Editing Eutaw, Alabama (section)

===20th century to present===
Agriculture continues to dominate the county's economy. Now conducted on an industrial scale, it has reduced the need for farm workers. Unemployment is high in the rural county.

[[James Bevel]], the main strategist and architect of the [[Civil Rights Movement]], was buried in [[Ancestors Village Cemetery]] in Eutaw on December 29, 2008. In addition to his early work in the [[Nashville Student Movement]] and Mississippi movement, Bevel initiated, planned, and directed the strategies for the 1963 [[Birmingham Children's Crusade]], the 1965 [[Selma to Montgomery march]], and the 1966 [[Chicago Open Housing Movement]].

Eutaw is home to the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] Convent of Our Lady of Consolata, the Consolata Sisters, a small monastery for nuns in West Alabama.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://consolatasisters.org/consolata-guild/|title=Consolata Guild}}</ref> They are known throughout Greene County for their humanitarian efforts.