Editing Lowndes County, Mississippi (section)

==History==
This upland area was settled by European Americans who wanted to develop cotton plantations to produce what became the largest commodity crop in the state.

In the period from 1877 to 1950, Lowndes County had 19 documented [[Lynching in the United States|lynchings of African Americans]], third to [[Carroll County, Mississippi|Carroll]] and [[Leflore County, Mississippi|Leflore]] counties, which had 29 and 48, respectively. This form of racial terrorism was at its height in the decades around the turn of the 20th century, which followed the state's [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disenfranchisement of most blacks]] in 1890 through creating barriers to voter registration.<ref>[https://eji.org/sites/default/files/lynching-in-america-third-edition-supplement-by-county.pdf ''Lynching in America'', 3rd edition]{{Dead link|date=March 2020|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}, Supplement by County, p. 6</ref>