33.65111°N 90.20917°W / 33.65111; -90.20917
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Money, Mississippi
UTC-5 (CDT)
GNIS feature ID673728[1]

Money is an

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Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

History

Bryant's Grocery, 2009. By 2018, it was described as "not much left" as preservation was hindered by its private owners.[2]

The settlement was named for Hernando Money, a United States Senator from Mississippi.[3] Money was a stop on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad.[4] This rural area was developed for cotton cultivation. The population in 1900 was 40.[4] The Money post office was established in 1901.[5]

Money gained international attention in 1955 after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago visiting his uncle, was accused of flirting, by means of whistling, with a white woman working alone at Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in Money. Till was subsequently murdered.[6]

A historic marker has been placed in front of Bryant's Grocery, and the site draws "an ever-increasing number of tourists". The crumbling building is privately owned, which has hindered efforts to preserve it.[7][8]

Education

It is in the

Greenwood-Leflore School District. Residents are zoned to Amanda Elzy High School.[9]

The town was formerly served by the Leflore County School District.[10] Effective July 1, 2019 this district consolidated into the Greenwood-Leflore School District.[11]

Notable people

In popular culture

A wooden bridge across the

Ode to Billie Joe." The November 10, 1967 issue of Life magazine featured a photo of Gentry crossing the bridge. The bridge collapsed in June 1972 after being burned by vandals.[14]
It has since been replaced.

The novel The Trees by Percival Everett is set in Money and depicts a mysterious series of murders that seem to follow identical patterns and involve the families of the confessed murderers of Emmett Till.

References

  1. ^ a b "Money". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Mitchell, Jerry (August 29, 2018). "'They just want history to die:' Owners demand $4 million for crumbling Emmett Till store". The Clarion Ledger. Retrieved August 30, 2019.
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  4. ^ a b Rowland, Dunbar (1907). Mississippi: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (PDF). Vol. 2. Southern Historical Publishing Association. p. 271.
  5. ^ "Leflore County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
  6. ^ "Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False". Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  7. ^ Burch, Audra D. S.; Shastri, Veda; Chaffee, Tim (February 20, 2019). "Emmett Till's Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments". The New York Times.
  8. ^ Tell, David (April 2019). "Remembering Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi". Places.
  9. ^ "School Profile". Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District. Retrieved May 18, 2021. Amanda Elzy currently services [...] including the towns of [...] Money, [...]
  10. U.S. Census Bureau
    . Retrieved May 12, 2021.
  11. ^ "School District Consolidation in Mississippi Archived 2017-07-02 at the Wayback Machine." Mississippi Professional Educators. December 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Page 2 (PDF p. 3/6).
  12. – via Google Books.
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  14. ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 239. CN 5585.