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Money, Mississippi

Field	Value
official_name	Money, Mississippi
settlement_type	Unincorporated community
image_skyline	LeFloreCountyMoneyVolFire.JPG
image_caption	Leflore County Volunteer Fire Department in Money
pushpin_map	Mississippi#USA
pushpin_label	Money
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Mississippi##Location in the United States
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	United States
subdivision_type1	State
subdivision_name1	Mississippi
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	Leflore
unit_pref	Imperial
population_total	about 100
timezone	Central (CST)
utc_offset	-6
timezone_DST	CDT
utc_offset_DST	-5
elevation_footnotes
elevation_ft	138
coordinates
postal_code	38945
blank1_name	GNIS feature ID
blank1_info	673728

Money is an unincorporated community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta. It has about 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there. Money is located on a railroad line along the Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community has ZIP code 38945 in the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.

Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till.

History

The settlement was named for Hernando Money, a United States Senator from Mississippi. Money was a stop on the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley Railroad. This rural area was developed for cotton cultivation. The population in 1900 was 40. The Money post office was established in 1901.

Money gained international attention in 1955 after Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African-American boy from Chicago visiting his uncle, was accused of flirting, by means of whistling, with a white woman working alone at Bryant's Grocery & Meat Market in Money. Till was subsequently murdered.

A historic marker has been placed in front of Bryant's Grocery, and the site draws "an ever-increasing number of tourists". The crumbling building is privately owned, which has hindered efforts to preserve it.

Transportation

Amtrak’s City of New Orleans, which operates between New Orleans and Chicago, passes through the town on CN tracks, but makes no stop. The nearest station is located in Greenwood, 11 mi to the south.

Education

It is in the Greenwood-Leflore School District. Residents are zoned to Amanda Elzy High School.

The town was formerly served by the Leflore County School District. Effective July 1, 2019 this district consolidated into the Greenwood-Leflore School District.

Notable people

Richard "Hacksaw" Harney – Delta blues guitarist and pianist
James Schaffer – religious leader and centenarian
Willye White – Olympic athlete
Emmett Till - Young Lynching Victim

In popular culture

A wooden bridge across the Tallahatchie River at Money was the focus of Bobbie Gentry's 1967 hit song "Ode to Billie Joe." The November 10, 1967 issue of Life magazine featured a photo of Gentry crossing the bridge. The bridge collapsed in June 1972 after being burned by vandals. It has since been replaced.

The novel The Trees by Percival Everett is set in Money and depicts a mysterious series of murders that seem to follow identical patterns and involve the families of the confessed murderers of Emmett Till.

References

{{GNIS. 673728
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Gallant, Frank K.. (16 February 2012). "A Place Called Peculiar: Stories about Unusual American Place-Names". Courier Corporation.
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"Leflore County". Jim Forte Postal History.
(January 28, 2017). "Woman Linked to 1955 Emmett Till Murder Tells Historian Her Claims Were False". The New York Times.
(February 20, 2019). "Emmett Till's Murder, and How America Remembers Its Darkest Moments". The New York Times.
(April 2019). "Remembering Emmett Till in Money, Mississippi". Places.
"School Profile". [[Greenwood-Leflore Consolidated School District]].
"SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP (2010 CENSUS): Leflore County, MS". [[U.S. Census Bureau]].
"[https://mpe.org/mpe/documents/Consolidation.Final.pdf School District Consolidation in Mississippi] {{Webarchive. link. (2017-07-02 ." Mississippi Professional Educators. December 2016. Retrieved on July 2, 2017. Page 2 (PDF p. 3/6).)
(July 19, 2004). "The Blues Encyclopedia". Routledge.
Wiggins, David K.. (26 March 2015). "African Americans in Sports". Routledge.

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