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LITTLE ZION MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH

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c. 1920. 63530 Money Rd., approximately 3 miles northwest of Greenwood

Tucked into a grove of trees beside a cemetery, this simple front-gabled white wooden church was once a common type in the Mississippi Delta. Such rural churches, usually situated on land donated by the plantation owner, anchored busy agricultural communities of mostly black tenant and sharecropping families. After machines replaced the workers, the houses were demolished for expanded fields, and many of the churches were abandoned. Little Zion is still active and is a pilgrimage site for blues fans who visit the probable grave of bluesman Robert Johnson. Little Zion also appears in the 2011 film The Help.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller
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Citation

Jennifer V.O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio with Mary Warren Miller, "LITTLE ZION MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH", [Greenwood, Mississippi], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/MS-02-DR60.

Print Source

Buildings of Mississippi, Jennifer V. O. Baughn and Michael W. Fazio. With Mary Warren Miller. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2021, 134-135.

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