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Students were formerly zoned to East Sunflower Elementary School, until it closed in 2022. Students were reassigned to Ruleville Central Elementary. [6] Sunflower is also home to the Sunflower County Freedom Project, an independent, non-profit after-school program for middle- and high-school students, based on the Freedom Schools of the 1960s. [8]
Sunflower County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,971. [2] Its largest city and county seat is Indianola. [3] Sunflower County comprises the Indianola, MS Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Cleveland-Indianola, MS Combined Statistical Area.
Location of Sunflower County in Mississippi. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sunflower County, Mississippi. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Sunflower County, Mississippi" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Sunflower County population had jumped 80 percent in the decade after 1900. Most of the new arrivals were poor and Black. ... “A riot of extravagance followed,” one Mississippi history ...
Freedom Farm Cooperative was an agricultural cooperative in Sunflower County, Mississippi, founded by American civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer in 1967 as a rural economic development and political organizing project. The cooperative sought to uplift Black families through food provisions, such as vegetable gardens and pig-raising, and ...
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Mississippi that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on a heritage register, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
Dockery Plantation was a 25,600-acre (104 km 2) cotton plantation and sawmill in Dockery, Mississippi, on the Sunflower River between Ruleville and Cleveland, Mississippi. It is widely regarded as the place where Delta blues music was born. [2] Blues musicians resident at Dockery included Charley Patton, Robert Johnson and Howlin' Wolf.