Mound Bayou flourished between 1907 and 1915 as a railroad hub, enabling it to reach 8,000 people by 1911. A dramatic decline occurred during the Great Migration (1915-1930) ...

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Herman Johnson, Jr., director of the Mound Bayou Museum in Mound Bayou, Mississippi. He points to a 1955 photo display in the museum of Mamie Till, Cong. Charles Diggs, Dr. T.R.M. Howard and ...

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 Crow era.