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Leflore County was a major site of activism and violence during the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).
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Pillow Academy in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood, enrolls some students from Washington County.
* Leflore County ( south )
Later the county seat was moved to McNutt, also in the Leflore County of today.
When Sunflower and Leflore Counties were separated in 1871, the new county seat for Sunflower County was moved to Johnsonville.
* Leflore County ( east )
Pillow Academy in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood, enrolls some students from Sunflower County.
Leflore County is a county located in the Mississippi Delta region of the U. S. state of Mississippi.
Leflore County is named for Choctaw leader Greenwood LeFlore.
Leflore County was formed in 1871 from portions of Carroll, Sunflower and Tallahatchie counties.
According to the census of 2000, the largest ancestry groups in Leflore County were African 67. 73 %, English 19 %, and Scots-Irish 9. 4 %
The Delta Correctional Facility, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in Greenwood in Leflore County.
** Leflore County School District
* National Register of Historic Places listings in Leflore County, Mississippi
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Leflore and was
It was named for Greenwood Leflore, a Choctaw chief, who was one of the signers of the Treaty of 1830, by the terms of which the Choctaws sold all their lands east of the Mississippi River.
Marion Barry was born in Leflore County, Mississippi, the third of ten children.
When Leflore was 22, he became a chief of the western division of the Choctaw Nation, when it was still in Mississippi.
Leflore was an admirer of Napolean Bonaparte and Josephine, and had the house designed in French style.
In February, the Jackson Clarion-Ledger reported that both the FBI and a Leflore County Grand Jury, which was empaneled by Joyce Chiles, a black prosecutor, had found no credible basis for Keith Beauchamp's claim that fourteen individuals took part in Till's abduction and murder or that any are still alive.
Leflore and major
Zion Memorial Fund through a major grant from Columbia Records and a number of smaller grants from organizations and individuals across the U. S. The site now appears on numerous tour itineraries and is promoted by Leflore County.
Leflore and Civil
The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed suit against the city of Greenwood and Leflore county to obtain their release.
County and was
He was finally found in the Bates Hole region of Natrona County, two counties away.
For example, he captured some persons from York County, who with teams were taking to Philadelphia the furniture of a man who had just been released from prison through the efforts of his wife, and who apparently was helpless to prevent the theft of his household goods.
In presenting plans for such express buses before the Montgomery County Council, the administrator of the NCTA, C. Darwin Stolzenbach, was frankly seeking support for the projects his agency will soon be launching.
Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.
Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.
This was built by John Templeman from plans submitted by James Finley of Fayette County, Pennsylvania.
The Essex bridge was a toll crossing until 1868, when the County Commissioners laid out all the Merrimack bridges as highways.
The matter got into the courts this way: One of the early strikes called by the AWOC was at the DiGiorgio pear orchards in Yuba County.
Service running through Barnumville and to Bennington County towns east of the mountains was in the hands of the `` Gleason Telephone Company '' in 1925, but major supervision of telephone lines in Manchester was with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company, which eventually gained all control.
`` In 1951 she was a prostitute in New York County.
Rep. James Cotten of Weatherford insisted that a water development bill passed by the Texas House of Representatives was an effort by big cities like Dallas and Fort Worth to cover up places like Paradise, a Wise County hamlet of 250 people.
Sandman, state campaign chairman for Jones, was addressing a meeting in the Military Park Hotel, Newark, of Essex County leaders and campaign managers for Jones.
The candidacy of Mayor James J. Sheeran of West Orange, for the Republican nomination for sheriff of Essex County, was supported today by Edward W. Roos, West Orange public safety commissioner.
Petitions asking for a jail term for Norristown attorney Julian W. Barnard will be presented to the Montgomery County Court Friday, it was disclosed Tuesday by Horace A. Davenport, counsel for the widow of the man killed last Nov. 1 by Barnard's hit-run car.
-- For a second month in a row, Multnomah County may be short of general assistance money in its budget to handle an unusually high summer month's need, the state public welfare commission was told Friday.
Of Scotch-Irish-Scandinavian descent, Greer Garson was born in County Down, Ireland.
Abraham Lincoln was born February 12, 1809, the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Lincoln ( née Hanks ), in a one-room log cabin on the Sinking Spring Farm in Hardin County, Kentucky ( now LaRue County ).
Lincoln's paternal grandfather and namesake, Abraham, had moved his family from Virginia to Jefferson County, Kentucky, where he was ambushed and killed in an Indian raid in 1786, with his children, including Lincoln's father Thomas, looking on.
Lincoln's mother, Nancy, was the daughter of Lucy Hanks, and was born in what is now Mineral County, West Virginia, then part of Virginia.
The family moved north across the Ohio River to free ( i. e., non-slave ) territory and made a new start in what was then Perry County but is now Spencer County, Indiana.
Jackson's father was born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, in current-day Northern Ireland, around 1738.
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