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Clarksdale, Mississippi

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Location

The Resume

    (1848- )
    Founded by and named after John Clark
    Seat of Coahoma County, Mississippi
    Population: 14,903 (2020 Census)
    Located in the Mississippi Delta region
    Approximately 80 miles south-southwest of Memphis

Why Clarksdale, Mississippi might be annoying:

    Its status as the ‘Golden Buckle on the Cotton Belt’ was built first on slave labor, then on sharecropping.
    Black World War I veteran L.B. Reed was lynched in Clarksdale during the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919.
    Local pharmacist Aaron Herny was named head of the state branch of the NAACP and then organized a two-year boycott of local businesses that discriminated against blacks as employees or customers (1961-63).
    In legend, it is the site of the crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil to become a kick-ass guitar player.
    Efforts to start a Delta Blues Museum met with indifference from the local government until ZZ Top adopted it as a pet cause.

Why Clarksdale, Mississippi might not be annoying:

    It was the first school district in Mississippi to desegregate.
    It has been called ‘ground zero’ for the blues.
    The Delta Blues Museum is housed in a former Illinois Central depot that was added to the National Register of Historic Places (1995).
    Musicians born in Clarksdale include John Lee Hooker, Son House, Ike Turner, Sam Cooke, and Nate Dogg.

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying