Editing Brookhaven, Mississippi

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| leader_name        = Joe Cox ([[Republican Party (United States)|R]])<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mayor |url=https://brookhaven-ms.gov/city-departments/mayor/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Brookhaven Mississippi |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Campbell |first=Donna |date=2017-06-07 |title=Joe Cox re-elected city of Brookhaven's mayor |url=https://www.dailyleader.com/2017/06/06/joe-cox-reelected-city-of-brookhavens-mayor/ |access-date=2024-11-29 |website=Daily Leader |language=en}}</ref>
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'''Brookhaven''' is a city in [[Lincoln County, Mississippi]], United States, {{convert|55|mi}} south of the state capital of [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]]. The population was 11,674 people at the [[2020 United States census|2020 U.S. Census]].<ref name=":0" /> It is the [[county seat]] of Lincoln County.<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=2011-06-07 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=2011-05-31 }}</ref> It was named after the town of [[Brookhaven, New York]], by founder Samuel Jayne in 1818.

==History==
[[File:Brookhaven, Mississippi (1952).jpg|thumb|left|South Railroad Avenue, 1952]]
Brookhaven is located in what was formerly territory of the [[Choctaw]]. The city was founded in 1818 by Samuel Jayne from New York, who named it after the town of Brookhaven on Long Island.<ref name="citytown">[http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/mississippi/brookhaven Brookhaven, Mississippi.]</ref> Most of the Choctaw were forced out of Mississippi in the 1830s under [[Indian Removal]], and were given lesser land in [[Indian Territory]].

The railroad was constructed through Brookhaven in 1858.<ref name="citytown" /> It connected Brookhaven with [[New Orleans]] to the south and [[Memphis, Tennessee|Memphis]] to the north.

During the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], Brookhaven was briefly occupied at noon on April 29, 1863, by a raiding party of [[Union Army|Union]] cavalry under the command of Colonel [[Benjamin Grierson]]. The Union force burned public buildings and destroyed the railroad.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Grabau|first1=Warren|title=Ninety-Eight Days: A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign|date=2000|publisher=University of Tennessee|location=Knoxville|isbn=1-57233-068-6|page=116}}</ref> This was rebuilt after the war.

In 1908, a mob of 2,000 White people assaulted a military guard and kidnapped a Black man, [[Lynching of Eli Pigot|Eli Pigot]], and murdered him in broad daylight.<ref name="DT19080211p1">{{cite news |title=Two thousand citizens hang woman's assailant |newspaper=Daily Times |location=Chattanooga, Tennessee |page=3}}</ref> 
 
In 1936 Brookhaven was chosen as the site of the Stahl-Urban garment plant.<ref name="Stahl">[http://www.llf.lib.ms.us/LLF/Archival%20Project%202002-2003/Whitworth/m3b.html Stahl-Urban Photograph Collection] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904113801/http://www.llf.lib.ms.us/LLF/Archival%20Project%202002-2003/Whitworth/m3b.html |date=2015-09-04 }}</ref>

In 1955, [[Lamar Smith (activist)|Lamar Smith]], a black farmer and [[World War&nbsp;I]] veteran, was shot to death by whites mid-day on the lawn of the county courthouse in Brookhaven.<ref name=payne>{{cite book|last=Payne|first=Charles M.|authorlink=Charles M. Payne|title=I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle|year=1996|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520207066|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=t0SdXs_dbk8C |page=39}}</ref> He had been working to organize [[Voter registration#United States|voter registration]] among blacks, who had been largely [[Disenfranchisement after the Reconstruction Era|disenfranchised]] in the state since 1890 by barriers created by whites. After World War II, Smith was among the many veterans who became activists for civil rights, determined to regain their constitutional rights. Nobody was prosecuted for his murder.<ref name=payne/>

In 2022, D'Monterrio Gibson, a black [[FedEx]] driver was chased down and [[Shooting of D'Monterrio Gibson|shot at]] by two white men after Gibson had delivered a package to an incorrect address and then retrieved it.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bella|first=Timothy|date=2022-02-11|title=Father and son charged with shooting at Black FedEx driver in case echoing Arbery's killing|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/02/11/mississippi-black-fedex-driver-chased-shot-gibson/|access-date=2022-02-23|issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Zaru|first1=Deena|last2=Ross|first2=Kendall|last3=Ghebremedhin|first3=Sabina|date=2022-02-13|title=2 white men charged after allegedly chasing, shooting at Black FedEx driver|work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-men-charged-allegedly-chasing-shooting-black-fedex/story?id=82802194|access-date=2022-02-22}}</ref>

==Geography==
Brookhaven is in central Lincoln County. [[Interstate 55 in Mississippi|I-55]] passes through the west side of the city, with access from Exits 38, 40, and 42. I-55 leads north {{convert|55|mi}} to [[Jackson, Mississippi|Jackson]], the state capital, and south {{convert|79|mi}} to [[Hammond, Louisiana]]. [[U.S. Route 51#Mississippi|US 51]] runs parallel to I-55, passing through the west side of Brookhaven closer to the city center. US-51 leads north {{convert|20|mi}} to [[Hazlehurst, Mississippi|Hazlehurst]] and south {{convert|25|mi}} to [[McComb, Mississippi|McComb]]. [[U.S. Route 84#Mississippi|US 84]] passes through the south side of Brookhaven, leading east {{convert|36|mi}} to [[Prentiss, Mississippi|Prentiss]] and west {{convert|61|mi}} to [[Natchez, Mississippi|Natchez]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau|U.S. Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|56.3|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|56.1|sqkm|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|0.2|km2|order=flip|1}}, or 0.41%, are water.<ref name="Gazetteer 2019">{{cite web| url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2019_Gazetteer/2019_gaz_place_28.txt| title=U.S. Gazetteer Files: 2019: Places: Mississippi| website=U.S. Census Bureau Geography Division| access-date=April 7, 2020}}</ref> The city expanded in late 2007 to almost triple its previous area, through a vote of annexation, to bring in suburban developments surrounding the older town and equalize taxing and services provided to the new metropolitan area.<ref>[http://www.brookhavenms.org/PolicticalScene.htm BrookhavenMS.org] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091016013757/http://www.brookhavenms.org/PolicticalScene.htm |date=October 16, 2009 }}</ref><ref>[http://www.greatamericanstations.com/Stations/BRH/Station_view Brookhaven, MS (BRH) — Great American Stations]</ref>

===Climate===
{{Weather box
| width       = auto
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| location    = Brookhaven, Mississippi (1991–2020 normals, extremes 1893–present)

| Jan record high F  = 85
| Feb record high F  = 86
| Mar record high F  = 92
| Apr record high F  = 96
| May record high F  = 102
| Jun record high F  = 106
| Jul record high F  = 109
| Aug record high F  = 106
| Sep record high F  = 106
| Oct record high F  = 99
| Nov record high F  = 89
| Dec record high F  = 87
| year record high F = 109

| Jan high F  = 57.2
| Feb high F  = 61.6
| Mar high F  = 68.6
| Apr high F  = 75.0
| May high F  = 82.0
| Jun high F  = 87.6
| Jul high F  = 89.7
| Aug high F  = 90.1
| Sep high F  = 86.0
| Oct high F  = 77.5
| Nov high F  = 66.8
| Dec high F  = 59.4
| year high F = 75.1

| Jan mean F  = 46.7
| Feb mean F  = 50.6
| Mar mean F  = 57.3
| Apr mean F  = 63.7
| May mean F  = 71.7
| Jun mean F  = 78.0
| Jul mean F  = 80.3
| Aug mean F  = 80.2
| Sep mean F  = 75.6
| Oct mean F  = 65.3
| Nov mean F  = 55.0
| Dec mean F  = 48.9
| year mean F = 64.4

| Jan low F  = 36.1
| Feb low F  = 39.6
| Mar low F  = 46.0
| Apr low F  = 52.3
| May low F  = 61.3
| Jun low F  = 68.5
| Jul low F  = 70.8
| Aug low F  = 70.3
| Sep low F  = 65.2
| Oct low F  = 53.2
| Nov low F  = 43.2
| Dec low F  = 38.5
| year low F = 53.8

| Jan record low F  = 2
| Feb record low F  = -10
| Mar record low F  = 14
| Apr record low F  = 26
| May record low F  = 38
| Jun record low F  = 44
| Jul record low F  = 54
| Aug record low F  = 54
| Sep record low F  = 37
| Oct record low F  = 25
| Nov record low F  = 17
| Dec record low F  = 5
| year record low F = -10

| precipitation colour    = green
| Jan precipitation inch  = 6.52
| Feb precipitation inch  = 5.88
| Mar precipitation inch  = 5.71
| Apr precipitation inch  = 5.84
| May precipitation inch  = 4.44
| Jun precipitation inch  = 4.57
| Jul precipitation inch  = 5.71
| Aug precipitation inch  = 5.14
| Sep precipitation inch  = 4.30
| Oct precipitation inch  = 3.64
| Nov precipitation inch  = 4.19
| Dec precipitation inch  = 5.64
| year precipitation inch = 61.58

| unit precipitation days = 0.01 in
| Jan precipitation days  = 9.8
| Feb precipitation days  = 8.5
| Mar precipitation days  = 8.7
| Apr precipitation days  = 6.5
| May precipitation days  = 8.0
| Jun precipitation days  = 10.0
| Jul precipitation days  = 10.3
| Aug precipitation days  = 8.5
| Sep precipitation days  = 6.5
| Oct precipitation days  = 5.7
| Nov precipitation days  = 6.9
| Dec precipitation days  = 9.1
| year precipitation days = 98.5

| source = [[National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration|NOAA]]<ref name="NOWData">{{cite web
|url = https://www.weather.gov/wrh/Climate?wfo=jan
|title = NOWData – NOAA Online Weather Data
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|access-date = October 15, 2023}}</ref><ref name="NCEI">{{cite web
|url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/services/data/v1?dataset=normals-monthly-1991-2020&stations=USC00221094&format=pdf&dataTypes=MLY-TMAX-NORMAL,MLY-TMIN-NORMAL,MLY-TAVG-NORMAL,MLY-PRCP-NORMAL,MLY-SNOW-NORMAL
|title = Summary of Monthly Normals 1991–2020
|publisher = National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
|access-date = October 15, 2023}}</ref>
}}

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1860= 996
|1870= 1614
|1880= 1615
|1890= 2142
|1900= 2678
|1910= 5293
|1920= 4706
|1930= 5288
|1940= 6232
|1950= 7801
|1960= 9885
|1970= 10700
|1980= 10800
|1990= 10243
|2000= 9861
|2010= 12513
|2020= 11674
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Brookhaven racial composition<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2808820&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-17|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|4,439
|38.02%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|6,710
|57.48%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|15
|0.13%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|117
|1.0%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
|2
|0.02%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|266
|2.28%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|125
|1.07%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 11,674 people, 4,346 households, and 2,827 families residing in the city.

===2010 census===
As of the [[2010 United States Census|2010 census]],<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|title=U.S. Census website|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2018-11-24}}</ref> there were 12,513 people, 4,768 households, and 3,146 families residing in the city of Brookhaven. The population density was {{convert|1,714.1|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 5,519 housing units at an average density of {{convert|756.0|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was fairly evenly split with 43.8% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 54.1% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.1% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.7% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.2% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.0% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 0.9% of the population.

There were 4,768 households, out of which 34.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 37.7% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 24.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 34.0% were non-families. 30.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.48 and the average family size was 3.10.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.4% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 20 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 25.3% from 45 to 64, and 16.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37.6 years.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,036, and the median income for a family was $40,018. About 25.2% of families and 31.0% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 46.6% of those under age 18 and 16.0% of those age 65 or over.

==Arts and culture==
Brookhaven's [[Temple B'nai Shalom]] is an example of [[Moorish Revival]] architecture.

==Education==
The city is served by the [[Brookhaven School District]] of [[State school|public schools]]. Up until 1970, separate systems were maintained for black students and white schools. When [[Brown v. Board]] required integration of schools in 1954, white citizens refused. In 1970, when the state finally capitulated and desegregated public schools, a private school, [[Brookhaven Academy]], was created to allow white parents to keep their children from attending schools with black children.

In 1988, Brookhaven High School hired a football coach, Hollis Rutter, from Brookhaven Academy. This so upset the black population, who felt that this was a racially-insensitive move, that a school boycott ensued, ultimately resulting in the rescission of Rutter's hiring. This school again came into the spotlight in 2018 when it became known that Cindy Hyde-Smith, a candidate for U.S. Senate known for making racially-incendiary statements, sent her daughter to this school.<ref name="JFP Attend">{{cite magazine |last1=Pittman |first1=Ashton |title=Hyde-Smith Attended All-White 'Seg Academy' to Avoid Integration |url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2018/nov/23/hyde-smith-attended-all-white-seg-academy-avoid-in/ |access-date=24 November 2018 |magazine=Jackson Free Press |date=23 November 2018 |quote=U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith attended and graduated from a segregation academy that were set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students, a yearbook reveals.}}</ref><ref name="DL graduation">{{cite news |last1=Campbell |first1=Donna |title=Governor to speak at BA graduation |url=https://www.dailyleader.com/2017/05/09/governor-to-speak-at-ba-graduation/ |access-date=24 November 2018 |publisher=The Daily Leader |date=9 May 2017 |quote=Anna-Michael Smith is one of 34 graduates who will be receiving diplomas in John R. Gray Gymnasium at BA Friday. The ceremony begins at 7 p.m. and it is open to the public. mith is the daughter of Mike Smith and Cindy Hyde-Smith, of Brookhaven. Her mom is the commissioner of agriculture and commerce for the state. The Smiths also raise cattle, which makes Anna-Michael a fifth generation farmer.}}</ref>

The statewide magnet high school, the [[Mississippi School of the Arts]] is also located in the city. Four [[Lincoln County, Mississippi|Lincoln County]] public schools are also located in Brookhaven's rural areas: Bogue Chitto Attendance Center, Enterprise Attendance Center, Loyd Star Attendance Center and West Lincoln Attendance Center.  The former institution of higher learning [[Whitworth Female College]], founded in 1858, was located in Brookhaven. The all-women's college closed its doors in 1984.<ref name="BlackBarnwell2002">{{cite book|author1=Patti Carr Black|author2=Marion Barnwell|title=Touring Literary Mississippi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVLjDK5othUC&pg=PA110|year=2002|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-367-3|page=110}}</ref>

In 2019, it was reported that the school district still "has largely segregated classrooms – some all-black, some majority white."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Northam |first=Adam |title=63 years after landmark Brown v. Board case, segregated classrooms persist |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/05/segregated-classrooms-mississippi/3347927002/ |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=USA TODAY |language=en-US}}</ref>

== Media ==

Brookhaven is a part of the [[Jackson, Mississippi]] television market, including news stations [[WLBT]], [[WJTV]], [[WAPT (TV)|WAPT]], and [[WDBD]].  The city is served by a daily newspaper called ''The Daily Leader''.

=== Radio ===

Brookhaven is the secondary principal city of the McComb media market for radio.

{{McComb-Brookhaven Radio}}

==Infrastructure==

===Roads===

Brookhaven contains [[Interstate 55 in Mississippi|Interstate 55]] and [[U.S. Route 51 in Mississippi|U.S. Route 51]], which run parallel to each other going north-south, and [[U.S. Route 84 in Mississippi|U.S. Route 84]], which runs east-west.

===Rail transportation===
{{See also|Brookhaven (Amtrak station)}}
[[Amtrak]]'s famous [[City of New Orleans (train)|''City of New Orleans'']] (subject of the song ballad written by [[Steve Goodman]] and recorded by folk singer [[Arlo Guthrie]] in 1972) serves Brookhaven, going north and south on the old [[Illinois Central]] and [[Gulf, Mobile and Ohio]] railroad lines.

==Notable people==
*[[Lance Dwight Alworth]], American football player
*[[Elsie Barge]], pianist, music educator, and clubwoman
*[[Jim Barnett (Mississippi politician)|Jim C. Barnett]], physician and surgeon; member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] from 1992 to 2008.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2013/jul/29/longtime-legislator-barnett-dies-86/|title=Longtime Legislator Barnett Dies at 86, July 29, 2013|magazine=Jackson Free Press|access-date=August 3, 2013}}</ref>
*[[Jim Brewer (blues musician)|Jim Brewer]], [[Maxwell Street]] blues musician
*[[Corey Dickerson]], baseball player
*[[Bernard Ebbers]], former CEO of [[WorldCom]]
*[[Charles Henri Ford]], poet, novelist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist<ref>'Charles Henri Ford 94, Prolific Poet, Artist and Editor,' ''[[The New York Times]]'', Roberta Smith, September 30, 2002</ref>
*[[Ruth Ford (actress)|Ruth Ford]], actress
*[[Cindy Hyde-Smith]], U.S. Senator from Mississippi
*[[Earsell Mackbee]], football player
*[[Garry Owen (actor)|Garry Owen]], film actor
*[[Robert W. Pittman]], founder [[MTV]] and former CEO and COO of [[AOL]]<ref>{{cite book |title=Fools Rush In: Steve Case, Jerry Levin, and the Unmaking of AOL Time Warner |last=Munk |first=Nina |year=2004 |publisher=Harper Collins |location=New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/foolsrushin00munk/page/89 89–92] |isbn=0-06-054035-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/foolsrushin00munk/page/89 }}</ref>
*[[Lulah Ragsdale]], poet, novelist, actor 
*[[David Banner]], rapper
*[[Richard Scruggs]], lawyer
*[[J. Kim Sessums]], artist<ref>
{{cite web
| url = http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/20041E/pdf/SR/SR0015PS.pdf
|title = State Resolution #15 of 2004 Session
| access-date = 2009-01-26}}</ref>
*[[Lamar Smith (activist)|Lamar Smith]], Civil rights activist.<ref name="Lamar Smith PC">{{cite news |title=Three Recent Murders |publisher=Pittsburgh Courier |date=December 10, 1955}}</ref>
*[[Guy Turnbow]], football player<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.profootballarchives.com/turn00200.html | title=GUY TURNBOW | publisher=profootballarchives.com | access-date=October 9, 2015 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016180053/http://www.profootballarchives.com/turn00200.html | archive-date=October 16, 2015 }}</ref>
*[[Addie L. Wyatt]], leader in the United States Labor movement, civil rights activist, and [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] as [[Time Person of the Year|Person of the Year]] in 1975.<ref name="A Dozen Who Made a Difference">{{cite magazine | title=A Dozen Who Made a Difference – Alison Cheek: Bold Unionist | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947599-5,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205190611/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,947599-5,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=December 5, 2008 | magazine=Time  | date=1976-01-05 | access-date=2008-02-14}}</ref>

==References==

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==External links==
{{Commons category|Brookhaven, Mississippi}}
* [https://brookhaven-ms.gov/ City of Brookhaven official site]

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