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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P8E_bolivar-county-veterans-memorial_Cleveland-MS.html
Dedicated to the memory of
those veterans who made
the supreme sacrifice
in the World Wars.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1P3B_bolivar-county-confederate-monument_Cleveland-MS.html
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To the memory
of our
Confederate Dead.
1861-65.
Dead upon the field of glory
Hero fit for song and story.
Rear (West)
Bolivar County's
tribute to
southern heroism.
No nation ever rose so free from crime,
nor f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OZH_margaret-wade_Cleveland-MS.html
Lily Margaret Wade (1912-1995) was a standout on Cleveland High
School's girls basketball team and Delta State's women's basketball
team. Compiling a CHS coaching record of 453-89-6, she began
coaching the Lady Statesmen in 1973, winning the AI…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OZF_hill-demonstration-school_Cleveland-MS.html
In 1926 the Hill Demonstration School opened for grades one through six, with kindergarten classes added in 1929. This laboratory-style school for Delta State student teachers had an initial enrollment of twenty-five and was housed in the basement…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OZE_amzie-moore_Cleveland-MS.html
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Returning home from WWII, Cleveland businessman Amzie Moore (1911-1982) became a principal architect of early civii rights activism as a founding member of the Mississippi NAACP and the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Convinced that…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OY2_the-enlightenment-of-w-c-handy_Cleveland-MS.html
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In W.C. Handy's famous account of his "enlightenment" in Cleveland, a ragged local trio was showered with coins after Handy's orchestra of trained musicians had been unable to similarly excite the crowd. In early manuscripts of his book F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OY0_amzie-moore-home_Cleveland-MS.html
Amzie Moore (1911-1982), a local Civil Rights leader, built this house
in 1941. An army veteran, Moore also worked for the U.S. Postal
Service. After returning from WWII, Moore dedicated himself to the
civil rights movement, co-founding the Reg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXV_the-cleveland-chinese-mission-school_Cleveland-MS.html
Founded in 1937 by parents, Cleveland First Baptist Church, and community leaders to provide an education for children of Chinese descent who were excluded from area schools by the 1927 US Supreme Court decision, Gong Lum v. Rice. Students in gra…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OXS_cleveland_Cleveland-MS.html
Named for President Grover Cleveland. Founded along Jones Bayou and Yazoo and Mississippi Valley R.R. in 1886. Downtown historic area listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1999.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OTN_delta-blues-inspires-w-c-handy_Cleveland-MS.html
While leading his orchestra at a dance on this site c. 1905, Handy was
unable to perform requested blues numbers. A local band stepped in
and stole the show. "My enlightenment came in Cleveland. That night
an American composer was born," he wro…