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Leflore County was formed in 1871 from portions of Carroll, Sunflower and Tallahatchie counties.
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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 a major site of activism and violence during the African-American Civil Rights Movement ( 1955 – 1968 ).
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.
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Pillow Academy in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood, enrolls some students from Grenada County.
Pillow Academy in unincorporated Leflore County, near Greenwood, enrolls some students from Carroll County.
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.
The Tallahatchie River flows from Tippah County, Mississippi to Leflore County, Mississippi, where it joins the Yalobusha River to form the Yazoo River.
Category: People from Leflore County, Mississippi
Leflore and Carroll
It includes all or part of the following counties: Washington, DeSoto, Humphreys, Carroll, Issaquena, Panola, Quitman, Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Sunflower, Sharkey, Tunica, Tallahatchie, Holmes, Yazoo, and Warren.
Leflore and Sunflower
The land mass encompassed most of Sunflower and Leflore Counties as we know them today.
Leflore and Tallahatchie
Minter City is an unincorporated community in northern Leflore County, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta on the Leflore County / Tallahatchie County county line.
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Many of them migrated to the Indian Territory ( now Oklahoma ), but Leflore himself remained, becoming a planter, and at times a politician.
The United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division filed suit against the city of Greenwood and Leflore county to obtain their release.
In June 1963, 45 residents of Itta Bena were arrested in Leflore county while marching to protest an attack on churches where voter registration drives were being held.
Morgan City is a town in Leflore County, Mississippi, northeast of Swiftown and south-southwest of Itta Bena along Mississippi Highway 7.
The Town of Morgan City is served by the Leflore County School District.
Schlater is a town in Leflore County, Mississippi.
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