Place:Money, Leflore, Mississippi, United States

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NameMoney
Alt namesWoodstock Plantationsource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS28010214
TypeCommunity
Coordinates33.65°N 90.2°W
Located inLeflore, Mississippi, United States
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Money is an unincorporated Mississippi Delta community near Greenwood in Leflore County, Mississippi, United States. It has fewer than 100 residents, down from 400 in the early 1950s when a cotton mill operated there. Money is located on a railroad line along the Tallahatchie River, a tributary of the Yazoo River in the eastern part of the Mississippi Delta. The community has ZIP code 38945 in the Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area.

Money is the site of events leading to the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till by white men, an event that gained nationwide attention. The suspects were acquitted by an all-white jury in 1955. They sold their story to Look magazine the next year and admitted their crime in the 1956 interview.

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