Wayne and Minnie Cox Park

In 1902 white supremacists demanded that Minnie Cox resign as Indianola's postmaster, and James K. Vardaman denounced Indianola for tolerating her. President Theodore Roosevelt refused her resignation on the principle that Washington chose its own employees, closed the post office, and kept her on the federal payroll until her term ended in 1904. That October Wayne Cox chartered the Delta Penny Savings Bank, the state's second Black-owned bank, which opened in 1905. After his death in 1916 she ran the Mississippi Life insurance company and by 1923 was one of the richest Black women in the country.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 0.6 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Dockery Farms — 19 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.
• Fannie Lou Hamer Memorial Garden — 20 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.
• Winterville Mounds — 24 mi
  A Mississippian ceremonial center north of Greenville, built by hand from about AD 1000, with a 55-foot Temple Mound and twelve of its original twenty-three mounds still standing.

More markers nearby

• Craig Claiborne — 0.2 mi
• Albert King — 0.4 mi
• Club Ebony — 0.7 mi
• Irene Magruder — 0.7 mi