Civil Rights Trail – Chapter Four: Mound Bayou, Mississippi

Living In Beauty

In honor of the upcoming Juneteenth National Independence Day, we are publishing our latest blog post on our Civil Rights Trail journey in the deep South.

As we drove north toward Mound Bayou, on our way to the King Biscuit Blues Festival, we expected to visit a Museum, but we soon discovered that the entire town is a museum.

If you've ever heard of Mound Bayou, then you are the exception.

Former slaves, left to their own resources, built a city that actually thrived all the way into the Civil Rights era... in Mississippi.

Mound Bayou is a remarkable story of Brothers – the Davis brothers and the Montgomery brothers, who knew each other almost intimately, whose children played together and studied together, yet shared nothing in common as they worked side-by-side to opposite ends.

This is a story for our time.

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