Mound Bayou

A couple of years ago for Idol Gives Back, Morgan Freeman and I visited Mound Bayou, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of America.

Randy Jackson: Fighting Childhood Poverty: A Role for Everyone Randy Jackson 2012

A couple of years ago for Idol Gives Back, Morgan Freeman and I visited Mound Bayou, a small town in the Mississippi Delta, one of the poorest regions of America.

Randy Jackson: Fighting Childhood Poverty: A Role for Everyone Randy Jackson 2012

In 1942 he came to Mississippi to become chief surgeon at the Taborian Hospital in the allblack town of Mound Bayou.

‘Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard’s Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power’ 2009

Helen Boyd and her husband, Theodore R. M. Howard, lived in the all-black city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi.

THE REAL PEPSI CHALLENGE Stephanie Capparell 2007

I mean all of Mound Bayou and all of that is essentially theirs.

Oral History Interview with Hodding Carter, April 1, 1974. Interview A-0100. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1974

And she was from Mound Bayou, Mississippi and she was lonely for the South and she and I would discuss southern problems everytime she came to wash my hair.

Oral History Interview with Louise Young, February 14, 1972. Interview G-0066. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1972

Because of the success of this trip, a number of prominent coloured men of Mississippi - among them Mr. Charles Banks and Mr. Isaiah T. Montgomery of Mound Bayou, a unique Negro town in Mississippi, Mr.E. P. Simmons, Mr. Perry

Finding a way out : an autobiography, 1921

Kentucky, in 1790; and a mixed Baptist Church in the Mound Bayou, Mississippi district, in 1805, by Joseph Willis, a free Negro born in South Carolina in 1762. 2 2

The History of the Negro Church 1921

One of the most interesting talks at this meeting was that of Charles Banks of Mound Bayou, Miss.

Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916

We have there the little town of Mound Bayou, which it is our privilege to represent, and so far as its management or government is concerned, we have control of everything.

Booker T. Washington Builder of A Civilization Emmett Jay 1916