Editing Tchula, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Woodrow Adams]], [[Delta blues]] guitarist and [[harmonica]] player<ref name="LarkinBlues">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Who's Who of Blues]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1995|edition=Second|isbn=0-85112-673-1|pages=11/12}}</ref>
* [[Yvonne Brown]] (1952–2012), mayor of Tchula and the first black Republican female mayor in Mississippi, served from 2001 to 2009. She was the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[Mississippi's 2nd congressional district]] in [[United States House of Representatives elections in Mississippi, 2006#District 2|2006]].
* [[Jimmy Dawkins]] (1936–2013), blues guitarist and singer,<ref name=Samaha/> who moved to [[Chicago]] at 18 or 19
* [[Bess Phipps Dawson]], painter and gallerist<ref name=missstory>{{cite book|last1=Black|first1=Patti Carr|title=The Mississippi Story|date=2007|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|location=Oxford, Mississippi|isbn=9781887422147|page=37|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D932HeqCSxgC&dq=Bess+Phipps+Dawson&pg=PA37}}</ref>
* [[Lester Davenport]] (1932–2009), blues musician<ref name=Samaha/>
* [[Chris Epps]], former commissioner of the [[Mississippi Department of Corrections]],<ref>Pettus, Emily Wagster. "[http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/8/epps-star-falls-in-miss-after-federal-indictment/?page=all Epps’ star falls in Miss. after federal indictment]" ([https://web.archive.org/web/20150227203150/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/nov/8/epps-star-falls-in-miss-after-federal-indictment/?page=all Archive]). ''[[Washington Times]]''. November 8, 2014. Retrieved on February 27, 2015.</ref> pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges<ref name=Blinder>{{cite news|author=Blinder, Alan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/us/christopher-epps-former-mississipi-prisons-chief-pleads-guilty-in-corruption-case.html|title=Former Mississippi Officials Plead Guilty in a Graft Case Involving Private Prisons|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 25, 2015|access-date=February 27, 2015}}</ref>
* [[Addison Grace Hadley]] - [[Miss United States]] 2023
* [[Johnny Mitchell]], former [[National Football League]] [[tight end]]<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Timothy W. |title=Mitchell is Part City and Part Country |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1992/04/28/sports/pro-football-part-city-part-country-and-perhaps-one-day-all-pro.html |access-date=May 30, 2021 |work=New York Times |date=April 28, 1992}}</ref>
* [[Little Smokey Smothers]] (1939–2010), blues guitarist and singer
* [[Hartman Turnbow]] (1905–1988), one of the first blacks in Mississippi to register to vote in the 1960s since  disfranchisement in 1890<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mscivilrightsproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49:hartman-turnbow&catid=308:person&Itemid=34|title=Hartman Turnbow – Mississippi Civil Rights Project|publisher=mscivilrightsproject.org|access-date=February 28, 2015}}</ref>