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There is work to do, as in so many other small towns in the nation. Its history has been memorialized in the town’s culture and in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. Of course, I was joking and never applied.”Peterson did not win the first time she ran for mayor of her hometown of Mound Bayou. Kelsey has a dual degree in journalism and Spanish from Auburn University and worked as an editorial intern at Texas Monthly and a courts reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser. “I had just come back home to Mound Bayou after having retired and leaving my job in education just outside of Detroit, Michigan, I simply wanted to just do something to keep busy,” says Dr. Eulah Peterson… We rely on donations from readers like you to allow us to produce in-depth, sustainable journalism that provides accountability to those in power. “After that, I kept myself involved in church and other civic activities,” she said. Here's a look into its historic past and uncertain future. Will she consider to run again when her current term is up? Residents say unique values of empowerment, self-sufficiency and excellence flowed from the nature of the town’s inception in 1887.Mayor Eulah Peterson, born and raised in the Mississippi Delta town, recently spoke with Mississippi Today reporter Kelsey Davis and shared what it’s like leading as a woman and how the historic city of about 1,500 people shaped that experienceKristen Eley, 26-year-old tennis professional and coach at FITT Academy, recently spoke with reporter Aallyah Wright about her passion for playing tennis competitively and how it was the cornerstone for her successful coaching career in a male-dominated industry.Donate to our newsroom to help keep our reporting accessible to all.

You may contact Town & City Halls for questions about: She did that in 2002.Peterson got involved in the Historic Mound Bayou Foundation and in 2005 she was first approached about running for public office as an Alderman. Peterson’s grandfather, a former slave, moved to Mound Bayou in … “Yes,” she answers emphatically.“I am so proud of Mound Bayou,” she sums up. Founded by former slaves in 1887, Mound Bayou, Miss., was one of the country's first all-black towns. She is a Knight Foundation fellow for our newsroom’s collaboration with local TV station WLBT and curates The Inform[H]er, our monthly women and girls’ newsletter. “It’s history and where it is today. “That’s why I believe as that education grows, more people will want to come to Mound Bayou and we will benefit from that economically and our visitors will benefit from the history they’ll learn and hopefully be inspired by discovering.”The Mayor notes that many from all over the world have already done just that. Her first teaching job was in Clarksdale in 1969 at George H. Oliver Elementary where she taught special needs students for two years before leaving for Ole Miss where she received her Masters Degree in Special Education. That was attractive to people, especially to those that had experienced slavery,” said Eulah Peterson, mayor of Mound Bayou. - Town Hall and City United States - Free directory United States town halls and towns. Please consider supporting our small nonprofit newsroom with a tax-deductible gift.Erica Hensley, a native of Atlanta, has been working as an investigative reporter focusing on public health for Mississippi Today since May 2018. 662-843-3432       MAILING: PO Box 117, Cleveland MS 38732       OFFICE: 125 S. Court St., Cleveland MS 38732“I had just come back home to Mound Bayou after having retired and leaving my job in education just outside of Detroit, Michigan, I simply wanted to just do something to keep busy,” says Dr. Eulah Peterson, mayor of Mound Bayou. The Mound Bayou City Mayor, located in Mound Bayou, MS, oversees government services for the municipality. “However, I resigned shortly thereafter for personal reasons. She is also trying to increase the tourism numbers of those who are interested in the history of the town and that history is significant.“There are so many people, even native Mississippians, who don’t know the fascinating and utterly unique history of Mound Bayou,” she says of the first independent African-American town settled in the U.S. and chartered by former slaves.“We must do a better job of educating people about what this town stands for and what it means to the understanding of the history of our state and our nation,” said Mayor Peterson. That decision didn’t sit well with my constituents, though and so I sought reinstatement. And, instead of just having “something to do” during what was to be her retirement,        Dr. Peterson is working hard in her role today to better Mound Bayou and bring more business to the town. She is the 2019 recipient of the Doris O'Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship. She was successful in her attempt and along with her Alderman duties she was also Vice-Mayor during the next four years.Staying active in community involvement, most notably an economic/social justice organization for Black women affiliated with the Children’s Defense Fund.In 2009, Peterson ran for mayor for the first time, unsuccessfully. “I graduated John F. Kennedy High School as a member of the first class of graduates in 1965,” she said. “I remember only too well the tragic day our school’s namesake was assassinated. She is a 2018 Educating Children in Mississippi Fellow at the Hechinger Report and is a co-founder of the Mississippi Delta Public Newsroom.This article first appeared on Mississippi Today and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. But the story at the center of Mound Bayou still exists — one in which freed people established one of the nation’s first settlements exclusively for formally enslaved African Americans.