Delta places · 1885–1927
Places in the Delta records
Explore five Delta towns and the documents connected to them. Subject locations and newspaper publication places are shown separately.
Drawing the map… every place and document is listed below.
- A document places someone here. It names a person, business, family or case in this town.
- A newspaper here printed about them. Where the subject was is stated separately, or is unresolved.
- Both, in the same town.
The business records selected here are laundry advertisements from 1898–1913; later grocery businesses are not represented.
Every place and document
26 source records plus one account overview, in 17 towns. Dates run from 1885 to 1927; the documents that place someone in a Mississippi town run from 1898 to 1927.
Greenwood 1 document
Columbus 1 document
Macon 2 documents
Grenada 1 document
Port Gibson 2 documents
Rosedale 6 documents
- 29 September 1924 – 5 November 1924Bolivar Circuit Court petition, demurrer, and judgmentKept in Case File 31534, with the order that names Rosedale
- 13 October 1924Chinese Barred From Rosedale Schools; Governor Brewer Attacked And Defended For Taking Up CaseThe text reads “white public schools in Rosedale”
- 5 November 1924The circuit court directs Martha Lum’s admissionThe text reads “Rosedale Consolidated High School”
- 11 May 1925The Mississippi Supreme Court reverses the admission orderA decision in the Gong Lum case; the admission order names Rosedale
- 22 March 1927J. K. Young letter on United Chinese Merchants' Association letterheadKept in Case File 31534, with the order that names Rosedale
- 21 November 1927Gong Lum v. RiceA decision in the Gong Lum case; the admission order names Rosedale
Clarksdale 2 documents
- 5 March 1924Committee AppointedThe text reads “in this community”, in a Clarksdale newspaper
- 8 March 1927Supervisors Appropriate To Carry On Chinese School Case LitigationPrinted in a Clarksdale newspaper. Where the school it pays for stood is not resolved: the checked passage says only “this county.”