Editing Glendora, Mississippi (section)

==History==
Glendora was developed by White Americans as a small sawmill site. Logs were floated down the river from around the vicinity of [[Webb, Mississippi|Webb]] to be processed here.{{citation needed|date=October 2022}}

The first settlement developed two miles south of Glendora at Black Bayou. When the railroad was built through the territory in 1883, a station was located there and called Glendora. The town immediately grew. A post office was established in 1900 and a voting precinct was established.

Cane Lake Lumber Company built a large sawmill here which operated until 1909. It was moved to another site.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mt. Calvery M.B. Church Cemetery, Tallahatchie County, MSGenWeb Project, A USGenWeb Project Website |url=http://www.msgw.org/tallahatchie/cemeteries/mtcalmbchurch.html |access-date=October 19, 2022 |website=www.msgw.org}}</ref>

In December 1955, Elmer Kimbrell, a white man, shot and killed Clinton Melton, an African-American resident, in front of three witnesses after an argument about how much gas Melton had pumped into Kimbrell's car. Kimbrell was acquitted by an [[all-white jury]] after a short trial.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Elmer O. Kimbrell |url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/till/FBI_Persons%20Involved_Elmer%20Kimbrell.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tell |first=Dave |title=The Murder of Clinton Melton - Another Murder, Another White Man, Another Acquittal. Or How County Lines Are Shaping Till's Story |url=https://tillapp.emmett-till.org/items/show/18 |access-date=October 19, 2022 |website=Emmett Till Memory Project |language=en-US}}</ref> Shortly before this murder, he was involved in the [[Emmett Till]] murder in [[Money, Mississippi|Money]], Mississippi.<ref>{{cite report |date=February 9, 2006 |title=Prosecutive Report if Investigation Concerning &#91;...&#93; Elmer O. Kimbrell |url=https://vault.fbi.gov/Emmett%20Till%20/Emmett%20Till%20Part%2001%20of%2002 |publisher=[[Federal Bureau of Investigation]] |page=28; 37 |docket=Case ID 44A-JN-30112 and 62D-JN-30045 |access-date=March 14, 2021 |quote=In December 1955, Kimbrell shot and killed Clinton Melton, a black man. &#91;...&#93; Kimbrell was acquitted when prosecuted for Melton's murder. &#91;...&#93; August 28, 1955 - Time Unknown, Early Morning: Roy Bryant, J.W. Milam and a man named Kimbrell brought &#91;Emmett&#93; Till to &#91;...&#93; Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market }}</ref> At this time, most blacks in Mississippi were still [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchised]] due to state barriers; they were not part of the jury pool because they were not registered voters and they were excluded from the political system.