Durant

Durant figures in the Colored Farmers' Alliance story through a store. In 1889 organizer Oliver Cromwell, building Alliance branches in Leflore County, urged Black farmers to take their business to a Southern Alliance store in Durant. Planters lost trade and control over laborers, and white men threatened Cromwell. Seventy-five Black men marched to Shell Mound to say three thousand would defend him. National guardsmen arrived. State newspapers reported five killed and forty arrested; out-of-state papers reported at least twenty-five dead. Planters then ordered the Durant store to cut its ties with the Colored Alliance.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• L.V. Hull Legacy Center — 15 mi
  A folk artist's legacy campus on Allen Street in Kosciusko, opened in June 2026 a few doors from the National Register home and studio of L.V. Hull, the Unusual Artist.

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