Mildrette Netter

When Mildrette Netter finished high school there were no women's track programs in Mississippi, and a scholarship to Tennessee State was denied her. At the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City she ran the 4x100-meter relay with Barbara Ferrell, Margaret Bailes and Wyomia Tyus; the team set a world record of 42.88 seconds and won gold, and she became the first female Olympic medalist from Mississippi. She competed again in 1972. Alcorn State's track and field facility now carries her name, and she sits in several halls of fame.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Rohwer Relocation Center Memorial Cemetery — 16 mi
  A National Historic Landmark cemetery built by Japanese Americans incarcerated at Rohwer from 1942 to 1945, with monuments they made and audio panels narrated by George Takei.
• Mound Bayou — 17 mi
  The Bolivar County town founded in 1887 by men who had been enslaved at Davis Bend, built to be Black-owned, home of Taborian Hospital and a museum on Roosevelt Street.
• Arkansas Post National Memorial — 22 mi
  The site of Arkansas's first European trading post, opened in 1686 beside the Quapaw town of Osotouy, later a territorial capital and the scene of a January 1863 Union victory.
• Dockery Farms — 25 mi
  The plantation on the Sunflower River where Charley Patton lived and played from about 1900, now a working farm, a National Register district and a Mississippi Blues Trail stop.

More markers nearby

• Hot Tamales and the Blues — 0.4 mi
• Rosedale — 0.5 mi
• Otis Clay — 6.1 mi
• Eddie Shaw — 14 mi