Editing Duck Hill, Mississippi (section)

===20th century to present===
In 1930, the Lloyd T. Binford High School opened in Duck Hill. (It was named for [[Lloyd Binford|Lloyd T. Binford]], a [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] insurance executive and film censor, and the son of state senator James R. Binford. Lloyd Binford was noted for his views on "Southern womanhood" and [[white supremacy]].) The city also built an agriculture education facility for its vocational students, who were overwhelmingly African American in the segregated system.

A new elementary school was constructed in 1963. The schools have since been closed because of declining population in the town.

The high school's gymnasium is used as a community center. In 2012, a committee of volunteers was established to preserve the high school, which has suffered from vandalism.<ref>{{cite web | title = Group Hopes Schools Can Again Serve Community | publisher = Grenada Star | date = August 31, 2012 | url = http://www.grenadastar.com/v2/content.aspx?module=ContentItem&ID=245753&MemberID=1218 | access-date = August 9, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221710/http://www.grenadastar.com/v2/content.aspx?module=ContentItem&ID=245753&MemberID=1218 | archive-date = March 3, 2016 | url-status = dead | df = dmy-all }}</ref>

During World War II, African Americans from across the country were among soldiers trained and stationed in the South. Many resented the [[racial segregation in the United States|segregation]] of public facilities they were forced to observe. In 1943, fifteen armed black soldiers from nearby [[Camp McCain]] came to Duck Hill during the night and began firing into the town. There were no injuries. The soldiers were upset about a recent white assault against a group of black soldiers at nearby [[Starkville, Mississippi|Starkville]].<ref>{{cite book | last = Dougherty | first = Kevin  | title = Weapons of Mississippi | publisher = University Press of Mississippi | year = 2010 | isbn = 9781604734522 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=2pMqE2E63XgC&pg=PP1}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Orr-Klopfer | first = M. Susan  | title = Where Rebels Roost: Mississippi Civil Rights Revisited | publisher = M. Susan Klopfer | year = 2005 | isbn = 9781411641020 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=jLKMFlLhCx0C&pg=PP1}}</ref>

Senator [[Trent Lott]], whose father [[sharecropping|sharecropped]] a stretch of cotton field in Duck Hill during the 1940s, said in 1999 while supporting a bill for public education:
{{quote|I am a product of public education from the first grade through the second, third, and fourth grades where I went to school at Duck Hill, Mississippi, and I had better teachers in the second, third, and fourth grades in Duck Hill, Mississippi, than I had the rest of my life.<ref>{{cite news | title = Iona Watson Lott (Obituary) | newspaper = Rome News-Tribune | date = July 12, 2005 | url = https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=W-QyAAAAIBAJ&pg=4253%2C3521995}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = REAUTHORIZING THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 | work = [[Congressional Record]] | publisher = U.S. Government Printing Office | year = 1999 | url = http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRECB-1999-pt16/html/CRECB-1999-pt16-Pg22592-4.htm}}</ref>}}