Sonny Boy Williamson

Nobody is sure what to call him. Sonny Boy Williamson II has been Aleck Miller, Alex Ford and Rice Miller, and he also performed as Little Boy Blue, Harmonica Blowin' Slim and Willie Williamson. He borrowed his stage name from John Lee Williamson of Chicago, and he often took credit for that man's recordings. Birth years in the sources run from 1897 to 1912, somewhere between Glendora and Tutwiler. In 1963 he toured Europe, recorded with the Animals and the Yardbirds, and died in Helena, Arkansas, in 1965.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Emmett Till Interpretive Center and the Tallahatchie County Courthouse — 11 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 — 13 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.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 16 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.
• Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Penitentiary) — 17 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

• Mose Allison — 8.6 mi
• Tallahatchie County — 9.8 mi
• Staple Singers — 14 mi
• McNutt — 14 mi