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	Fly Away - The Great Migration
		The goal of Mound Bayou was to provide opportunities for individual advancement in a supportive environment, as well as to instill a sense of racial pride into all the residents.
		Mound Bayou provided a physical sanctuary for Africans Americans that was uncommon in any large scale in the South.
		In the early years of the community, Mound Bayou was home to a sawmill and a mercantile firm, as well as a post office and a one room school.
	northbysouth.kenyon.edu /1999/space/mounb.htm (475 words)

	Tony Dunbar, "The Train Doesn't Run There Anymore"
		Mound Bayou is a part of the Mississippi heritage that has not disappeared, but that has certainly suffered from neglect.
		While there are several new public buildings in Mound Bayou today, vestiges of the federal gravy train during the War on Poverty, the town suffers from much the same miasma that affects most little towns in the Delta.
		Because the people of Mound Bayou own much of the surrounding land, they are in a better position than most Delta fls to reap the benefits of any development the town may enjoy.
	www.soc.umn.edu /~samaha/cases/dunbar_mound_bayou.htm (1381 words)

	VisitClevelandMS.com
		One of the nation’s most historic fl culture sites is Mound Bayou, the oldest town in America founded by former slaves.
		Named after a nearby Indian mound where Native Americans performed ceremonies and escaped rising waters, Mound Bayou was founded in 1887 by ex-slaves Isaiah T. Montgomery and Benjamin T. Green.
		On the grounds of Mound Bayou’s City Hall is a carved wooden plaque depicting famous fl Americans.
	www.visitclevelandms.com /mdbayou (134 words)

	bayou on Encyclopedia.com
		Bayou is sometimes used as a synonym for oxbow lake, a former meander in a river valley cut off from that stream.
		Bayou Steel Corporation Fiscal 2000 Results; Crisis in Steel Industry Results in Adverse Impact.
		Bayou Steel Corporation Receives Extension of Exclusive Periods; Company Now Has Exclusive Right to File Plan of Reorganization through October 1, 2003.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/b1/bayou.asp (413 words)

	African American Registry: Mound Bayou, Miss. the FUBU of cities!
		Mound Bayou is one of the first incorporated Black Towns in the United States.
		Mound Bayou also had a railroad station (where the "colored" waiting room was larger than the "white" waiting room), a newspaper, many churches, schools, a bank, a telephone exchange, and other Black-owned businesses and industries.
		Around 1900, President Theodore Roosevelt called Mound Bayou “the Jewel of the Delta.” Recently the people of Mound Bayou hosted a public dig with the University of Southern Mississippi; they wanted to share their rich history.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2346/Mound_Bayou_Miss_the_FUBU_of_cities (301 words)

	Mound Bayou's Crisis \| TIME
		But Mound Bayou does have one civic asset: the Delta Community Hospital and Health Center Inc., a fl-run medical complex that provides the people of Bolivar and neighboring counties with first-rate health care regardless of their ability to pay.
		Mound Bayou's community hospital owes its existence to P.M. Smith, head of a fl fraternal organization called the International Order of Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor.
		Mound Bayou's latest trials began in 1973, when the Nixon Administration dismantled OEO and transferred its health-services program to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, which lacks the statutory authority to finance the hospital.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,943096,00.html (705 words)

	Mound Bayou, Mississippi MS, city profile (Bolivar County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk
		Mound Bayou is a city in Bolivar County, in the Cleveland metro area.
		At the time of the 2000 census, the per capita income in Mound Bayou was $8,227, compared with $21,587 nationally.
		Median rent in Mound Bayou, at the time of the 2000 Census, was $188.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19943 (536 words)

	African-American Archaeology at USM
		Mound Bayou is an all-fl town in the Mississippi Delta.
		Mound Bayou became a thriving community with nearly 200 residents by 1900, and more than 90 percent could read and write.
		In the words of one of the mayors, Benjamin A. Green (born in Mound Bayou in 1888), it was a town where a fl man could run for sheriff instead of from the sheriff.
	www.usm.edu /~antsoc/anthro/programs/afamarch.html (869 words)

	Benjamin T. Green, A Founder of Mound Bayou, MS
		The real history, however, and the accomplishments for which after periods must accord him credit, begins with his removal to Mound Bayou, 1887, whither he came with Isaiah T. Montgomery, in the settlement and development of the colony which still stands to his credit.
		Early in the history of Mound Bayou, he died, but his faithful works will forever live in the hearts of Mound Bayou Citizenry.
		Will Strong attended the first Public School of Mound Bayou and his wife, Charlotte Strong, was the first girl born there so they are personally acquainted with the early settlers and their history.
	www.angelfire.com /folk/gljmr/BTGreen.html (332 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow . Jim Crow Stories . People . Isaiah Montgomery \| PBS
		He named the settlement Mound Bayou after a large Native-American mound located at the center of the colony.
		Mound Bayou eventually grew to some 4,000 inhabitants, with 30,000 acres of land owned by the community, producing 3,000 bales of cotton and 2,000 bushels of corn annually on 6,000 acres of farmland.
		Mound Bayou received national recognition from Booker T. Washington and Theodore Roosevelt, both of whom visited and praised it.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/stories_people_mont.html (439 words)

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		Two years after the founding of Mound Bayou, at Clarksdale, Mississippi, the Mississippi Jurisdiction of the International Order of the Twelve Knights and Daughters of Tabor, Mississippi Jurisdiction, was organized, later to be headquartered at Mound Bayou, and destined to play a significant role in Mound Bayou's history.
		Washington said that Mound Bayou was "...not merely a town, but at the same time and in a very real sense of the word, a school.
		A visitor to Mound Bayou in 1915 wrote that though the schools were better than most he had seen for Blacks, he still cited the public schools as being inadequately equipped, running for only five months per year and the private schools for operating on a very slim budget.
	www.milewis.com /moundbayou/history.html (4031 words)

	Mound Bayou Telephone Company
		The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi has the distinction of being the oldest African American City in the United States.
		Located in the Delta of Mississippi, the local telephone company offers services to the towns of Mound Bayou and Winstonville in Bolivar County.
		FTC is currently involved in upgrading the facilities at Mound Bayou to allow for growth of the area.
	www.moundbayou.com (72 words)

	Clarksdale Press Register
		She was a retired employee of Mound Bayou School District after 30 years and was a resident of Mound Bayou.
		She was a member of Wanderer's Home Missionary Baptist Church in Mound Bayou.
		Survivors include her husband, Booker T. Scott of Mound Bayou; daughter, Gale Scott of Mound Bayou; three sons, Vinaris C. Scott of Clarksdale, Oscar King Jr.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?BRD=2038&dept_id=230615&newsid=17820601&PAG=461&rfi=9 (177 words)

	Mound Bayou, Mississippi & Shabazz High, Wisconsin - Curriculum Project
		This project is dedicated to Milburn Crowe and the residents of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, who opened their homes and hearts to us.
		The team involved in the development of "The Jewel of the Delta: Mound Bayou, Mississippi" curriculum project.
		Their support made it possible for the students to visit Mound Bayou, to organize a district-wide in-service training for teachers, and to present their curriculum to educators and students at the National Service Learning Conference in Orlando- where it was highlighted as a model for diversity education.
	www.madison.k12.wi.us /shabazz/Trips/Moundbayou/Credits.html (197 words)

	H-Net Review: Robert S. Wolff on A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine: Charles Banks of Mississippi
		The struggles of African Americans in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to maintain their autonomy despite monocultural dependence upon cotton and the predatorial behavior of white businessmen and speculators, forms the second.
		Founded in 1887 as an all-fl community with the support of the Louisville, New Orleans, and Texas Railroad, Mound Bayou was a haven for African Americans as violence against them rose precipitously in the last years of the nineteenth century.
		As a founder and the cashier of the Bank of Mound Bayou, Banks ensured that town residents could invest in their own community by borrowing in a neighborhood bank.
	www.h-net.org /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=110831100897075 (2002 words)

	The Booker T. Washington Papers, Vol.9, page 320, July 1907, U. of Illinois Press
		He believes that his work at Mound Bayou is only just begun and his townsmen share that belief.
		BTW befriended Banks's business enterprises as part of his encouragement of the town of Mound Bayou and of Banks as a symbol of fl economic success.
		He also was a land agent for the Y. Railroad, a merchant, and a lumber dealer in Mound Bayou.
	www.historycooperative.org /btw/Vol.9/html/320.html (521 words)

	The Clarion-Ledger: Mississippi's News Source
		Democratic presidential candidate the Rev. Al Sharpton will join the celebration of Mound Bayou's 116th birthday Sunday, his spokeswoman Rachel Noerdlinger said.
		After learning about Mound Bayou's history, Sharpton accepted an invitation to be a speaker at the closing ceremony of the celebration, Mayor Kennedy Johnson said.
		Mound Bayou, located in Bolivar County, is one of the first all-fl incorporated towns in the United States.
	www.clarionledger.com /news/0307/10/m10.html (158 words)

	From Haiti to Mound Bayou, Mississippi
		Founded in 1887 by the emancipated slaves of Joseph Davis, brother of Jefferson Davis (father of the Confederacy), Mound Bayou, Mississippi is one of America's oldest fl towns.
		A place of refuge for African Americans traveling in Mississippi during the turbulent 1880s, Mound Bayou continued that legacy and was an important sanctuary during Mississippi's Freedom Summer of 1964.
		Today one can visit Mound Bayou and view historic buildings and gravesites and visit Peter's Pottery, whose clayworks are collected by people from all over the world.
	home.earthlink.net /~lynnlinn/blacksanctuaries/id1.html (133 words)

	The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. Education \| PBS
		Have students access the Timeline on THE RISE AND FALL OF JIM CROW to determine what other events were occurring at the time of the establishment of Mound Bayou.
		Mound Bayou, "Jewel of the Delta," by Caneidra Chambers
		Have students summarize the research they've done on the Kansas emigration movement and the establishment of Mound Bayou.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/jimcrow/education_lesson3_steps.html (912 words)

	Landscape Archaeology: Resources for Community Archaeology
		Digging for the Dream in Mound Bayou," Amy L. Young, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, The University of Southern Mississippi; Milburn J. Crowe, Mound Bayou, Mississippi.
		Today, because of economic conditions, Mound Bayouans are struggling to survive and teach their youth about their important history and culture.
		The public dig which centered on a town lot behind the Bank of Mound Bayou and also contained their first City Hall, was aimed at involving young people in the discovery and preservation of their heritage.
	www.indiana.edu /~arch/saa/matrix/la/la_res19.html (303 words)

	Car Parts Mound Bayou > Used Auto N' Truck Parts > Mississippi Salvage Yard Finder
		Mound Bayou do-it-yourselfers, car repair shops, mechanics, body shop technicians and general public are welcomed to search our Mound Bayou Mississippi network of salvage yards.
		If you are looking for high quality used replacement parts in Mound Bayou Mississippi, then you are in the right website.
		The Mound Bayou group of used part sellers offer you an enormous range of used auto parts, engines, headlights, body parts, bumpers, accessories, and more.
	www.automotix.net /partshotline-mississippi-mound_bayou.html (288 words)

	Mound Bayou, Mississippi (MS) Detailed Profile - relocation, real estate, travel, jobs, hospitals, schools, crime, ...
		The ratio of number of residents in Mound Bayou to the number of sex offenders is 673 to 1.
		Mound Bayou-area historical tornado activity is slightly below Mississippi state average.
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	www.city-data.com /city/Mound-Bayou-Mississippi.html (1068 words)

	mound on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Such structures are found in many parts of the world, but the name is applied in particular to those of North America, ascribed to a people known as Mound Builders.
		Sometimes the term is also applied to heaps of community refuse, as in shell mound.
		Paleomagnetic determination of the age of the serpent mound structure (1).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m1/mound.asp (500 words)

	Covenant News - Service Friday for Mound Bayou Shooting Victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		MOUND BAYOU, MS (November 26, 2002) - A funeral service will be held Friday at Bethel AME Church in Mound Bayou for Katrina Honorable, 22, who died Sunday in a trauma center in Memphis, Tennessee, the victim of a shooting in Mound Bayou.
		Honorable's mother, Shirley Clifton, is among the lay leadership at Walk of Faith Covenant Church in Mound Bayou, according to Southeast Conference Supt.
		Both Miericke and Walk of Faith pastor Darryl Johnson ask for prayer for the family and for the people of Mound Bayou, a town of 2,000, as they deal with the tragedy.
	www.covchurch.org /cov/news/item2470.phtml (150 words)

	Amazon.com: "Mound City": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
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	www.amazon.com /phrase/Mound-City (477 words)

	38762 Zip Code (Mound Bayou, Mississippi) Detailed Profile - residents and real estate info
		Profiles Mound Bayou, MS (38762) houses, apartments, residents, cars, jobs...
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	www.city-data.com /zips/38762.html (949 words)

	Urban Life Center - Mound Bayou, MS 38762 - Reviews: Marriage & Family Counselors, Churches
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	MWP: Medgar Evers (1925-1963) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		He received his B.A. degree the next semester and they moved to Mound Bayou, Mississippi, during which time Evers began to establish local chapters of the NAACP throughout the Delta and organizing boycotts of gasoline stations that refused to allow fls to use their restrooms.
		He worked in Mound Bayou as an insurance agent until 1954, the year a Supreme Court decision ruled school segregation unconstitutional.
		Despite the court’s ruling, Evers applied for and was denied admission to the University of Mississippi Law School, but his attempt to integrate the state’s oldest public university attracted the attention of the NAACP’s national office, and that same year he was appointed Mississippi’s first field secretary for the NAACP.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/evers_medgar (1218 words)

	Mound Bayou police chief fired
		Mound Bayou Police Chief Floyd Pope will no longer serve as the town's top officer.
		Pope had been suspended without pay while the city looked into questions about his law enforcement certification.
		The Mound Bayou Board of Alderman said its investigation revealed Pope wasn't certified.
	www.wmctv.com /global/story.asp?s=4929666 (385 words)

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