• The Leake County Revelers were a country music string band popular in the U.S. South in the 1920s and 1930s. The members were from in and around Sebastopol...
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    Sebastopol, Mississippi (category Towns in Leake County, Mississippi)
    Grove Pentecostal Church.[citation needed] The Leake County Revelers, country music string band Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic...
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  • Orpheus Quartet (1918). The song was recorded in many different musical styles; for example, the country group The Leake County Revelers recorded a country...
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  • Music of Mississippi (category Music of the United States by state)
    recordings in the late 1920s-1930s. The Leake County Revelers' brand of folk music saw some national popularity late in the 1930s, at around the same time...
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  • personal collection of 78 rpm recordings from the 1920s and 1930s by Charlie Poole, the Leake County Revelers, Crockett's Mountaineers and similar string...
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    county. Leake served as a United States Senator for the State of Mississippi from 1817 to 1820. While in the Senate, Leake served as Chairman of the Committee...
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    Mary transferred the shop to Hiram Revels before she remarried. Revels attended the Beech Grove Quaker Seminary, a school in Union County, Indiana, founded...
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    James L. Alcorn (category People from Coahoma County, Mississippi)
    Livingston County, Kentucky. He was admitted to the Kentucky bar in 1838 and for six years practicing law in Salem, Kentucky. He served in the Kentucky...
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    resisted the arrest of one of their community, killing one white man. A mob of whites quickly gathered, killing nine blacks by the next day. The county sheriff...
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  • Madden, Mississippi (category Unincorporated communities in Leake County, Mississippi)
    an unincorporated community in Leake County, Mississippi. It had a population of 74 in 2006. Madden is the home of Leake Academy, a private nonprofit Christian...
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