Murder For Money and Hides: The Death of Abraham Levine
The Sunday of December 5th, 1926 looked to be promising for Abraham Levine. He had been told that a Mexican living out from Lula had hides for sale. All he…
Category: Stories of the Delta
Archibald Dobbins on the Run
On November 5, 1855 a dastardly incident took place in the small town of Friars Point in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Archibald Dobbins stabbed to death Littleton Tennill while the two…
“The Red Headed Bandit” Ira G. Allen
Masked gunman from the 1920s. On February 24, 1927 two masked men entered the central office of Standard Oil Company in Memphis, Tennessee armed with revolvers. Their intent was robbery…
Robbery at Rendezvous Lodge
Moon Lake: picture by James Dean Moon Lake in Northern Coahoma County was known as a resort for the surrounding counties during the 1920s and 1930s. Young and old flocked…
Pedro is Waiting
In a tucked away corner of Maple Hill Cemetery lies the Moore family plot. You can tell the Moores were wealthy by the way their markers look. A number of…
Murder of Aubrey Prince
For the last thirty years my parents and I have had to take care of Dowd Cemetery out from Maud in Tunica County. One of those tombstones at Dowd belongs…
Southland College
Southland College was a beacon of light in the Arkansas Delta for thousands of African American families. It was the first institution of higher learning for African Americans west of…
The Hustlerettes and the Lula Hotel
Straub, Virginia Merrifield. Phillips County Historical Quarterly. Volume 19, Number 3 & 4. June and September 1981. Published by The Phillips County Historical Society. Helena, Arkansas. This story is taken directly…
