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5 lip 2023 · Filmmaker Talameika Brice coordinated with others to establish a trail marker honoring two Duck Hill, Miss., lynching victims known as Bootjack and Red.
3 mar 2021 · The rural town of Duck Hill, Mississippi, is working hard to revitalize its downtown. To jumpstart the process, it’s repurposing a former high school into a center for arts, culture, and community.
8 lip 2021 · Thursday, Judge Mary Brown swore in Mayor Al White, Alderman Christopher Caldwell and Alderwoman Shernell Everett at a packed house at Binford United Methodist Church. White, Caldwell and Everett were sworn in by their children and grandchild, Alejandro White, Crystal Caldwell and Jatya Boclear.
16 mar 2023 · A historical marker commemorating the tragic lynching and torture deaths of Robert “Bootjack” McDaniels and Roosevelt “Red” Townes will be unveiled in Duck Hill, Mississippi on April 13, 2023.
15 wrz 2023 · When Al White was growing up in a three-room shotgun house in Duck Hill, Mississippi – the town for which he today serves as mayor – the hours were imbued with the sounds of the outside world. He and his brothers woke up to WONA-1570, a country music station in Winona, 10 miles down the road.
11 lip 2021 · Alphonso “Al” White defeated incumbent Joey Cooley and four others in the mayor’s race for the Montgomery County town of approximately 800 residents just south of Grenada, MS. Cooley, who is an assistant principal and boys basketball head coach at Grenada High School, served as mayor for 20 years.
On April 13, 1937, Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels, two black men, were lynched in Duck Hill, Mississippi by a white mob after being labeled as the murderers of a white storekeeper. [1] [2] [3] They had only been legally accused of the crime a few minutes before they were kidnapped from the courthouse, chained to trees, and tortured with ...
