Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School

Flagg Grove School was a one-room school for Black children at Nutbush, in Haywood County. Tina Turner's great-uncle, Benjamin Flagg, sold the land to the school's trustees in 1889. Anna Mae Bullock, born in Nutbush in 1939 to sharecropper parents, went to school here in the 1940s and sang in the Spring Hill Baptist Church choir from the age of nine. She left for St. Louis in 1956. The school closed in 1968 and was used as a barn.

It was restored and moved in 2012 to the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center, beside Interstate 40 at Brownsville, and the Tina Turner Museum opened in it in 2014. Inside are photographs, stage costumes, yearbooks and gold and platinum records. Turner, who lived in Switzerland for years and died in 2023, sent a video message to the opening. Beside the school stands the house of the bluesman Sleepy John Estes, moved here as well. He recorded in Memphis in 1929, was found living in a sharecropper's shack in Brownsville in 1962, and died in 1977.

Brownsville has harder history too. A local NAACP chapter formed in 1939 to register Black voters in a county that kept them off the rolls. In June 1940 Elbert Williams, one of its founding members, was taken from his home by law officers, and his body was found three days later in the Hatchie River. No one was charged. A state marker honoring Williams was unveiled in 2015, and the case was reopened in 2018.