The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, is a historic all-Black town founded in 1887 by formerly enslaved Black people who created a thriving haven for thousands of Black Americans during the Jim ...

Many people in Mississippi have wanted justice for Emmett Till — in the courts and on the big screen. The small historically Black town of Mound Bayou, Mississippi is doing its part. There is a ...

During Jim Crow, the town thrived as a center for Black enterprise – with its own hospital, insurance companies, credit unions, and newspapers. Like much of the Mississippi Delta, Mound Bayou is ...

Mound Bayou was a town that came up several ... this is the oldest and only remaining Black settlement west of the Mississippi River. Six Black entrepreneurs in Topeka joined a white developer ...

In the center of this historically Black city, once deemed ... but the closest hospital is in Cleveland, Mississippi, a 15-minute drive. Mound Bayou Mayor Leighton Aldridge, also a board ...

Mississippi, on July 19, 2023. The museum in Mound Bayou documents Black culture, including the life and death of Emmett Till. Through the Mound Bayou Museum of African American Culture and ...

Taking hold of his father’s dreams, Isaiah Montgomery built a Black town — Mound Bayou, Mississippi, where my oldest sister was born. He acquired wealth, and owned considerable property ...

More than half of Mississippi's rural hospitals are ... Taborian Hospital opened its doors in Mound Bayou in 1942 to treat Black patients like Scott-White's sister, who were turned away from ...

“It’s a part of my being.” Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was established to exclusively admit Black patients during a time when Jim Crow laws barred them from accessing the ...

The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, is a historic all-Black town founded in 1887 by formerly enslaved Black people who created a thriving haven for thousands of Black Americans during the Jim ...

Researchers have largely concluded that hospital desegregation improved the health of Black patients over the long term. Taborian Hospital in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, was established to ...