Mose Allison

Mose Allison left Tippo for the University of Mississippi as a chemical engineering major, joined the campus dance band, the Mississippians, and later finished a degree in philosophy and literature at Louisiana State University. His father, a stride-style pianist, was an early advocate of land rights for Black farmers in the segregated Delta. Allison moved to New York in 1956 and built a cult following in England, where British artists covered his songs for decades. He died in 2016. The marker stands on Tippo Road, south of Sharkey Road, in the small Tallahatchie County town where he was born.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the Tallahatchie County Courthouse — 12 mi
  The 1955 courthouse in Sumner where Emmett Till's killers were acquitted, restored to that year, and the interpretive center across the street that opened after the county's 2007 apology.
• Bryant's Grocery — 18 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.
• Holly Springs National Forest — 21 mi
  A patchwork national forest of about 155,000 acres in the north Mississippi hills, assembled in the 1930s from worn-out cotton fields and replanted in pine by the Civilian Conservation Corps.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 22 mi
  The state penitentiary on Sunflower County cotton land, built in 1900 as a prison plantation, where Freedom Riders were held in 1961; a working prison with no visits and a Blues Trail marker at its gate.

More markers nearby

• Sonny Boy Williamson — 8.6 mi
• Tallahatchie County — 11 mi
• John Lee Hooker — 15 mi
• W.C. Handy Encounters the Blues — 16 mi