Editing Shelby, Mississippi (section)

==Notable people==
* [[Fred Barnett]], former wide receiver for the [[Philadelpia Eagles]].
* [[Choker Campbell|Walter Luzar "Choker" Campbell]], musician
* [[Dorsett Davis|Dorsett Terrell Davis]], football player
* [[William S. Fischer]], keyboardist, saxophonist, arranger, and composer<ref>{{cite book|title=Woodwind Music of Black Composers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xub8o3ozLuEC&pg=PA21|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-27265-3|pages=21}}</ref>
* [[Erma Franklin]], gospel and R&B singer, sister of the gospel and R&B singer [[Aretha Franklin]]<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=490}}</ref>
* [[Hattie Littles]], soul singer
* [[Sonny Boy Nelson]], blues musician<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebluestrail.com/artists/mus_epow.htm|title=EUGENE POWELL/Sonny Boy Nelson|website=Thebluestrail.com}}</ref>
* [[Vera B. Rison]], Michigan state legislator
* [[Mississippi Slim (blues musician)|Mississippi Slim]], blues musician
* [[Delbert Tibbs]], writer and [[anti-death penalty]] activist<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=Delbert Tibbs, Who Left Death Row and Fought Against It, Dies at 74 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/08/us/delbert-tibbs-who-left-death-row-and-fought-against-it-dies-at-74.html |access-date=18 May 2020 |agency=The New York Times |date=7 December 2013}}</ref>
* [[Henry Townsend (musician)|Henry Townsend]], blues singer most associated with [[St. Louis, Missouri]], on the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.msbluestrail.org/_webapp_2724828/Henry_Townsend|title=Henry Townsend - Shelby|date=December 4, 2009|website=Msbluestrail.org|access-date=31 January 2010}}</ref>
* [[Gerald Wilson]], jazz trumpeter, composer and arranger