Editing Greenwood, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
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* [[Valerie Brisco-Hooks]], Olympic athlete<ref>{{cite news|title=Stardom Comes too Slowly for Speedster|publisher=The Record|date=February 11, 1985|author=Mike Celizic|page=s09}}</ref>
* [[C. C. Brown]], professional football player<ref>{{cite web | title = C.C. Brown | publisher = Detroit Lions | url = http://www.detroitlions.com/team/roster/C.C.-Brown/f38cc972-654f-4f02-9f0d-4c2f3664d32f | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100526085853/http://www.detroitlions.com/team/roster/C.C.-Brown/f38cc972-654f-4f02-9f0d-4c2f3664d32f | access-date = March 23, 2023| archive-date = 2010-05-26 }}</ref>
* [[Nora Jean Bruso]], blues singer and songwriter<ref name="AMG">{{cite web|author=Richard Skelly |url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/nora-jean-bruso-mn0000232605 |title=Nora Jean Bruso &#124; Biography & History |website=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=2015-12-16}}</ref>
* [[Louis Coleman]], Major League Baseball pitcher<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/player.php?p=colemlo01|title = Louis Coleman Stats|publisher=Baseball Almanac|access-date= July 18, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Byron De La Beckwith]], white supremacist, assassin of civil rights leader [[Medgar Evers]]<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875008-2,00.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080405174115/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,875008-2,00.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 5, 2008 | title =  A Little Abnormal: The Life of Byron De La Beckwith | magazine = [[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date = July 5, 1963 | access-date = January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Carlos Emmons (American football)|Carlos Emmons]], professional football player<ref>{{cite news|title=Football Signings in the Mid-South|newspaper=The Commercial Appeal|date=February 7, 1991|page=D5}}</ref> 
* [[Betty Everett]], R&B vocalist and pianist<ref>{{cite news| title = Betty Everett, 61, of 'The Shoop Shoop Song'| newspaper = New York Times| date = August 23, 2001| url = http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00817F63F550C708EDDA10894D9404482| access-date = January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[James L. Flanagan]], electrical engineer and speech scientist
* [[Alphonso Ford]], professional basketball player<ref>{{cite news|title=Ford left huge legacy in Euroleague basketball|publisher=Greenwood Commonwealth|date=October 29, 2009|author=Bryan Crawford}}</ref>
* [[Webb Franklin]], United States congressman<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=F000347|access-date=January 26, 2014|title=Franklin, William Webster, (1941 - )|publisher=U.S. Congress}}</ref>
* [[Morgan Freeman]], actor<ref name=carl>{{cite news|title= Carl Small Town Center Continues Making a Difference in the Delta|publisher=US Fed News|date=December 4, 2013}}</ref>
* [[Jim Gallagher, Jr.]], professional golfer<ref>{{cite news|title=A hectic week for golfing Gallaghers|publisher=Greenwood Commonwealth|date=July 19, 2012|author=Bill Burrus}}</ref>
* [[Bobbie Gentry]], singer/songwriter<ref>{{cite book| author=John Howard| title=Men Like That: A Southern Queer History| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q077jM9qDvwC&pg=PA176| date=10 October 2001| publisher=University of Chicago Press| isbn=978-0-226-35470-5| page=176}}</ref>
* [[Sherrod Gideon]], professional football player<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/gide00200.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506014708/http://www.profootballarchives.com/gide00200.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 6, 2016 |title=Sherrod Gideon |work=TheProFootballArchives |access-date=July 19, 2020}}</ref>
* [[Gerald Glass]], professional basketball player
* [[Guitar Slim]], blues musician<ref>{{cite book| author=Scott Stanton| title=The Tombstone Tourist: Musicians| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eEPAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA134| date=1 September 2003| publisher=Gallery Books| isbn=978-0-7434-6330-0| page=134}}</ref>
* [[Lusia Harris]], basketball player<ref>{{cite book| author=David Kenneth Wiggins| title=Sport in America: From Colonial Leisure to Celebrity Figures and Globalization| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwdEP9ISuCEC&pg=PA370| year=2010| publisher=Human Kinetics| isbn=978-1-4504-0912-4| page=370}}</ref>
* [[Endesha Ida Mae Holland]], American scholar, playwright, and civil rights activist
* [[Dave Hoskins]], professional baseball player
* [[Kent Hull]], professional football player<ref>{{cite book|author=Sal Maiorana|title=Memorable Stories of Buffalo Bills Football|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dq5_vwrBUoEC&pg=PA82|date=January 2005|publisher=Sports Publishing LLC|isbn=978-1-58261-963-7|page=82}}</ref>
* [[Cal Alley|Tom Hunley]], ex-slave and the inspiration for the character "Hambone" in [[J. P. Alley]]'s syndicated cartoon feature, ''Hambone's Meditations''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://msgw.org/slaves/hunley-xslave.htm|title=Mississippi Slave Narratives from the WPA Records|publisher=MSGenWeb|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Robert Johnson]], blues musician<ref name=carl/>
* [[Jermaine Jones]], soccer player for the [[New England Revolution]] and [[United States men's national soccer team|United States national team]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Filip Bondy|title=Chasing the Game: America and the Quest for the World Cup|url=https://archive.org/details/chasinggameameri0000bond|url-access=registration|date=27 April 2010|publisher=Da Capo Press, Incorporated|isbn=978-0-306-81905-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/chasinggameameri0000bond/page/253 253]}}</ref>
* [[Cleo Lemon]], Toronto Argonauts quarterback<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nfl.com/player/cleolemon/2504793/profile|title=Cleo Lemon|website=Nfl.com|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Furry Lewis|Walter "Furry" Lewis]], blues musician<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Oliver|title=Songsters and Saints: Vocal Traditions on Race Records|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0bz5xm_m3dMC&pg=PA232|date=27 September 1984|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-26942-1|page=232}}</ref>
* [[Bernie Machen]], president of the [[University of Florida]]<ref>{{cite web|publisher=University of Florida |title=The President |url=http://president.ufl.edu/about/machen/ |access-date=January 26, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140119190944/http://president.ufl.edu/about/machen/ |archive-date=January 19, 2014 }}</ref>
* [[Della Campbell MacLeod]] (ca. 1884 – ?), author and journalist
* [[Paul Maholm]], baseball pitcher<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=430904#gameType=%27R%27|website=Mlb.com|title=Paul Maholm Stats|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Matt Miller (right-handed pitcher)|Matt Miller]], baseball pitcher<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/team/player.jsp?player_id=285080#gameType=%27R%27|website=Mlb.com|title=Matt Miller Stats|access-date=January 26, 2014}}</ref>
* [[Mulgrew Miller]], jazz pianist<ref>{{cite book|author=Bob Doerschuk|title=88: The Giants of Jazz Piano|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=odQy4t6U5wIC&pg=PA287|year=2001|publisher=Backbeat Books|isbn=978-0-87930-656-4|page=287}}</ref>
* [[Juanita Moore]], actress<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-juanita-moore-20140103-story.html |title=Juanita Moore dies at 99; 'Imitation of Life' actress earned Oscar nod |work=Los Angeles Times |date=2014-01-02}}</ref>
* [[Carrie Nye]], actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Max Apple|title=Mom, the Flag, and Apple Pie: Great American Writers on Great American Things|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zGQ0AAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-385-11459-2|page=39}}</ref>
* [[W. Allen Pepper Jr.]], US federal judge<ref>{{cite book|title=The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_AI8AQAAIAAJ|volume=10|year=1996|publisher=LexisNexis.|page=1135| isbn=9781561601783 }}</ref>
* [[Fenton Robinson]], blues singer/guitarist<ref>{{cite book|author1=Nigel Williamson|author2=Robert Plant|title=The rough guide to the blues|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AgE8AQAAIAAJ|date=2 April 2007|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=978-1-84353-519-5|page=308}}</ref>
* [[Laverne Smith]], NFL player
* [[Tonya Stewart]], actress<ref>{{cite book|author=Bob McCann|title=Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&pg=PA314|year=2010|publisher=McFarland|isbn=978-0-7864-5804-2|page=314}}</ref>
* [[Hubert Sumlin]], blues guitarist<ref>{{cite book|author=Jas Obrecht|title=Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBIaN63ZJEMC&pg=PA210|year=2000|publisher=Miller Freeman Books|isbn=978-0-87930-613-7|page=210}}</ref>
* [[Donna Tartt]], novelist<ref>{{cite book|author=Tracy Hargreaves|title=Donna Tartt's The Secret History: A Reader's Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9juSx7s2gIC&pg=PA7|date=1 September 2001|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-5320-4|page=7}}</ref>
* [[James K. Vardaman]], Mississippi governor, senator, and white supremacist 
* [[Charlie Wells (writer)|Charlie Wells]], mystery writer, author of ''Let the Night Fall'' (1953) and ''The Last Kill'' (1955)
* [[Willye B. White]], Olympic athlete<ref>{{cite book|author=Martha Ward Plowden|title=Olympic Black Women|url=https://archive.org/details/olympicblackwome00plow|url-access=registration|date=January 1996|publisher=Pelican Publishing|isbn=978-1-4556-0994-9|page=[https://archive.org/details/olympicblackwome00plow/page/143 143]}}</ref>
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