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    Tutwiler is a town in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States. The population at the 2010 census was 3,550. In 1899, Tom Tutwiler, a civil engineer...
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    John Lee Hooker (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    living with William and Minnie Hooker in Tutwiler, Mississippi. It is believed that he was born in Tutwiler, in Tallahatchie County, although some sources...
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  • BigWalkDog (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    signed to Gucci Mane's record label, 1017 Records. Walker grew up in Tutwiler, Mississippi, and played youth football as a linebacker. Walker started his rap...
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  • Tutwiler, prison reformer Margaret D. Tutwiler, politician Tutwiler, Mississippi Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women, a prison located in Wetumpka, Alabama This...
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  • Emmett Till (category African-American history of Mississippi)
    Emmett Till Memorial Highway was dedicated between Greenwood and Tutwiler, Mississippi; this was the route his body was taken to the train station, to...
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    year in Missouri; and W.C. Handy, who first heard the blues in Tutwiler, Mississippi, in 1903. The first extensive research in the field was performed...
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    2010. "Parchman Farm – Mississippi State Penitentiary, south of Tutwiler, Mississippi, July, 1992". Merten, Charles J. "Mississippi, 1966 The struggle for...
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    America on behalf of the Mississippi Department of Corrections, is located in an unincorporated area in the county, near Tutwiler. As of 2010 the prison...
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    Sonny Boy Williamson II (category Blues musicians from Mississippi)
    February 2, 1920, the day of the census. Miller's gravestone at Tutwiler, Mississippi, set up by record company owner Lillian McMurry twelve years after...
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  • Yazoo Delta Railroad (category Defunct Mississippi railroads)
    Moorhead and Ruleville, Mississippi. It was extended to Tutwiler, Mississippi, and Lake Dawson and was acquired by the Yazoo and Mississippi Railroad by 1903...
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  • Vera Pigee (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    Pigee (1924–2007), was an American civil rights worker in Clarksdale, Mississippi. She served as branch secretary to the Coahoma County chapter of the...
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  • Frank Stokes (musician) (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    his stepfather in Tutwiler, Mississippi. He learned to play the guitar as a youth in Tutwiler and, after 1895, in Hernando, Mississippi, which was the home...
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    W. C. Handy (category Musicians from Clarksdale, Mississippi)
    developing musical style. In 1903, while waiting for a train in Tutwiler, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta, Handy overheard a black man playing a steel guitar...
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    included Memphis to New Orleans via Vicksburg and Baton Rouge, Memphis to Tutwiler, Clarksdale, MS to Yazoo City, Clarksdale to Jackson, MS, and Jackson to...
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    Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States. According to the 2020 United States Census, Mississippi is the 32nd-most populous state, with 2...
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  • sleeping on a train traveling through (or stopping at the station of) Tutwiler, Mississippi around 1903, and being awakened by: ... a lean, loose-jointed Negro...
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  • reference to the earliest known blues lyric. At a train station in Tutwiler, Mississippi in 1903, W. C. Handy heard a Black man playing a blues song on a...
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    James E. Sherrard III (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    retired in 2004. Sherrard was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi. He graduated from the University of Mississippi's Reserve Officer Training Corps program...
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  • Willie Kizart (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    ever recorded; played by Kizart. Willie Lee Kizart was born in Tutwiler, Mississippi on January 4, 1932. His father, Lee Kizart, was a local blues and...
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    Brooklyn, Mississippi Hattiesburg, Mississippi 01930-01-011930 01936-01-011936 Replaced by US 49 US 49E 85.862 138.181 Yazoo City, Mississippi Tutwiler, Mississippi...
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    trip split students among two sites to mitigate the virus: one in Tutwiler, Mississippi and the other in Clarksdale. Students also wore masks when indoors...
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  • Aldon Morris (category People from Tutwiler, Mississippi)
    African-American and the grandson of sharecroppers, was born in rural Tutwiler, Mississippi. As a child he experienced Jim Crow racism and segregation; one...
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  • Morse's and Edward Madden's "Two Little Boys". W. C. Handy is in Tutwiler, Mississippi, and hears a blues performance. This inspires his career, and is...
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    Greenwood. Both routes continue north from US 82 and are linked again at Tutwiler. Continuing northwest, the highway passes through an interchange with US 61...
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  • official state song in 1931. "Alabama" was written as a poem by Julia Tutwiler, a distinguished educator and humanitarian. It was first sung to an Austrian...
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  • Hayes McMullan (category Songwriters from Mississippi)
    in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. McMullan was born in either New Hope or Murphreesboro, Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. His musical talents were...
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    Quiver River (category Rivers of Mississippi)
    in Mississippi, United States. The source of Quiver River is the Upper Quiver River and Lower Quiver River, located northwest of Sumner, Mississippi. Quiver...
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    previous day for the murder of a railroad engineer named Fogarty in Tutwiler, Mississippi, and claimed self-defense. With a mob threatening to burn Baldwin...
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  • Lillian McMurry (category Record producers from Mississippi)
    permission. In 1965, she paid for Sonny Boy Williamson's tombstone in Tutwiler, Mississippi. In 1998, she was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, one of the...
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  • State highways in Mississippi are maintained by the Mississippi Department of Transportation. The state numbers its highways in a grid-like pattern, much...
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