Money, Mississippi
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GNIS feature ID | 673728[1] |
Money is an
Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.
History
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
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
- Richard "Hacksaw" Harney – Delta blues guitarist and pianist[12]
- James Schaffer– religious leader and centenarian
- Willye White – Olympic athlete[13]
In popular culture
A wooden bridge across the
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
- ^ a b "Money". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
- ^ 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.
- ISBN 978-0-486-48360-3.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Leflore County". Jim Forte Postal History. Retrieved November 1, 2015.
- ^ "Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False". Retrieved August 7, 2018.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Tell, David (April 2019). "Remembering Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi". Places.
- ^ "School Profile". Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District. Retrieved May 18, 2021.
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- U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved May 12, 2021.
- ^ "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).
- ISBN 9781135958329– via Google Books.
- ISBN 978-1-317-47744-0.
- ^ Tobler, John (1992). NME Rock 'N' Roll Years (1st ed.). London: Reed International Books Ltd. p. 239. CN 5585.