Greenwood

By the 1960s Greenwood shipped eight hundred thousand bales of cotton a year and was home to the Citizens' Council's state office, while few Black residents were registered to vote. Bob Moses of SNCC arrived in June 1962; organizers met in a junkyard, a church and a family home. In 1964 the city became the nerve center of SNCC's Delta work. A boycott of merchants beginning in 1967, led by clergy including Catholic priests, ran eighteen months through a firebombing and drive-by shootings, and ended with Black hires and paved, lit streets in Black neighborhoods.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Bryant's Grocery — 9.2 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.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 15 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.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 25 mi
  The small park on Byron Street in Ruleville where Fannie Lou Hamer is buried beside her husband, with a Freedom Trail marker and a 2012 bronze statue.
• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 26 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.

More markers nearby

• Point Leflore — steps away
• Furry Lewis — 0.5 mi
• Elks Lodge — 0.8 mi
• Hubert Sumlin — 1.2 mi