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For many decades this block of Front Street,
known locally as “Greasy Street," was the
center of commercial activity for African
Americans in the Ruleville area. On Saturday
nights Greasy Street was packed with . . . — — Map (db m160403) HM
1962 Joined the Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC). And became a field secretary.
1963 Severely beaten while in Winona, Mississippi
when she and other civil rights workers were
returning from a SCLC citizenship . . . — — Map (db m174449) HM
In 1962 at age 44, Hamer tried to register to
vote; the next day she was fired from her job on
the plantation east of here. She became a civil
rights activist, opening her Ruleville home to
Freedom Summer workers and other activists.
She earned . . . — — Map (db m174198) HM
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Born James A. Lane at Dougherty Bayou just
west of Ruleville, guitarist and vocalist Jimmy
Rogers (1924-1997) played a pioneering role in
the post-World War II Chicago blues scene. A
member of Muddy Waters first band in . . . — — Map (db m160405) HM
Built ca. 1930, the Ruleville
Depot served as an Illinois Central
Gulf RR depot until 1978. The
railroad, built in 1897 by Major
C. H. Pond and originally called
the Yazoo Delta RR, first ran from
Moorhead to Ruleville. With both
passenger . . . — — Map (db m173995) HM
The historic William Chapel Missionary Baptist
Church, established in 1922, was a longtime
meeting place for civil rights activists before
the organization of the modern civil rights
movement. In 1962 the Reverend J. D. Story was
the pastor . . . — — Map (db m174174) HM
