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Tupelo leaders celebrate opening of newly renovated Oren Dunn City Museum

TUPELO • Residents of the All-America City will now be able to understand Tupelo’s story a little better. City officials on Friday morning conducted a ribbon cutting ceremony for the newly revamped Oren Dunn City Museum located at Ballard Park on Rutherford Road. For the past year, the museum has undergone a massive renovation with new exhibits, including ones that explore the city’s rich musical history and tell the story of President Franklin Roosevelt famous visit to Tupelo in the 1930s. “This tells the timeline of how the city of Tupelo really transformed from being one of the poorest cities of the poorest regions in the entire United States to what we have become today,” Mayor Jason Shelton said.

Tupelo prepares for burger, car festivals

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Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi, Illinois

Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi, Illinois DANNY MCARTHUR, Daily Journal FacebookTwitterEmail TUPELO, Miss. (AP) It was a near-miss snake bite that finally spurred Clodie Casey to leave his job at a Fulton sawmill and head north. Not that he hadn’t been considering leaving the South already. Many Black people had for a host of reasons. But nearly being bitten must have caused Casey to re-evaluate his situation, because that same day, he headed for Illinois. “My dad went up there for opportunity to work, opportunity to, of course, raise his family,” said his son, Jim Casey, who lives in Tupelo. “It was a time of mass migration to the North.”

Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi, Illinois

From Mississippi to the Promised Land: Great Migration creates ties between Mississippi and Illinois