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What Happened To Mound Bayou? An All-Black Town Founded By Formerly Enslaved Black People

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mississippi Delta at sunset Booker T. Washington once called Mound Bayou a model of “thrift and self-government.” He called it ...
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Here's What's Become Of A Historic All-Black Town In The Mississippi Delta

Teddy Roosevelt proclaimed it "The Jewel of the Delta." Booker T. Washington praised it as a model of "thrift and self-government." Mound Bayou, in the Mississippi Delta: a town founded in 1887 by ...
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Founded by Freedmen, Forgotten by Textbooks: The Men Reviving Mound Bayou

MOUND BAYOU, Mississippi — On an early summer morning, Hermon Johnson Jr. walked the halls of the former band hall of the John F. Kennedy High School surrounded by archival photographs and rotating ...
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Black hospitals vanished in the U.S. decades ago. Some communities have paid a price

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. — In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all ...
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Most Black hospitals across the South closed long ago. Their impact endures

MOUND BAYOU, Miss. — In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed “the jewel of the Delta” by President Theodore Roosevelt, dreams to revitalize an abandoned hospital building have all ...