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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_K%C5%ABn_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes Kūn (Mississippi) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Holmes Kūn (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%8A%D0%B3,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Холмс (окръг, Мисисипи) – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Холмс (окръг, Мисисипи)" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Holmes County, Mississippi – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Holmes County, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(kondado_sa_Tinipong_Bansa,_Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Mississippi) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Holmes County (kondado sa Tinipong Bansa, Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Holmes County, Mississippi – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Holmes County, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (Mississippi) – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Holmes County (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (Mississippi) – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Holmes County (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmesi_maakond_(Mississippi)" title="Holmesi maakond (Mississippi) – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Holmesi maakond (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9A%CE%BF%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A7%CE%BF%CE%BB%CE%BC%CF%82_(%CE%9C%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%AF%CF%80%CE%B9)" title="Κομητεία Χολμς (Μισισίπι) – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Κομητεία Χολμς (Μισισίπι)" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Holmes_(Misisipi)" title="Condado de Holmes (Misisipi) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Condado de Holmes (Misisipi)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kantono_Holmes_(Misisipio)" title="Kantono Holmes (Misisipio) – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Kantono Holmes (Misisipio)" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_konderria_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes konderria (Mississippi) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Holmes konderria (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B2%D8%8C_%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="شهرستان هولمز، میسیسیپی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="شهرستان هولمز، میسیسیپی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comt%C3%A9_de_Holmes_(Mississippi)" title="Comté de Holmes (Mississippi) – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Comté de Holmes (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-glk mw-list-item"><a href="https://glk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B2_%D9%9A_%D8%B4%D8%A3%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%BE%D9%8A)" title="هولمز ٚ شأرستان (ميسيسيپي) – Gilaki" lang="glk" hreflang="glk" data-title="هولمز ٚ شأرستان (ميسيسيپي)" data-language-autonym="گیلکی" data-language-local-name="Gilaki" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>گیلکی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%99%88%EC%8A%A4%EA%B5%B0_(%EB%AF%B8%EC%8B%9C%EC%8B%9C%ED%94%BC%EC%A3%BC)" title="홈스군 (미시시피주) – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="홈스군 (미시시피주)" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%80%D5%B8%D5%AC%D5%B4%D5%BD_%D5%B7%D6%80%D5%BB%D5%A1%D5%B6_(%D5%84%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%BA%D5%AB)" title="Հոլմս շրջան (Միսսիսիպի) – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Հոլմս շրջան (Միսսիսիպի)" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bpy mw-list-item"><a href="https://bpy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A7%8B%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B8_%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%89%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%9F%E0%A6%BF,_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BF" title="হোলমস কাউন্টি, মিসিসিপি – Bishnupriya" lang="bpy" hreflang="bpy" data-title="হোলমস কাউন্টি, মিসিসিপি" data-language-autonym="বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী" data-language-local-name="Bishnupriya" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বিষ্ণুপ্রিয়া মণিপুরী</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contea_di_Holmes_(Mississippi)" title="Contea di Holmes (Mississippi) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Contea di Holmes (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_Comitatus_(Mississippia)" title="Holmes Comitatus (Mississippia) – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Holmes Comitatus (Mississippia)" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_megye_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes megye (Mississippi) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Holmes megye (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mzn mw-list-item"><a href="https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%87%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B2_%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86_(%D9%85%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%E2%80%8C%D9%BE%DB%8C)" title="هولمز شهرستان (می‌سی‌سی‌پی) – Mazanderani" lang="mzn" hreflang="mzn" data-title="هولمز شهرستان (می‌سی‌سی‌پی)" data-language-autonym="مازِرونی" data-language-local-name="Mazanderani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مازِرونی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_G%C3%B4ng_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes Gông (Mississippi) – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Holmes Gông (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (Mississippi) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Holmes County (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E3%82%BA%E9%83%A1_(%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B7%E3%83%83%E3%83%94%E5%B7%9E)" title="ホームズ郡 (ミシシッピ州) – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="ホームズ郡 (ミシシッピ州)" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ce mw-list-item"><a href="https://ce.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%B3%D1%83%D0%BE,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Холмс (гуо, Миссисипи) – Chechen" lang="ce" hreflang="ce" data-title="Холмс (гуо, Миссисипи)" data-language-autonym="Нохчийн" data-language-local-name="Chechen" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Нохчийн</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (Mississippi) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Holmes County (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pnb mw-list-item"><a href="https://pnb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DB%81%D9%88%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B2_%DA%A9%D8%A7%D8%A4%D9%86%D9%B9%DB%8C%D8%8C%D9%85%D8%B3%D8%B3%D8%B3%D9%BE%DB%8C" title="ہولمز کاؤنٹی،مسسسپی – Western Punjabi" lang="pnb" hreflang="pnb" data-title="ہولمز کاؤنٹی،مسسسپی" data-language-autonym="پنجابی" data-language-local-name="Western Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پنجابی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nds mw-list-item"><a href="https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County_(Mississippi)" title="Holmes County (Mississippi) – Low German" lang="nds" hreflang="nds" data-title="Holmes County (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Plattdüütsch" data-language-local-name="Low German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Plattdüütsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hrabstwo_Holmes_(Missisipi)" title="Hrabstwo Holmes (Missisipi) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Hrabstwo Holmes (Missisipi)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condado_de_Holmes_(Mississippi)" title="Condado de Holmes (Mississippi) – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Condado de Holmes (Mississippi)" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comitatul_Holmes,_Mississippi" title="Comitatul Holmes, Mississippi – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Comitatul Holmes, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A5%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BC%D1%81_(%D0%BE%D0%BA%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3,_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BF%D0%B8)" title="Холмс (округ, Миссисипи) – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Холмс (округ, Миссисипи)" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a 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data-title="Округ Холмс (Мисисипи)" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Holmes County, Mississippi – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Holmes County, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Holmes County, Mississippi – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Holmes County, Mississippi" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link 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//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/HolmesCountyMSWelcomeSign.jpg/600px-HolmesCountyMSWelcomeSign.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3440" /></a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Location within the U.S. state of Mississippi"><img alt="Map of Mississippi highlighting Holmes County" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg/150px-Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="150" height="242" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg/225px-Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg.png 1.5x, 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class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">33°07′N</span> <span class="longitude">90°05′W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">33.12°N 90.09°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">33.12; -90.09</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="nowrap"><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a4/Flag_of_the_United_States.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States.svg.png 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scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1833</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Namesake" title="Namesake">Named for</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/David_Holmes_(politician)" title="David Holmes (politician)">David Holmes</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">Seat</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Largest city</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Durant,_Mississippi" title="Durant, Mississippi">Durant</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Area<div class="ib-settlement-fn"></div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">765 sq mi (1,980 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Land</th><td class="infobox-data">757 sq mi (1,960 km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Water</th><td class="infobox-data">7.9 sq mi (20 km<sup>2</sup>)  1.0%</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Population<div class="ib-settlement-fn"><span class="nowrap"> </span>(<a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a>)</div></th></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="white-space:nowrap;"> • Total</div></th><td class="infobox-data">17,000</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"> • Density</th><td class="infobox-data">22/sq mi (8.6/km<sup>2</sup>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Time_zone" title="Time zone">Time zone</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%926" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−6">UTC−6</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">Central</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"> • Summer (<a href="/wiki/Daylight_saving_time" title="Daylight saving time">DST</a>)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/UTC%E2%88%925" class="mw-redirect" title="UTC−5">UTC−5</a> (<a href="/wiki/Central_Time_Zone" title="Central Time Zone">CDT</a>)</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Congressional district</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mississippi%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Mississippi's 2nd congressional district">2nd</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://holmescountyms.org/">holmescountyms<wbr />.org</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Holmes County</b> is a <a href="/wiki/County_(United_States)" title="County (United States)">county</a> in the <a href="/wiki/U.S._state" title="U.S. state">U.S. state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a>; its western border is formed by the <a href="/wiki/Yazoo_River" title="Yazoo River">Yazoo River</a> and the eastern border by the <a href="/wiki/Big_Black_River_(Mississippi)" title="Big Black River (Mississippi)">Big Black River</a>. The western part of the county is within the Yazoo-<a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta" title="Mississippi Delta">Mississippi Delta</a>. As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 census</a>, the population was 17,000.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/County_seat" title="County seat">county seat</a> is <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GR6_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR6-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The county is named in honor of <a href="/wiki/David_Holmes_(politician)" title="David Holmes (politician)">David Holmes</a>, territorial governor and the first governor of the state of Mississippi and later United States Senator for Mississippi.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holmes County native, <a href="/wiki/Edmond_Favor_Noel" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmond Favor Noel">Edmond Favor Noel</a>, was an attorney and state politician, elected as governor of Mississippi, serving from 1908 to 1912. </p><p>Cotton was long the <a href="/wiki/Commodity_crop" class="mw-redirect" title="Commodity crop">commodity crop</a>; before the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>, its cultivation was based on slave labor and the majority of the population consisted of enslaved African Americans.<sup id="cite_ref-MSEnc_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSEnc-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Planters generally developed their properties along the riverfronts. After the war, many <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> acquired land in the bottomlands of the Delta by clearing and selling timber to raise the purchase price, but most lost their land during difficult financial times at the end of the century, becoming tenant farmers or sharecroppers.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> With an economy based on agriculture, the county had steep population declines from 1940 to 1970, due to mechanization of farm labor, and the second wave of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>. African Americans migrated from the Deep South especially to West Coast cities, where jobs were plentiful in the buildup of the defense industry. </p><p>Some African Americans had reacquired land in Holmes County in the 1940s under <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a> programs. By 1960, Holmes County's 800 independent black farmers owned 50% of the land, a higher number of such farmers than elsewhere in the state.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were integral members of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a> during the 1960s. In 1967, eight of ten black candidates to run for local county office were landowning farmers; they were the first African Americans to run for office in the county since <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_Era" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction Era">Reconstruction</a>. Holmes had more candidates running for offices for the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party" title="Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party">Freedom Democratic Party</a> than did any other county.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Clark,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Robert G. Clark, Jr.">Robert G. Clark, Jr.</a>, a teacher in Holmes County, was elected as state representative in 1967, the first black person to be elected to state government in the 20th century. He served as the only African American in the state house until 1976. He continued to be re-elected to the state legislature from Holmes County until 2003. In the late 20th century, he was elected to the first of three terms as Speaker of the state House. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The western border of the county is formed by the <a href="/wiki/Yazoo_River" title="Yazoo River">Yazoo River</a>; it is next to the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Delta" title="Mississippi Delta">Mississippi Delta</a>, and shares its characteristics. The eastern border is formed by the <a href="/wiki/Big_Black_River_(Mississippi)" title="Big Black River (Mississippi)">Big Black River</a> and the eastern part has hills. The county was developed for cotton plantations in the antebellum era before the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>, with most properties of the period located along the riverfronts for transportation access. Due to the plantation economy and reliance on slave labor, the county was majority black before the Civil War. It has continued to be majority black (see Demographics). Because of these characteristics, it is included among the 200 counties defined as part of the Black Belt region that curves across the South, into Texas.<sup id="cite_ref-MSEnc_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSEnc-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>"According to U.S. Census data, the 1860 Holmes County population included 5,806 whites, 10 "free colored" and 11,975 slaves. By the 1870 census, the white population had increased about 6% to 6,145, and the "colored" population had increased about 10% to 13,225."<sup id="cite_ref-blake_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-blake-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the war, many <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> and white migrants went to Holmes County and other parts of the Mississippi Delta, where they developed the bottomlands behind the riverfront properties, clearing and selling timber in order to buy their own lands.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-willis_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-willis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Workers were also attracted to the Delta area by higher than usual wages on the plantations, which had a labor shortage in the transition to a free labor economy. </p><p>By the turn of the 20th century, a majority of the landowners in the Delta counties were black. Effectively African-Americans were <a href="/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_Reconstruction_era" class="mw-redirect" title="Disfranchisement after Reconstruction era">disenfranchised</a> by the new constitution of 1890; the loss of political power added to their economic problems associated with the financial <a href="/wiki/Panic_of_1893" title="Panic of 1893">Panic of 1893</a>. Unable to gain credit, many of the first generations of African-American landowners lost their properties by 1920. In this period, they were also competing for land with the better-funded timber and railroad companies. Afterward, African-Americans were forced to become <a href="/wiki/Sharecroppers" class="mw-redirect" title="Sharecroppers">sharecroppers</a> or tenant farmers to make a living.<sup id="cite_ref-solomon_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-solomon-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-willis_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-willis-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The period after Reconstruction and through the early 20th century had the highest incidence of white people lynching black people. Holmes County had 10 documented lynchings in the period from 1877 to 1950, most around the turn of the 20th century.<sup id="cite_ref-eji_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-eji-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Two lynchings took place in the county seat of <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington, Mississippi</a> in the 1940s. </p><p>White planters continued to recruit labor in the area, as freedmen wanted to work on their own account. The first Chinese immigrant laborers entered the Delta in the late 1870s. From 1900-1930, additional Chinese immigrants arrived in Mississippi, including some to Holmes County. They worked hard to leave field labor and often became merchants, especially becoming grocers of small stores in the rural Delta towns. As their socioeconomic status changed, the Chinese Americans carved out a niche "between black and white", gaining admission to white schools for their children through court challenges. With the decline of small towns, most Chinese Americans moved to larger cities through the 20th century. In Mississippi, the number of ethnic Chinese has increased overall in the state through 2010, although it is still small in total - fewer than 5,000.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>, the Roosevelt administration worked through the <a href="/wiki/Farmers_Home_Administration" title="Farmers Home Administration">Farmers Home Administration</a> to provide low-interest loans in order to increase black land ownership. They also established a co-op <a href="/wiki/Cotton_gin" title="Cotton gin">cotton gin</a> to be used by farmers in the project. In Holmes County, numerous African-Americans became landowners in the 1930s and 1940s through this program. They were fiercely independent and later were among strong supporters of the <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil Rights Movement">Civil Rights Movement</a> in the 1960s, even as white people kept a grip on economic and political power through banks, police and the county courthouse.<sup id="cite_ref-land_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-land-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although there had been outmigration, the population of the county in 1960 was still 42% black.<sup id="cite_ref-hazel_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hazel-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The USDA <a href="/wiki/Agricultural_Stabilization_and_Conservation_Service" title="Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service">Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service</a> (ASCS) (established under another name in the 1930s) carried out its programs on a county-wide level. County boards were elected annually by farmers to work on local programs, and to make approval of loans to farmers and similar issues. Although African-Americans made up a large portion of landowners in Holmes County, they were disenfranchised from voting and excluded from participating on the board. They were generally deprived of potential benefits through this program, as part of the pattern of racial discrimination against them across the South. </p><p>Beginning in the World War II period, the population of Holmes County declined markedly from its peak of 1940; through 1970 thousands left, with most African-Americans going to the West Coast, Midwestern and Northeastern cities in the second wave of the <a href="/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>, taking jobs in the booming defense industry. From 1950 to 1960, for instance, some 6,000 black people left the county,<sup id="cite_ref-hdbk_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdbk-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a decline of nearly 19%. But in 1960 the county was still 72% black, with a total population of 27,100.<sup id="cite_ref-hdbk_17-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdbk-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Even with these problems, in 1960 Holmes County had more independent black farmers than did any other county in the state: 800 black farmers owned 50% of the land in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were among those who initiated the civil rights movement, particularly farmers of <a href="/wiki/Mileston,_Mississippi" title="Mileston, Mississippi">Mileston</a>, where the soil was rich. They invited organizers of the <a href="/wiki/Student_Non-Violent_Coordinating_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee">Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee</a> (SNCC) to come to Mileston to help them take action. The majority of the first fourteen black people who attempted to register to vote on April 9, 1963, were landowners.<sup id="cite_ref-land_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-land-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Holmes County became the site of renewed organizing of grassroots efforts for African-American civil rights, with people designated as responsible for its Beats and precincts.<sup id="cite_ref-hdbk_17-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdbk-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1954, the <a href="/wiki/White_Citizens_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="White Citizens Council">White Citizens Council</a> was established to expressly to oppose desegregation of public schools after the United States Supreme Court ruling that year in <i><a href="/wiki/Brown_v._Board_of_Education" title="Brown v. Board of Education">Brown v. Board of Education</a></i>, finding segregation to be unconstitutional. They raised funds to support whites-only schools, and conducted economic boycotts of blacks suspected of civil rights activism, as well as social and political pressure against whites who crossed them. Among their targets in the latter category was <a href="/wiki/Hazel_Brannon_Smith" title="Hazel Brannon Smith">Hazel Brannon Smith</a>, publisher and editor of two local papers in Lexington. For three years, her customers resisted the council's effort to boycott her and cut out her advertising; the Council started a rival newspaper to try to take away her business. Opponents arranged for her husband to be fired from his job as county hospital administrator, and a group firebombed two of her papers. She received a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> for journalism in 1964 for her editorials about the civil rights movement during this period.<sup id="cite_ref-hazel_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hazel-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Freedom_Democratic_Party" title="Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party">Freedom Democratic Party</a> was organized in 1964 to work on black voter registration and education, and continued after passage of civil rights laws, in order to implement such laws. For instance, where white Democratic Party officials had defined the very large Lexington precinct, which held the majority of population, the county chapter of the FDP organized its own sub-precincts within it in order to communicate better with the community.<sup id="cite_ref-hdbk_17-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hdbk-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964" title="Civil Rights Act of 1964">Civil Rights Act of 1964</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965" title="Voting Rights Act of 1965">Voting Rights Act of 1965</a> were important but had to be implemented on the local level, where resistance to black voting continued to be strong, sometimes becoming violent. </p><p>The FDP worked with residents to register African-American voters and encourage them to vote. As resistance continued by white officials, in November 1965 a federal registrar was assigned to Holmes County, based on residents' petitions about the circuit clerk's discrimination over a 4-month period. After this, 2,000 black voters were registered in two months.<sup id="cite_ref-sojourner289_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sojourner289-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The FDP also worked with local people to run for positions on the <a href="/wiki/ASCS" class="mw-redirect" title="ASCS">ASCS</a> board. In the fall of 1965, six black farmers were elected to the county board, with four as alternates. This gave them a voice in determining how local programs would run.<sup id="cite_ref-sojourner289_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sojourner289-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But discrimination in USDA programs continued and was widespread, as shown by a late 20th-century national class-action suit, <i><a href="/wiki/Pigford_v._Glickman" title="Pigford v. Glickman">Pigford v. Glickman</a></i>, which was settled in 1999. Payments to members of the class affected continued into the 21st century.<sup id="cite_ref-CRS_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CRS-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-schneider_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-schneider-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1966 many communities in the county concentrated on setting up the new federal <a href="/wiki/Head_Start_program" class="mw-redirect" title="Head Start program">Head Start program</a> for young children. The FDP continued to work with other communities on correcting unfair hiring at factories and unequal administration of welfare, as well as trying to end discrimination at eating places.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From 1966 on, the FDP registered an increasing number of black voters and gained their participation in elections. By November 1967, nearly 6,000 new voters were registered in the county. </p><p>In 1967 black farmers and landowners, who had been part of the Movement since the early 1960s, accounted for eight of the ten candidates who ran for local and state offices: Thomas C. "Top Cat" Johnson,<sup id="cite_ref-candidates_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-candidates-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ed Noel McGaw, Jr.; Ward Montgomery; John Malone; Willie James Burns; John Daniel Wesley; Griffin McLaurin, and Ralthus Hayes.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-candidates_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-candidates-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McLaurin was elected as constable of one of the beats in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Clark_Jr." title="Robert G. Clark Jr.">Robert G. Clark Jr.</a> (born 1928) and Robert Smith, both teachers, had joined the Movement in 1966 and ran for state representative and county sheriff, respectively. Clark was a member of a landowning family in Ebenezer; he had a master's degree and had nearly finished his PhD from <a href="/wiki/Michigan_State_University" title="Michigan State University">Michigan State University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won a seat as the first and only black elected in 1967 to the Mississippi House of Representatives. By 2000, Clark had been re-elected to eight four-year terms in the state house and had been elected as Speaker three times since 1992.<sup id="cite_ref-msu_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msu-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was not until 1976 that another African American was elected to the state legislature, but then the number increased. Several blacks were elected to local offices in Holmes County well before that. </p><p>White people have also left the county since the mid-20th century because of declining work opportunities. Agribusinesses have bought up large tracts of land, and the number of independent farmers has declined markedly. By 2010, the total population was less than half that of 1940. Still largely rural, Holmes County in the 21st century has had problems associated with poverty and limited access to healthcare; as of 2011 it had the lowest <a href="/wiki/Life_expectancy" title="Life expectancy">life expectancy</a> of any county in the United States, for both men and women.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>According to the <a href="/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Census Bureau">U.S. Census Bureau</a>, the county has a total area of 765 square miles (1,980 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 757 square miles (1,960 km<sup>2</sup>) is land and 7.9 square miles (20 km<sup>2</sup>) (1.0%) is water.<sup id="cite_ref-GR1_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR1-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Major_highways">Major highways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Major highways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:I-55.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/I-55.svg/20px-I-55.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/I-55.svg/30px-I-55.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/38/I-55.svg/40px-I-55.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="601" data-file-height="601" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Interstate_55_in_Mississippi" title="Interstate 55 in Mississippi">Interstate 55</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_49.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/US_49.svg/20px-US_49.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/US_49.svg/30px-US_49.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/US_49.svg/40px-US_49.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_49_in_Mississippi" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Route 49 in Mississippi">U.S. Route 49</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:US_51.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/US_51.svg/20px-US_51.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/US_51.svg/30px-US_51.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/US_51.svg/40px-US_51.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/U.S._Route_51_in_Mississippi" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Route 51 in Mississippi">U.S. Route 51</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle_sign_12.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Circle_sign_12.svg/21px-Circle_sign_12.svg.png" decoding="async" width="21" height="21" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Circle_sign_12.svg/32px-Circle_sign_12.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Circle_sign_12.svg/42px-Circle_sign_12.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_12" title="Mississippi Highway 12">Mississippi Highway 12</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle_sign_14.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Circle_sign_14.svg/20px-Circle_sign_14.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Circle_sign_14.svg/30px-Circle_sign_14.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Circle_sign_14.svg/40px-Circle_sign_14.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_14" title="Mississippi Highway 14">Mississippi Highway 14</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle_sign_17.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Circle_sign_17.svg/20px-Circle_sign_17.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Circle_sign_17.svg/30px-Circle_sign_17.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1c/Circle_sign_17.svg/40px-Circle_sign_17.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_17" title="Mississippi Highway 17">Mississippi Highway 17</a></li> <li><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Circle_sign_19.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Circle_sign_19.svg/20px-Circle_sign_19.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Circle_sign_19.svg/30px-Circle_sign_19.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Circle_sign_19.svg/40px-Circle_sign_19.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="192" data-file-height="192" /></a></span> <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Highway_19" title="Mississippi Highway 19">Mississippi Highway 19</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjacent_counties">Adjacent counties</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Adjacent counties"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Mississippi" title="Carroll County, Mississippi">Carroll County</a> (north)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attala_County,_Mississippi" title="Attala County, Mississippi">Attala County</a> (east)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yazoo_County,_Mississippi" title="Yazoo County, Mississippi">Yazoo County</a> (south)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphreys_County,_Mississippi" title="Humphreys County, Mississippi">Humphreys County</a> (west)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leflore_County,_Mississippi" title="Leflore County, Mississippi">Leflore County</a> (northwest)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="National_protected_areas">National protected areas</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: National protected areas"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hillside_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Hillside National Wildlife Refuge">Hillside National Wildlife Refuge</a> (part)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathews_Brake_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge">Mathews Brake National Wildlife Refuge</a> (part)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Brake_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Morgan Brake National Wildlife Refuge">Morgan Brake National Wildlife Refuge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt_National_Wildlife_Refuge" title="Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge">Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge</a> (part)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Demographics">Demographics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Demographics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1224496135">.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop{border-spacing:1px;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;background-color:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa);padding:0.3em;font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop caption{background-color:lavender;color:black;padding-right:0.2em;padding-left:0.2em;font-size:110%;font-weight:bold;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;border-bottom:none}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop th[scope=col]{border-bottom:1px solid black}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(2){text-align:right;padding-left:0.5em;padding-right:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td.us-census-pop-estimate{padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(3){padding-left:0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop td:nth-child(4){padding-left:0.5em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-footnote{border-top:1px solid black;font-size:85%;text-align:center}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-right{float:right;clear:right;margin:0 0 1em 1em}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-left{float:left;clear:left;margin:0 1em 1em 0}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-center{float:none;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto}.mw-parser-output .us-census-pop-none{float:none;margin:0 1em 1em 0}}</style> <table class="us-census-pop us-census-pop-right"> <caption>Historical population</caption> <tbody><tr><th scope="col">Census</th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Population">Pop.</abbr></th><th scope="col"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1152813436">.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px;white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="sr-only">Note</span></th><th scope="col"><abbr title="Percent change">%±</abbr></th></tr> <tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1840_United_States_census" title="1840 United States census">1840</a></th><td>9,452</td><td></td><td>—</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1850_United_States_census" title="1850 United States census">1850</a></th><td>13,928</td><td></td><td>47.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1860_United_States_census" title="1860 United States census">1860</a></th><td>17,791</td><td></td><td>27.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1870_United_States_census" title="1870 United States census">1870</a></th><td>19,370</td><td></td><td>8.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1880_United_States_census" title="1880 United States census">1880</a></th><td>27,164</td><td></td><td>40.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1890_United_States_census" title="1890 United States census">1890</a></th><td>30,970</td><td></td><td>14.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1900_United_States_census" title="1900 United States census">1900</a></th><td>36,828</td><td></td><td>18.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1910_United_States_census" title="1910 United States census">1910</a></th><td>39,088</td><td></td><td>6.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_census" title="1920 United States census">1920</a></th><td>34,513</td><td></td><td>−11.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1930_United_States_census" title="1930 United States census">1930</a></th><td>38,534</td><td></td><td>11.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_census" title="1940 United States census">1940</a></th><td>39,710</td><td></td><td>3.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1950_United_States_census" title="1950 United States census">1950</a></th><td>33,301</td><td></td><td>−16.1%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_census" title="1960 United States census">1960</a></th><td>27,096</td><td></td><td>−18.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1970_United_States_census" title="1970 United States census">1970</a></th><td>23,120</td><td></td><td>−14.7%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_census" title="1980 United States census">1980</a></th><td>22,970</td><td></td><td>−0.6%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/1990_United_States_census" title="1990 United States census">1990</a></th><td>21,604</td><td></td><td>−5.9%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_census" title="2000 United States census">2000</a></th><td>21,609</td><td></td><td>0.0%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_census" title="2010 United States census">2010</a></th><td>19,198</td><td></td><td>−11.2%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row"><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_census" title="2020 United States census">2020</a></th><td>17,000</td><td></td><td>−11.4%</td></tr><tr><th scope="row">2023 (est.)</th><td class="us-census-pop-estimate">15,777</td><td><sup id="cite_ref-USCensusEst2023_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-USCensusEst2023-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td>−7.2%</td></tr><tr><td colspan="4" class="us-census-pop-footnote" style="text-align: center">U.S. Decennial Census<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1790-1960<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 1900-1990<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><br />1990-2000<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> 2010-2013<sup id="cite_ref-QF_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-QF-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>From 1940 until 1970, the county had major declines in population as many <a href="/wiki/African_Americans" title="African Americans">African Americans</a> left the state in the <a href="/wiki/Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Great Migration (African American)">Great Migration</a>. Whites have also left as economic opportunities were limited in the rural county. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020_census">2020 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 2020 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Holmes County Racial Composition<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Race </th> <th>Num. </th> <th>Perc. </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/White_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="White (U.S. Census)">White</a> </td> <td>2,359 </td> <td>13.88% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/African_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="African American (U.S. Census)">Black or African American</a> </td> <td>14,194 </td> <td>83.49% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Native_American_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Native American (U.S. Census)">Native American</a> </td> <td>36 </td> <td>0.21% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Asian_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian (U.S. Census)">Asian</a> </td> <td>20 </td> <td>0.12% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Pacific_Islander_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)">Pacific Islander</a> </td> <td>3 </td> <td>0.01% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Other/Mixed</a> </td> <td>279 </td> <td>1.64% </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hispanic_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Hispanic (U.S. Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Latino_(U.S._Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Latino (U.S. Census)">Latino</a> </td> <td>112 </td> <td>0.66% </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Census">2020 United States Census</a>, there were 17,000 people, 6,188 households, and 3,722 families residing in the county. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010_census">2010 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 2010 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/2010_United_States_Census" class="mw-redirect" title="2010 United States Census">2010 United States Census</a>, there were 19,198 people living in the county, less than half than at the peak of population in 1940. 83.4% were <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">Black or African American</a>, 15.6% <a href="/wiki/White_American" class="mw-redirect" title="White American">White</a>, 0.2% <a href="/wiki/Asian_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Asian American">Asian</a>, 0.1% <a href="/wiki/Native_Americans_in_the_United_States" title="Native Americans in the United States">Native American</a>, 0.1% of some other race and 0.6% <a href="/wiki/Multiracial_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Multiracial American">of two or more races</a>. 0.7% were <a href="/wiki/Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans" title="Hispanic and Latino Americans">Hispanic or Latino</a> (of any race). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000_census">2000 census</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: 2000 census"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As of the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR2_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, there were 21,609 people, 7,314 households, and 5,229 families living in the county. The <a href="/wiki/Population_density" title="Population density">population density</a> was 29 people per square mile (11 people/km<sup>2</sup>). There were 8,439 housing units at an average density of 11 units per square mile (4.2 units/km<sup>2</sup>). The racial makeup of the county was 78.66% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Black</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">African American</a>, 20.47% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">White</a>, 0.12% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Native American</a>, 0.15% <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Asian</a>, 0.07% from <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">other races</a>, and 0.52% from two or more races. 0.90% of the population were <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Hispanic</a> or <a href="/wiki/Race_(United_States_Census)" class="mw-redirect" title="Race (United States Census)">Latino</a> of any race. </p><p>According to the <a href="/wiki/Census" title="Census">census</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR2_34-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR2-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of 2000, the largest ancestry groups that residents of Holmes County identified were <a href="/wiki/African_American" class="mw-redirect" title="African American">African</a> 78.66%, <a href="/wiki/English_American" class="mw-redirect" title="English American">English</a> 11.4%, and <a href="/wiki/Scots-Irish_American" class="mw-redirect" title="Scots-Irish American">Scots-Irish</a> 5%. </p><p>There were 2,314 households, out of which 11.00% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 24.10% were <a href="/wiki/Marriage" title="Marriage">married couples</a> living together, 21.20% had a female householder with no husband present, and 18.50% were non-families. 16.30% of all households were made up of individuals, and 12.10% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.86 and the average family size was 3.48. </p><p>In the county, the population was spread out, with 32.10% under the age of 18, 12.40% from 18 to 24, 24.80% from 25 to 44, 18.30% from 45 to 64, and 12.40% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 30 years. For every 100 females there were 87.30 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 79.30 males. </p><p>The median income for a household in the county was $17,235, and the median income for a family was $21,757. Males had a median income of $23,720 versus $17,883 for females. The <a href="/wiki/Per_capita_income" title="Per capita income">per capita income</a> for the county was $10,683. About 35.90% of families and 41.10% of the population were below the <a href="/wiki/Poverty_line" class="mw-redirect" title="Poverty line">poverty line</a>, including 52.30% of those under age 18 and 36.40% of those age 65 or over. </p><p>Holmes County has the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_locations_by_per_capita_income" class="mw-redirect" title="Mississippi locations by per capita income">lowest</a> per capita income in Mississippi and the <a href="/wiki/Lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowest-income counties in the United States">41st lowest</a> in the United States. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Politics">Politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable sortable mw-collapsible floatright sticky-header-multi" style="font-size: 95%;"> <caption>United States presidential election results for Holmes County, Mississippi<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" rowspan="2">Year </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </th> <th scope="col" colspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Third_party_(U.S._politics)" title="Third party (U.S. politics)">Third party(ies)</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th>No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">%</th> <th scope="col">No. </th> <th scope="col">% </th></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2024 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2024</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,243 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">18.47% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,420 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>80.53%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">67 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2020 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2020</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,369 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">16.87% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6,588 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>81.18%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">158 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.95% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2016_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2016 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2016</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,309 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">16.21% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6,689 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>82.83%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">78 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.97% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2012_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2012 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2012</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,435 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">15.45% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7,812 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>84.11%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">41 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.44% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2008_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2008 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2008</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,714 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">17.96% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">7,765 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>81.37%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">64 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.67% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2004_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2004 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2004</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,961 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">23.39% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">6,366 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>75.94%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">56 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.67% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/2000_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="2000 United States presidential election in Mississippi">2000</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,937 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">26.10% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,447 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>73.39%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">38 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.51% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1996_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1996 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1996</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,536 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">23.96% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">4,720 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>73.62%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">155 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.42% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1992_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1992 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1992</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,694 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">28.17% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">4,092 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>68.04%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">228 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3.79% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1988_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1988 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1988</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,737 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">33.68% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,350 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>65.84%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">39 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.48% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1984_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1984 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1984</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,102 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">35.44% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,641 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>64.45%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">10 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.11% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1980 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1980</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,693 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">32.31% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">5,463 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>65.54%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">180 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.16% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1976 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1976</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2,438 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">33.85% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">4,616 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>64.08%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">149 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2.07% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1972 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1972</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,158 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">47.23% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">3,459 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>51.73%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">69 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.03% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1968_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1968 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1968</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">520 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">7.02% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">3,881 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>52.38%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">3,008 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">40.60% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b><a href="/wiki/1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1964 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1964</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">3,115 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6"><b>96.59%</b> </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">110 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">3.41% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FF7F00"><b><a href="/wiki/1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1960 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1960</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">455 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">17.72% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">628 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">24.46% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1,484 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>57.81%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FF7F00"><b><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1956 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1956</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">215 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">10.05% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">872 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">40.77% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1,052 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>49.18%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1952_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1952 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1952</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1,305 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">47.84% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,423 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>52.16%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background:#FF7F00"><b><a href="/wiki/1948_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1948 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1948</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">24 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1.08% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">61 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2.74% </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">2,139 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;"><b>96.18%</b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1944_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1944 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1944</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">122 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5.88% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,954 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>94.12%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1940_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1940 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1940</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">37 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1.78% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,041 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>98.22%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1936_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1936 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1936</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">12 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">0.63% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,885 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>99.37%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1932_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1932 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1932</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">45 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">2.43% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,799 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>97.14%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">8 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.43% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1928 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1928</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">134 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6.27% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">2,004 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>93.73%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1924_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1924 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1924</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">92 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">7.27% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,173 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>92.73%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">0.00% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1920_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1920 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1920</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">69 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">6.89% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">917 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>91.61%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">15 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.50% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1916_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1916 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1916</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">21 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">1.90% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">1,070 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>96.83%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">14 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">1.27% </td></tr> <tr> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b><a href="/wiki/1912_United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi" title="1912 United States presidential election in Mississippi">1912</a></b> </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">5 </td> <td style="background-color:#FFB6B6">0.51% </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF">936 </td> <td style="color:black;background-color:#B0CEFF"><b>95.32%</b> </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">41 </td> <td style="text-align:center; background:#F0FFF0;">4.18% </td></tr> </tbody></table> <p>During and following the <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction_era_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Reconstruction era (United States)">Reconstruction era</a> in the 19th century, African Americans had supported the Republican Party. It had achieved emancipation of slaves and granted freedmen full citizenship and constitutional rights through ratification of constitutional amendments. Following the effective <a href="/wiki/Disfranchisement_after_the_Reconstruction_era" title="Disfranchisement after the Reconstruction era">disenfranchisement</a> of blacks in 1890 by the state's new constitution with restrictions on voter registration, blacks were excluded from politics in Mississippi; other southern states repeated this model, so they were disenfranchised across the former Confederacy. However, the Republican Party retained influence through political appointments, and people struggled to control these within each southern state.<sup id="cite_ref-journal_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-journal-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Perry_Wilbon_Howard_II" title="Perry Wilbon Howard II">Perry Wilbon Howard</a> (born in <a href="/wiki/Ebenezer,_Mississippi" title="Ebenezer, Mississippi">Ebenezer</a> in 1877) was one of about two dozen African-American attorneys among the second generation of freedmen in the state. After passing the bar, he set up a practice in the capital of <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi" title="Jackson, Mississippi">Jackson, Mississippi</a>, where he worked for about fifteen years. Active in the Republican Party, he was a delegate to national conventions from 1912 to 1960, representing his constituents to the national party. Although he moved to Washington, DC, where he was partner in a prominent black law firm, Howard was elected as Republican National Committeeman from Mississippi in 1924. He retained control of this position (and patronage appointments) until 1960. He was appointed in 1923 to a national position in the Office of the Attorney General in the administration of <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a>, retaining it until resigning under President <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a> in 1928.<sup id="cite_ref-journal_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-journal-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Since the civil rights years and gains of enforcement in voting rights in the late 1960s, most African-American voters, who constitute a large majority in the county, have voted strongly for Democratic candidates in <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">Presidential</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congressional</a> elections. The last Republican presidential candidate to win a majority in the county was <a href="/wiki/Barry_Goldwater" title="Barry Goldwater">Barry Goldwater</a> in <a href="/wiki/United_States_presidential_election_in_Mississippi,_1964" class="mw-redirect" title="United States presidential election in Mississippi, 1964">1964</a>, at a time when nearly all African Americans in the county and state were still disenfranchised by the state's constitution and discriminatory practices. In 2008, Democrat <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> won 81 percent of the county's vote, as seen by the adjacent table. </p><p>Holmes is part of <a href="/wiki/Mississippi%27s_2nd_congressional_district" title="Mississippi's 2nd congressional district">Mississippi's 2nd congressional district</a>, which is represented by Democrat <a href="/wiki/Bennie_Thompson" title="Bennie Thompson">Bennie Thompson</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Colleges">Colleges</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Colleges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holmes_Community_College" title="Holmes Community College">Holmes Community College</a> (Goodman)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elementary_and_secondary_schools">Elementary and secondary schools</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Elementary and secondary schools"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During the segregation years, when black public schools were historically underfunded, Lexington in 1918 was the site for the founding of a private school for black students affiliated with the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_God_in_Christ" title="Church of God in Christ">Church of God in Christ</a>. It became known as <a href="/wiki/Saints_Academy_(Mississippi)" title="Saints Academy (Mississippi)">Saints Academy</a>. <a href="/wiki/Arenia_Mallory" title="Arenia Mallory">Arenia Mallory</a> was hired as a young music teacher and later was selected as principal in 1926. She expanded the school to serve more students, ultimately with classes in grades 1–12. Conducting fund raising outside the state, she promoted a strong academic education with Christian discipline, and her school was nationally known. She led it until her death in 1977, ultimately establishing an associated junior college. The academy continued until 2006. </p><p>During the period of integration of public schools in Mississippi in the late 1960s, many white parents in the majority-black Delta enrolled their children in newly established private <a href="/wiki/Segregation_academies" class="mw-redirect" title="Segregation academies">segregation academies</a>, as they did in Holmes County. But statewide most white children remained in public schools.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Holmes County, blacks had become well-organized. But in other areas they lost control of their schools, with administrations often dominated by whites, resulting in new problems after integration.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Public_Schooling">Public Schooling</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Public Schooling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Holmes_County_Consolidated_School_District" title="Holmes County Consolidated School District">Holmes County Consolidated School District</a><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><ul><li>The <a href="/wiki/Durant_School_District_(Mississippi)" class="mw-redirect" title="Durant School District (Mississippi)">Durant School District</a> was separate until 2018<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Private_schooling">Private schooling</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Private schooling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Central_Holmes_Christian_School" title="Central Holmes Christian School">Central Holmes Christian School</a> (Lexington) (formerly Central Holmes Academy, founded as a <a href="/wiki/Segregation_academy" title="Segregation academy">segregation academy</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-bolton_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bolton-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Old Dominion Christian School</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pillow_Academy" title="Pillow Academy">Pillow Academy</a> in unincorporated <a href="/wiki/Leflore_County,_Mississippi" title="Leflore County, Mississippi">Leflore County</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Greenwood,_Mississippi" title="Greenwood, Mississippi">Greenwood</a>, enrolls some students from Holmes County.<sup id="cite_ref-Profile20102011_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Profile20102011-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It originally was founded as a <a href="/wiki/Segregation_academy" title="Segregation academy">segregation academy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/East_Holmes_Academy" title="East Holmes Academy">East Holmes Academy</a>, A segregation academy that made national news in 1989 for offering to forfeit a game because the other school had a black player. Closed 2006.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Media">Media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The county newspaper is the <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holmescountyherald.com/"><i>Holmes County Herald</i></a>. It was established in 1959 as the weekly paper of the county chapter of the <a href="/wiki/Citizens%27_Councils" title="Citizens' Councils">White Citizens Council</a>, founded to resist integration of public schools and the civil rights movement.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Specifically it was founded to compete with <i>The Lexington Advertiser</i>, owned by local white publisher <a href="/wiki/Hazel_Brannon_Smith" title="Hazel Brannon Smith">Hazel Brannon Smith</a>, whose politics the White Citizens Council disliked. The Council arranged for Smith's husband to be fired from his job as county hospital administrator. Brannon Smith was eventually forced out of the business by white boycotts of her newspapers and the firebombing of one paper in <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi" title="Jackson, Mississippi">Jackson, Mississippi</a>. </p><p>The <i>Herald</i> published the names of African Americans who took action for civil rights in order to bring economic and political pressure against them. For instance, in April 1963 it published interviews and the names of 14 blacks who attempted to register to vote at the county courthouse in Lexington. The county circuit clerk published the names weekly of persons who tried to register to vote, thus identifying them for reprisals.<sup id="cite_ref-lorenzi_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-lorenzi-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Known or suspected activists were fired from jobs and evicted from rental housing as the Council tried to suppress the civil rights movement. The <i>Herald</i> was bought by an independent person in 1970. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Communities">Communities</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cities">Cities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Cities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Durant,_Mississippi" title="Durant, Mississippi">Durant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a> (county seat)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Towns">Towns</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Towns"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Cruger,_Mississippi" title="Cruger, Mississippi">Cruger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Goodman,_Mississippi" title="Goodman, Mississippi">Goodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pickens,_Mississippi" title="Pickens, Mississippi">Pickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tchula,_Mississippi" title="Tchula, Mississippi">Tchula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/West,_Mississippi" title="West, Mississippi">West</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unincorporated_communities">Unincorporated communities</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Unincorporated communities"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 22em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Acona,_Mississippi" title="Acona, Mississippi">Acona</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brozville,_Mississippi" title="Brozville, Mississippi">Brozville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coxburg,_Mississippi" title="Coxburg, Mississippi">Coxburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ebenezer,_Mississippi" title="Ebenezer, Mississippi">Ebenezer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egypt,_Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Egypt, Holmes County, Mississippi">Egypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eulogy,_Mississippi" title="Eulogy, Mississippi">Eulogy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin,_Mississippi" title="Franklin, Mississippi">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Good_Hope,_Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Good Hope, Holmes County, Mississippi">Good Hope</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gwin,_Mississippi" title="Gwin, Mississippi">Gwin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard,_Mississippi" title="Howard, Mississippi">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ituma,_Mississippi" title="Ituma, Mississippi">Ituma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcella,_Mississippi" title="Marcella, Mississippi">Marcella</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mileston,_Mississippi" title="Mileston, Mississippi">Mileston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montgomery,_Mississippi" title="Montgomery, Mississippi">Montgomery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oregon,_Mississippi" title="Oregon, Mississippi">Oregon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Owens_Wells,_Mississippi" title="Owens Wells, Mississippi">Owens Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pluto,_Mississippi" title="Pluto, Mississippi">Pluto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quofaloma,_Mississippi" title="Quofaloma, Mississippi">Quofaloma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richland,_Holmes_County,_Mississippi" title="Richland, Holmes County, Mississippi">Richland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thornton,_Mississippi" title="Thornton, Mississippi">Thornton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tolarville,_Mississippi" title="Tolarville, Mississippi">Tolarville</a></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ghost_town">Ghost town</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Ghost town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Oswego,_Mississippi" title="Oswego, Mississippi">Oswego</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Homer_Casteel" title="Homer Casteel">Homer Casteel</a>, politician and public servant; lieutenant governor 1920 to 1924; member of the <a href="/wiki/Mississippi_Public_Service_Commission" title="Mississippi Public Service Commission">Mississippi Public Service Commission</a> from 1936 to 1952.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_G._Clark,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Robert G. Clark, Jr.">Robert G. Clark, Jr.</a>, teacher, coach and politician; in 1967 he was elected to the state legislature as the first African-American member since Reconstruction; he was elected to eight consecutive four-year terms and as Speaker of the state House in 1992, 1996 and 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-msu_24-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msu-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Fonti" title="Steven Fonti">Steven Fonti</a>, animator and storyboard artist, was born in Holmes County.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perry_Wilbon_Howard_II" title="Perry Wilbon Howard II">Perry Wilbon Howard</a>, attorney and Republican Party National Committeeman, was appointed to a national position in the Department of Justice under President <a href="/wiki/Warren_G._Harding" title="Warren G. Harding">Warren G. Harding</a>, serving into <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover" title="Herbert Hoover">Herbert Hoover</a>'s administration. He was the highest-ranking African American in government.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arenia_Mallory" title="Arenia Mallory">Arenia Mallory</a>, principal and president of <a href="/wiki/Saints_Academy_(Mississippi)" title="Saints Academy (Mississippi)">Saints Academy</a>. She had a more than 50-year career with this school, which she built into an academically successful, nationally known private school for black children during the segregation years, also expanding to a junior college. A leader in African-American women's national organizations, she served in the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> administration.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmond_Favor_Noel" class="mw-redirect" title="Edmond Favor Noel">Edmond Favor Noel</a>, Governor of Mississippi, 1908–1912, was born to a planter family in <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a>. He became an attorney and politician, serving in the state house and then the state senate both before and after his tenure as governor. He improved education in the state.</li> <li>Edmond F. Noel Sr (1916-1986), physician, born in Holmes County and reared in <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Mississippi" title="Jackson, Mississippi">Jackson, Mississippi</a>, was a <a href="/wiki/Howard_University" title="Howard University">Howard University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fisk_University" title="Fisk University">Fisk University</a> graduate, and a World War II veteran. Recruited to practice in <a href="/wiki/Denver,_Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Denver, Colorado">Denver, Colorado</a> in 1949, he was the first African-American physician in the city to be granted staff hospital privileges.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-dp080205_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-dp080205-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>Edmond "Eddie" F. Noel (1926-1990), was born and lived in Lexington. An African-American veteran of World War II, he killed three white men in January 1954, including a deputy sheriff, and evaded capture for three weeks, making national news. He was hunted by numerous men, dogs, and even observers in planes. He turned himself in to the court, and the judge ordered a mental evaluation. Noel was committed by the court to the state mental institution, where he was held for more than a decade. He was released in 1970 and lived his last 20 years with his family, who had migrated to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana" title="Fort Wayne, Indiana">Fort Wayne, Indiana</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hazel_Brannon_Smith" title="Hazel Brannon Smith">Hazel Brannon Smith</a>, publisher and journalist, in 1935 purchased <i>The Durant News</i> and <i>The Lexington Advertiser</i> in Lexington; she published them for decades and was noted in the region for her fair coverage and later support of civil rights. She opposed the <a href="/wiki/White_Citizens_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="White Citizens Council">White Citizens Council</a>, which conducted an advertising boycott against her papers. In 1964 she was the first woman to win a <a href="/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize" title="Pulitzer Prize">Pulitzer Prize</a> for editorial writing, for her editorials on civil rights, the same year her paper in Jackson, <i>The Northside Reporter</i>, was firebombed. She was forced out of business.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Carolyn_Haines" title="Carolyn Haines">Carolyn Haines</a>, an American mystery writer, sets many of her novels in Holmes County and other parts of the Mississippi Delta.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: See 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href="https://data.census.gov/profile/Holmes_County,_Mississippi?g=0500000US28051">"Census - Geography Profile: Holmes County, Mississippi"</a>. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Census_Bureau" title="United States Census Bureau">United States Census Bureau</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Cobb, Jr. <i>On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail</i> (2008)</li> <li>Sue (Lorenzi) Sojourner and Cheryl Reitan, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iJSegIsw8cwC&q=thunder+of+freedom"><i>Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s Mississippi</i></a>, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013.</li> <li>Jan Whitt, <i>Burning Crosses and Activist Journalism: Hazel Brannon Smith and the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement</i>, Lanham, MD: University Press of America (UPA), 2009 (paperback)</li> <li>Charles Reagan Wilson, "Chinese in Mississippi: An Ethnic People in a Biracial Society," <i>Mississippi History Now,</i> November 2002.</li> <li>Youth Of The Rural Organizing and Cultural Center, <i>Minds Stayed on Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle In The Rural South — An Oral History.</i> Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1991.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Holmes_County,_Mississippi&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holmescountyms.org/">Holmes County Official webpage</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.holmescountyherald.com/"><i>Holmes County Herald</i></a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html">Library of Congress - The Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection</a> - Photos of life in 1930s-era Holmes County</li> <li>Oliver Laughland, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/06/in-the-poorest-county-in-americas-poorest-state-a-virus-hits-home-hunger-is-rampant">"In the poorest county, in America’s poorest state, a virus hits home: 'Hunger is rampant,'"</a> <i>The Guardian,</i> April 6, 2020.</li> <li>Sue-Henry Lorenzi, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.crmvet.org/docs/6608_mfdp_hc-excom-r.pdf">"Holmes County Freedom Democratic Party Executive Members' Handbook," August 1966</a>, Southern Freedom Movement Documents 1951-1968/ Listed by Kind of Document, Civil Rights Movement Archive website</li></ul> <div class="navbox-styles"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline 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style="width:1%;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/City" title="City">Cities</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Durant,_Mississippi" title="Durant, Mississippi">Durant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Mississippi" title="Lexington, Mississippi">Lexington</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="4" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Map of Mississippi highlighting Holmes County"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg/62px-Map_of_Mississippi_highlighting_Holmes_County.svg.png" decoding="async" width="62" height="100" class="mw-file-element" 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title="Grenada, Mississippi">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hattiesburg,_Mississippi" title="Hattiesburg, Mississippi">Hattiesburg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horn_Lake,_Mississippi" title="Horn Lake, Mississippi">Horn Lake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi" title="Indianola, Mississippi">Indianola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Itta_Bena,_Mississippi" title="Itta Bena, Mississippi">Itta Bena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iuka,_Mississippi" title="Iuka, Mississippi">Iuka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laurel,_Mississippi" title="Laurel, Mississippi">Laurel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Long_Beach,_Mississippi" title="Long Beach, Mississippi">Long Beach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louisville,_Mississippi" title="Louisville, Mississippi">Louisville</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison,_Mississippi" title="Madison, Mississippi">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magee,_Mississippi" title="Magee, Mississippi">Magee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/McComb,_Mississippi" title="McComb, Mississippi">McComb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendenhall,_Mississippi" title="Mendenhall, Mississippi">Mendenhall</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meridian,_Mississippi" title="Meridian, Mississippi">Meridian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moss_Point,_Mississippi" title="Moss Point, Mississippi">Moss Point</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natchez,_Mississippi" title="Natchez, Mississippi">Natchez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ocean_Springs,_Mississippi" title="Ocean Springs, Mississippi">Ocean Springs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Olive_Branch,_Mississippi" title="Olive Branch, Mississippi">Olive Branch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oxford,_Mississippi" title="Oxford, Mississippi">Oxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pascagoula,_Mississippi" title="Pascagoula, Mississippi">Pascagoula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pass_Christian,_Mississippi" title="Pass Christian, Mississippi">Pass Christian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl,_Mississippi" title="Pearl, Mississippi">Pearl</a></li> <li><a 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_counties_in_Mississippi" title="List of counties in Mississippi">Counties</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adams_County,_Mississippi" title="Adams County, Mississippi">Adams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alcorn_County,_Mississippi" title="Alcorn County, Mississippi">Alcorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amite_County,_Mississippi" title="Amite County, Mississippi">Amite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attala_County,_Mississippi" title="Attala County, Mississippi">Attala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benton_County,_Mississippi" title="Benton County, Mississippi">Benton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bolivar_County,_Mississippi" title="Bolivar County, Mississippi">Bolivar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calhoun_County,_Mississippi" title="Calhoun County, Mississippi">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carroll_County,_Mississippi" title="Carroll County, Mississippi">Carroll</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chickasaw_County,_Mississippi" title="Chickasaw County, Mississippi">Chickasaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Choctaw_County,_Mississippi" title="Choctaw County, Mississippi">Choctaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claiborne_County,_Mississippi" title="Claiborne County, Mississippi">Claiborne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarke_County,_Mississippi" title="Clarke County, Mississippi">Clarke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clay_County,_Mississippi" title="Clay County, Mississippi">Clay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coahoma_County,_Mississippi" title="Coahoma County, Mississippi">Coahoma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Copiah_County,_Mississippi" title="Copiah County, Mississippi">Copiah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Covington_County,_Mississippi" title="Covington County, Mississippi">Covington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/DeSoto_County,_Mississippi" title="DeSoto County, Mississippi">DeSoto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forrest_County,_Mississippi" title="Forrest County, Mississippi">Forrest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_County,_Mississippi" title="Franklin County, Mississippi">Franklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_County,_Mississippi" title="George County, Mississippi">George</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greene_County,_Mississippi" title="Greene County, Mississippi">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenada_County,_Mississippi" title="Grenada County, Mississippi">Grenada</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hancock_County,_Mississippi" title="Hancock County, Mississippi">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_County,_Mississippi" title="Harrison County, Mississippi">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hinds_County,_Mississippi" title="Hinds County, Mississippi">Hinds</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Holmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Humphreys_County,_Mississippi" title="Humphreys County, Mississippi">Humphreys</a></li> <li><a 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County, Mississippi">Lamar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauderdale_County,_Mississippi" title="Lauderdale County, Mississippi">Lauderdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lawrence_County,_Mississippi" title="Lawrence County, Mississippi">Lawrence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leake_County,_Mississippi" title="Leake County, Mississippi">Leake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lee_County,_Mississippi" title="Lee County, Mississippi">Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leflore_County,_Mississippi" title="Leflore County, Mississippi">Leflore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lincoln_County,_Mississippi" title="Lincoln County, Mississippi">Lincoln</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lowndes_County,_Mississippi" title="Lowndes County, Mississippi">Lowndes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Madison_County,_Mississippi" title="Madison County, Mississippi">Madison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marion_County,_Mississippi" title="Marion County, Mississippi">Marion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marshall_County,_Mississippi" title="Marshall 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