Editing Philadelphia, Mississippi

{{About|the city in Mississippi|the city in Pennsylvania|Philadelphia|5=Philadelphia (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| official_name      = Philadelphia, Mississippi
| named_for          = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]<ref name="britannica">{{cite encyclopedia|title=Philadelphia|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]|url=https://www.britannica.com/place/Philadelphia-Mississippi|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref>
| settlement_type    = [[City]]
| image_skyline      = Neshoba County Mississippi Courthouse.jpg
| imagesize          = 250px
| image_caption      = Neshoba County courthouse in Philadelphia
| image_map          = Neshoba_County_Mississippi_Incorporated_and_Unincorporated_areas_Philadelphia_Highlighted.svg
| mapsize            = 250px
| map_caption        = Location of Philadelphia, Mississippi
| pushpin_map        = USA
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in the United States
| subdivision_type   = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
| subdivision_name   = United States
| subdivision_type1  = [[U.S. state|State]]
| subdivision_name1  = [[Mississippi]]
| subdivision_type2  = [[List of counties in Mississippi|County]]
| subdivision_name2  = [[Neshoba County, Mississippi|Neshoba]]
| leader_title       = Mayor
| leader_name        = [[James Young (mayor)|James Young]] ([[Democratic Party (United States)|D]])
| unit_pref          = Imperial
| area_total_km2     = 31.66
| area_land_km2      = 31.63
| area_water_km2     = 0.04
| area_total_sq_mi   = 12.22
| area_land_sq_mi    = 12.21
| area_water_sq_mi   = 0.01
| population_as_of   = [[2020 United States census|2020]]
| population_total   = 7118
| population_density_km2 = 225.07
| population_density_sq_mi = 582.92
| timezone           = [[North American Central Time Zone|Central (CST)]]
| utc_offset         = -6
| timezone_DST       = CDT
| utc_offset_DST     = -5
| elevation_m        = 129
| elevation_ft       = 423
| coordinates        = {{coord|32|46|27|N|89|6|46|W|region:US-MS|display=inline,title}}
| postal_code_type   = [[ZIP code]]
| postal_code        = 39350
| area_code          = [[Area code 601|601]]
| blank_name         = [[Federal Information Processing Standard|FIPS code]]
| blank_info         = 28-56960
| blank1_name        = [[Geographic Names Information System|GNIS]] feature ID
| blank1_info        = 0675674
| website            = [http://www.philadelphiathecity.com City of Philadelphia]
| pop_est_as_of      = 
| pop_est_footnotes  = 
| population_est     = 
| area_footnotes     = <ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020">{{cite web|title=2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/docs/maps-data/data/gazetteer/2020_Gazetteer/2020_gaz_place_28.txt|publisher=United States Census Bureau|accessdate=July 24, 2022}}</ref>
| population_footnotes = 
}}
'''Philadelphia''' is a city in and the [[county seat]] of [[Neshoba County, Mississippi|Neshoba County]],<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19971|title= Profile for Philadelphia, Mississippi|publisher= ePodunk|access-date= October 10, 2012|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160821210547/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=19971|archive-date= August 21, 2016|url-status= dead}}</ref><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}}</ref> [[Mississippi]], United States. The population was 7,118 at the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]].

== History ==
[[File:Beacon Street, Courthouse Square, Philadelphia, Mississippi.jpg|thumb|left|Courthouse Square]]
Philadelphia is [[municipal corporation|incorporated as a municipality]]; it was given its current name, after [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]],<ref name="britannica"/> in 1903, two years before the railroad brought new opportunities and prosperity to the town. The history of the town and its influences- social, political and economic- can be seen in the many points of interest within and beyond the city limits.  These range from the large ceremonial [[Indian mound]] and cave at [[Nanih Waiya]], built approximately 1700 years ago and sacred to the [[Choctaw]]; to the still thriving Williams Brothers Store, a true old-fashioned [[general store]] founded in 1907 and featured in ''[[National Geographic (magazine)|National Geographic]]'' in 1937 as a source of anything from "horse collars to straw hats."<ref name=Nat-Geo-Magazine>{{cite magazine
| last        = Hildebrand
| first       = J.R.
| title       = Machines Come to Mississippi
| url         = https://archive.nationalgeographic.com/
| magazine    = The National Geographic Magazine
| edition     = September 1937
| location    = Washington, D.C.
| publisher   = The National Geographic Society
| volume      = LXXII
| number      = Three
| pages       = 288
| access-date = April 8, 2021
}}</ref>

===Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner===
{{Main|Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner}}
[[File:Goodman Cheney and Schwerner Murder Site Marker.jpg|thumb|right|250px|State of Mississippi roadside marker denoting the location where the 1964 murders of American civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner took place]]
In the mid-20th century, [[Mississippi]] was a battleground of the [[civil rights movement]] as, like other states of the South, it had long [[Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era|disfranchised]] blacks and subjected them to [[racial segregation]] and [[Jim Crow laws]]. Philadelphia in June 1964 was the scene of the murders of civil rights workers [[James Chaney]], a 21-year-old [[African American|black]] man from [[Meridian, Mississippi|Meridian]], Mississippi; [[Andrew Goodman (activist)|Andrew Goodman]], a 20-year-old [[Jew]]ish [[anthropology]] student from [[New York City]]; and [[Michael Schwerner]], a 24-year-old Jewish [[Congress of Racial Equality|CORE]] organizer and former [[social worker]], also from New York. Their deaths demonstrated the risks that civil rights workers took to secure the constitutional rights of African Americans.

[[Ku Klux Klan]] members (including [[Cecil Price]], a deputy sheriff of Neshoba County) released the three young men from jail, took them to an isolated spot, and killed them, then buried them in an earthen dam. It was some time after they disappeared before the bodies were discovered, as a result of an [[FBI]] investigation and national media attention.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/tim64b.htm#1964csg Lynching of Chaney, Schwerner & Goodman] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref> The national outrage over their deaths helped procure support for Congressional passage of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] and the [[Voting Rights Act]] of 1965.  The murders and related conspiracy gave rise to the "Mississippi Burning" trial, ''[[United States v. Price]]''.

===Reagan's visit===
{{main|States' rights speech}}
On August 3, 1980, [[Ronald Reagan]] gave his first post-[[political convention|convention]] speech at the [[Neshoba County Fair]] after being officially chosen as the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] nominee for [[President of the United States]]. He said: "I believe in states' rights ... I believe we have distorted the balance of our government today by giving powers that were never intended to be given in the Constitution to that federal establishment." He went on to promise to "restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlinemadison.com/ftp/reagan/reaganneshoba.mp3 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2015-09-27 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304030134/http://www.onlinemadison.com/ftp/reagan/reaganneshoba.mp3 |archive-date=2016-03-04 }}</ref>

===Dupree's record breaker===
[[Marcus Dupree]] played high school football for the Philadelphia High School Tornadoes from 1978 to 1981. He was an outstanding athlete who was widely recognized for his achievements.<ref name="LO">{{cite news|url=http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227283|title=Could Marcus Dupree make another run at pro football?|publisher=[[WLOX]]|date=September 27, 2010|access-date=January 8, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052934/http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=13227283|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://oudaily.com/news/2010/nov/09/story-marcus-dupree/|title=The story of Marcus Dupree|work=[[The Oklahoma Daily]]|date=November 9, 2010|first=R.J.|last=Young|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120418195859/http://oudaily.com/news/2010/nov/09/story-marcus-dupree/|archive-date=April 18, 2012}}</ref> Dupree scored 87 touchdowns total during his playing time in high school, breaking the record set by [[Herschel Walker]] by one.<ref name=deitsch>{{cite news|url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/richard_deitsch/11/07/media.circus.marcus.dupree/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101111031132/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/richard_deitsch/11/07/media.circus.marcus.dupree/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 11, 2010|title=Marcus Dupree's doc; Howard Stern's most wanted sports guests|work=[[Sports Illustrated]]|date=November 9, 2010|first=Richard|last=Deitch}}</ref> In 1981, Marcus's final High School football game was played at Warriors Stadium of the [[Choctaw Tribal School System|tribal high school]] at the Choctaw Indian Reservation.<ref name=W_Morris>
{{Cite book
 | url        = https://books.google.com/books?id=W6nE9QK51vkC&q=marcus+dupree+1981+choctaw&pg=PA291
 | title      = The Courting of Marcus Dupree
 | year       = 1999
 | pages       = 291–302
 | access-date = 2010-11-04
 | last       = Morris
 | first      = Willie | isbn = 9780878055852
 }}
</ref> The author [[Willie Morris]] described the audience at Dupree's final high school game as "the most distinctive crowd I had ever seen ... four thousand or so people seemed almost an equal of mix of whites, blacks, and Indians ... "<ref name=Morris>
{{Cite book | url        = https://books.google.com/books?id=W6nE9QK51vkC&q=marcus+dupree+1981+choctaw&pg=PA291 | title      = The Courting of Marcus Dupree | date       = October 1, 1992 | access-date = 2010-11-04 | author-link     = Willie Morris | last       = Morris | first      = Willie| publisher=[[University Press of Mississippi]]| isbn = 0-87805-585-1 }}</ref>

===First black mayor===
In May 2009, Philadelphia elected its first black mayor, [[James Young (mayor)|James A. Young]], a 53-year-old [[Pentecostal]] preacher and a former county supervisor.<ref name="CNN Young">{{cite news|last=Lavandera|first=Ed|date=May 22, 2009|title=Black mayor of Mississippi town brings 'atomic bomb of change'|publisher=CNN|url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/22/mississippi.black.mayor/}}</ref> He defeated Rayburn Waddell, a white, three-term incumbent, by 46 votes in the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] primary (there was no [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] challenger).<ref name="NYT Young">{{cite news|first=Robbie|last=Brown|date=2009-05-21|title=First Black Mayor in City Known for Klan Killings|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/us/22mayor.html|access-date=2017-05-02}}</ref> Jim Prince, publisher of the local ''[[The Neshoba Democrat]]'' newspaper said, "Philadelphia will always be connected to what happened here in 1964, but the fact that Philadelphia, Mississippi, with its notorious past, could elect a black man as mayor, it might be time to quit picking on Philadelphia, Mississippi."<ref name="CNN Young" />  Young's campaign staff credited [[Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|Barack Obama's presidential campaign]] for increasing registration of black and young voters in Philadelphia, many of whom voted for Young.<ref name="NYT Young" /> His term began July 3, 2009.

===Past Mayors===

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"
|-
!
! Portrait
! Name
! Term in office
! Length of service
|-
! 1
| 
| '''Lee Johnston Catledge'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1909</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1910</span>
| 1 year
|-
! 2
| 
| '''W. H. Jenkins'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1910</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 3
| 
| '''W. H. Jenkins'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1913</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 4
| 
| '''Samuel Hurd Spivey'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1916</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1916</span>
| 1 year
|-
! 5
| 
| '''Joseph Eades Jolly'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1917</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 6
| 
| '''Samuel Hurd Spivey'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1919</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1920</span>
| 1 year
|-
! 7
| 
| '''Ambrose Benjamin McCraw'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1923</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 8
| 
| '''Joseph Eades Jolly'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1929</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 9
| 
| '''John Kindred Gillis'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1932</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 10
| 
| '''Ethelbert Dees Stribling'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1940</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 11
| 
| '''Marshall Prince'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1944</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 12
| 
| '''Ethelbert Dees Stribling'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1950</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">Unknown</span>
| Unknown
|-
! 13
| 
| '''Norman A. Johnson, Jr.'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1953</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1955</span>
| 2 years
|-
! 14
| 
| '''Clayton Lewis'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1956</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1961</span>
| 5 years
|-
! 15
| 
| '''Abner Davis Harbour'''
| <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1961</span><br />–<br /><span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">1968</span>
| 7 years
|-
|}
[[File:Williams Brothers store.JPG|thumb|right|Williams Brothers Store]]
[[File:Philadelphia Mississippi.JPG|thumb|Philadelphia, Mississippi seen from the east end of town.]]
[[File:Philadelphia Neshoba County Library.jpg|thumb|Philadelphia - Neshoba County Library]]

==Geography==
Philadelphia is located at {{coord|32|46|27|N|89|6|46|W|type:city}} (32.774070, -89.112891).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the city has a total area of {{convert|10.6|sqmi|km2}}, of which {{convert|10.6|sqmi|km2}} are land and {{convert|0.04|sqmi|km2|adj=on}} (0.19%) is water.

==Demographics==

{{US Census population
|1880= 101
|1910= 1209
|1920= 1669
|1930= 2560
|1940= 3711
|1950= 4472
|1960= 5017
|1970= 6274
|1980= 6434
|1990= 6758
|2000= 7303
|2010= 7477
|2020= 7118
|footnote=Source: 1910–2010<ref>{{cite web|author=Resident Population Data|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php|title=Resident Population Data - 2010 Census|publisher=2010.census.gov|access-date=2012-02-18}}</ref>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Philadelphia Racial Composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US2856960&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-08|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]]
|2,899
|40.73%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]]
|3,615
|50.79%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|217
|3.05%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|54
|0.76%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|199
|2.8%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|134
|1.88%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 7,118 people, 2,836 households, and 1,804 families residing in the city.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2008-01-31|title=U.S. Census website}}</ref> of 2000, there were 7,303 people, 2,950 households, and 1,899 families residing in the city. The population density was {{convert|688.1|PD/sqmi|PD/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. There were 3,302 housing units at an average density of {{convert|311.1|/sqmi|/km2|sp=us|adj=off}}. The racial makeup of the city was 55.54% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 40.12% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 2.01% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.49% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0.08% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.55% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.20% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] were 1.51% of the population.

There were 2,950 households, out of which 30.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 40.8% were [[Marriage|married couples]] living together, 20.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 35.6% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals, and 15.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 3.00.

In the city, the population was spread out, with 26.1% under the age of 18, 9.1% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 17.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 36 years. For every 100 females, there were 81.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 73.8 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $26,438, and the median income for a family was $30,756. Males had a median income of $30,731 versus $20,735 for females. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $15,787. About 25.1% of families and 28.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 41.1% of those under age 18 and 16.4% of those age 65 or over.

==Arts and culture==
===Museums and other points of interest===
*[[Geyser Falls Water Theme Park]]
*[[Silver Star Casino]]
*[[Neshoba County Fair]]
*Choctaw Indian Fair
*Philadelphia-Neshoba County Museum
*[[Marty Stuart]] Congress of Country Music

==Education==
[[File:PhiladelphiaHSMS.JPG|thumb|Philadelphia High School]]
Most of the City of Philadelphia is served by the [[Philadelphia Public School District]]. A portion is zoned to the [[Neshoba County School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28099_neshoba/DC20SD_C28099.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807013001/https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28099_neshoba/DC20SD_C28099.pdf |archive-date=2022-08-07 |url-status=live|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Neshoba County, MS|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2022-08-06}} - [https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st28_ms/schooldistrict_maps/c28099_neshoba/DC20SD_C28099_SD2MS.txt Text list]</ref>

==Media==
''The Neshoba Democrat'' is published in Philadelphia. It is a weekly newspaper that was established in 1881.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://neshobademocrat.com/|title=  The Neshoba Democrat|publisher=The Neshoba Democrat |access-date= October 10, 2012}}</ref>

==Infrastructure==
===Public utilities===
[[Cable television]] services for the city of Philadelphia are contracted to [[MetroCast Communications]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.metrocast.com |title=High Speed Internet, Cable TV, & Digital Phone |publisher=MetroCast |access-date=2017-05-02}}</ref>  Electrical utilities, as well as water and sewer service, are provided by the City of Philadelphia as [[Philadelphia Utilities]].  The natural gas utility is [[CenterPoint Energy]]. [[AT&T Inc.|AT&T]] is the local telephone service provider.

==Notable people==<!--consensus reached to standardize this heading per WP:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline -->
*[[J. T. "Blondy" Black]], former [[NFL]] player<ref>{{cite web |title='Blondy' was decades ahead of his time |url=https://msfame.com/blondy-was-decades-ahead-of-his-time/ |website=msfame.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Buck Bounds]], member of the [[Mississippi House of Representatives]] from 1988 to 1992<ref>{{cite news |title=Former legislator laid to rest |url=https://www.neshobademocrat.com/stories/former-legislator-laid-to-rest,42182? |access-date=21 November 2023 |work=The Neshoba Democrat |date=February 4, 2020}}</ref>
*[[C. Scott Bounds]], member of the Mississippi House of Representatives<ref>{{cite web |title=C. Scott Bounds' Biography |url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/40166/c-scott-bounds |website=Project Vote Smart |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Josh Boyd]], former NFL [[defensive tackle]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Josh Boyd |url=https://hailstate.com/sports/football/roster/josh-boyd/2117 |website=hailstate.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Jenifer Branning]], member of the [[Mississippi State Senate]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jenifer B. Branning |url=http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/members/senate/branning.xml |website=Mississippi State Senate |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Terry C. Burton]], former member of the Mississippi State Senate<ref>{{cite web |title=Terry Burton's Biography |url=https://justfacts.votesmart.org/candidate/biography/3624/terry-burton |website=Project Vote Smart |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Adam Monroe Byrd]], U.S. Congressman and practicing lawyer in Philadelphia, Mississippi
*[[Billy Cannon]], college and pro football player, 1959 [[Heisman Trophy]] winner
*[[Turner Catledge]], former editor-in-chief for the [[Chicago Sun]]
*[[William Henry Cook]], justice of the [[Supreme Court of Mississippi]] from 1920 to 1937<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Rowland |editor1-first=Dunbar |title=The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi |date=1927 |publisher=State of Mississippi |location=Jackson, Mississippi |page=111 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=evmgAAAAMAAJ}}</ref>
*[[Mike Dennis (running back)|Mike Dennis]], former NFL [[running back]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Mike Dennis |url=https://msfame.com/inductees/mike-dennis/ |website=msfame.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Glen Deweese]], member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1976 to 1992<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mississippi. Legislature|date=1980-01-01|title=Hand book : biographical data of members of Senate and House, personnel of standing committees [1980]|url=https://egrove.olemiss.edu/sta_leghb/15|journal=Mississippi Legislature Hand Books}}</ref>
*[[Marcus Dupree]], football player in NFL and [[USFL]], also known for building the Mount Nebo Baptist Church in Philadelphia; subject of "[[The Best That Never Was]]", an episode in [[ESPN]]'s ''[[30 for 30]]'' series
*[[Mike Eakes]], former member of the Mississippi House of Representatives<ref>{{cite news |title=Grady Michael 'Mike' Eakes |url=https://www.dailyleader.com/2005/08/15/grady-michael-mike-eakes/ |access-date=21 November 2023 |work=The Daily Leader |date=August 15, 2005}}</ref>
*[[Tim Edwards (American football)|Tim Edwards]], former NFL defensive tackle<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/E/EdwaTi20.htm |title=Tim Edwards |work=[[Pro-Football-Reference.com]] |access-date=November 19, 2023}}</ref>
*[[Greg Eiland]], NFL [[offensive guard]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Greg Eiland |url=https://hailstate.com/sports/football/roster/greg-eiland/5978 |website=hailstate.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Bob Ferguson (music)|Bob Ferguson]], [[RCA Victor]]  record producer and songwriter, known for his song "[[Wings of a Dove (Bob Ferguson song)|Wings of a Dove]]" that was recorded first by [[Ferlin Husky]] in the early 1960s
*[[Uncle Elmer|Stanley C. Fraizer]], professional wrestler better known as Uncle Elmer
*[[Derek George]], singer-songwriter and member of [[Pearl River (band)|Pearl River]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Derek George |url=http://fluidrev.com/writers/derek-george/ |website=fluidrev.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[David Goforth]], [[Major League Baseball]] [[pitcher]]
*[[Lideatrick Griffin]], [[wide receiver]] for [[Mississippi State football|Mississippi State]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Lideatick Griffin |url=https://hailstate.com/sports/football/roster/lideatrick-griffin/9977 |website=hailstate.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Hardy (singer)|Michael Wilson Hardy]], country music singer-songwriter who goes by the name HARDY
*[[Jarquez Hunter]], [[running back]] for [[Auburn Tigers football|Auburn University]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Jarquez Hunter |url=https://auburntigers.com/sports/football/roster/jarquez-hunter/18627 |website=auburntigers.com |access-date=19 November 2023}}</ref>
*[[Iris Kelso]], journalist
*[[Edgar Ray Killen]], organized the murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/obituaries/edgar-ray-killen-convicted-in-64-killings-of-rights-worker-dies-at-92.html|title=Edgar Ray Killen, Convicted in '64 Killings of Rights Workers, Dies at 92|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=January 13, 2018|author=Goldstein, Richard}}</ref>
*[[Florence Mars]], civil rights activist<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/29/us/29mars.html|title=Florence L. Mars, 83, Who Was Spurned for Rights Work, Dies|last=Brozan|first=Nadine|date=2006-04-29|work=The New York Times|access-date=November 19, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
*[[Phillip Martin]], Chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians
*[[Fred McAfee]], player for [[New Orleans Saints]] and [[Pittsburgh Steelers]], Director of Player Development for Saints
*[[Shadrick McAfee]], former NFL player and former head coach of the [[Louisiana Swashbucklers]]
*[[Dick Molpus]], [[Secretary of State of Mississippi]] from 1984 to 1996<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ramsey |first1=Marshall |title=Mississippi Stories: Dick Molpus |url=https://mississippitoday.org/2021/04/28/mississippi-stories-dick-molpus/ |access-date=19 November 2023 |work=Mississippi Today |date=April 28, 2021}}</ref>
*[[Joe H. Mulholland]], lawyer and Mississippi state senator
*[[Devone Payne]], head football coach of [[Louisiana–Monroe Warhawks football|Northeast Louisiana State Indians]] from 1954 to 1957<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Northwest La. Football Coach Devone Payne Dies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/34271813/hattiesburg_american/ |newspaper=[[Hattiesburg American]] |location=[[Hattiesburg, Mississippi]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 20, 1958 |page=4 |access-date=November 19, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>
*[[Lallah Miles Perry]], painter and artist
*[[William Redd]], businessman and philanthropist<ref>{{cite news|title=Payback: Gaming pioneer Redd looks back on a lifetime of giving to those in need|url=http://lasvegassun.com/news/2001/jun/25/payback-gaming-pioneer-redd-looks-back-on-a-lifeti/|accessdate=November 19, 2023|work=Las Vegas Sun|date=June 25, 2001}}</ref>
*[[Earl S. Richardson (politician)|Earl S. Richardson]], longtime Mississippi state legislator
*[[Otis Rush]], musician in [[Blues Hall of Fame]]
*[[Marty Stuart]], country music entertainer, [[Grand Ole Opry]] star, and member of the [[Country Music Hall of Fame]].
*[[Georgia Tann]], social worker and [[child trafficking|child trafficker]]<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Miss Georgia Tann Dies In Memphis |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/clarion-ledger-obituary-for-georgia-tann/40769108/ |newspaper=[[The Clarion-Ledger]] |location=[[Jackson, Mississippi]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=September 16, 1950 |page=3 |access-date=November 19, 2023 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] {{Open access}} }}</ref>
*[[Gloria Williamson (politician)|Gloria Williamson]], member of the Mississippi Senate from 2000 to 2008<ref>{{cite news |title=Gloria Williamson |url=https://m.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2014/aug/15/gloria-williamson/ |access-date=20 November 2023 |work=Jackson Free Press |date=August 15, 2014}}</ref>
*[[W. Arthur Winstead]], member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1943 to 1965<ref>{{cite web |title=WINSTEAD, William Arthur |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/W000641 |website=bioguide.congress.gov |access-date=20 November 2023}}</ref>
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==References==
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