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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Leflore County, Mississippi. Official Website The county was formed in 1871 and was named for Choctaw leader Greenwood LeFlore, who signed a treaty to cede his people's land to the United States in exchange for land in Indian Territory. Following the American Civil War, during Reconstruction the majority-black population of freedme...
Wikipedia =Mississippi Valley State University (commonly referred to as MVSU, The Valley or Valley) is a public, historically black university located in Mississippi Valley State, Leflore County, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, near Itta Bena. MVSU is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Notable Alumni