Carrollton

Two United States senators made their homes in this small town, and both helped build the order that followed Reconstruction. James Z. George held twelve people in slavery in 1850 and thirty a decade later, signed the secession ordinance, then devised the voting provisions of the 1890 constitution, including an understanding clause that let illiterate whites vote while Black citizens were shut out. Hernando de Soto Money, an editor and congressman, chaired the House Post Office committee and opposed Black employment in the postal service. In 1897 Money took George's Senate seat.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Carroll County Courthouse — 0.8 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 11 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.
• Bryant's Grocery — 19 mi
  The ruin of the Money store where Emmett Till was accused in August 1955, on private land beside the railroad, with a Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at the corner.
• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 21 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.

More markers nearby

• Malmaison — steps away
• Narmour and Smith — 0.7 mi
• Ensign William Devotie Billingsley — 10 mi
• Pops Staples — 11 mi