COTTONLANDIA EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FOUNDATION INC

GREENWOOD, MS

Cottonlandia Educational and Recreational Foundation Inc (CERF) is a non-profit organization located in Greenwood, Mississippi. The foundation aims to provide educational and recreational opportunities for the children of Leflore County and the Mississippi Delta. CERF was founded in 2001 by a group of local citizens who wanted to help the area’s youth. The foundation focuses on providing educational programs such as tutoring, mentoring, and after-school activities as well as recreational activities such as sports and arts. CERF has a track record of success, having successfully trained hundreds of local children in the areas of math, science, technology, and the arts. The foundation also provides educational and recreational opportunities for adults, such as job skills training, educational workshops, and recreational activities. CERF is supported by private donations and corporate sponsorships, and has received grants from the Mississippi Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. CERF’s programs are designed to help children of all ages build the skills they need to be successful in school and in life.

COTTONLANDIA EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FOUNDATION INC is a History Museum in GREENWOOD MS. US MID #8402800083

The museum is classed as HST (History Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Southeastern (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia). Total revenue from most recent IRS 990 Form: $ 149,731 from tax period 201209 (YYYYMM).

Ben Roy’s Service Station The ruins of Bryant’s Grocery &amp; Meat Market stands sixty-seven feet from this restored building. Both stores are now owned by a trio of siblings with a personal investment – and in their twisted greed, a financial investment – in the memory of Till’s murder.

Annette Morgan, Harry Tribble, and Martin Tribble are the three children of Ray Tribble, an unrepentant juror from the 1955 trial of Till killers Roy Bryant and J. W. Milam. After the trial, the elder Tribble excelled in business, the family accrued farmland around Money and, in the mid 1980s, the Tribble brothers purchased the two-story building that once housed Bryant’s Grocery. After Annette and Harry purchased Ben Roy’s Service Station in 2003, the family owned everything in Money except the Baptist church and the decommissioned post office. While only Bryant’s Grocery had a direct link to the murder of Emmett Till, both stores have come to play a large, if competing, role in the commemoration of the crime.

According to the Emmett Till Interpretive Center these current owners have been trying to sell to them the two buildings (though they have let Bryant's fall into nearly complete ruin and buried it in undergrowth) for an exorbitant sum.

Blood money.

Walking south toward the store along Money Road …. The cotton mill had opened a few years earlier.

20220420-OSE-LSC-0021 U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Policy Council Director Susan Rice, Congressman Bennie Thompson, MS CD2, City of Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital CEO Jason Studley, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital Chairman Harris Banks, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital Vice-Chairman Marcus Banks, and City of Greenwood Council President Ronnie Stevenson arrive at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital for a roundtable discussion with local community stakeholders, in Greenwood, MS, on April 20, 2022. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

20220420-OSE-LSC-0020 U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Policy Council Director Susan Rice, Congressman Bennie Thompson, MS CD2, City of Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital CEO Jason Studley, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital Chairman Harris Banks, Greenwood-Leflore Hospital Vice-Chairman Marcus Banks, and City of Greenwood Council President Ronnie Stevenson arrive at the Greenwood Leflore Hospital for a roundtable discussion with local community stakeholders, in Greenwood, MS, on April 20, 2022. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

20220129-RD-LSC-0488 A sign comemorates blues legends and notable people who have performed and or lived in the Baptist Town neighborhood of Greenwood, MS, on January 28, 2022. People such as Robert Johnson, Honeyboy Edwards, Harvie Cook, Willie Cobbs and Morgan Freeman are some who are mentioned. USDA Media by Lance Cheung.

20220125-RD-LSC-0477 Center, Doris, talked about the sagging ceiling behind her, as she gives a tour of her house to U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA, Rural Development RD Undersecretary Xochitl Torres Small who then learns more of the issues from Delta Design Build Workshop Social Impact Architect Emily Roush Elliott, grey coat and jeans; and Hope Enterprise Corporation VP Community and Economic Development Dee Jones, red coat, in Greenwood, MS on January 25, 2022. Doris's home is in need of structural repair to fix sagging ceiling beams, separating walls, broken foundations, and deteriorating ceiling panels.

Delta Design Build Workshop has been working with Doris to apply for U.S. Department of Agriculture USDA Rural Development RD Housing Preservation grant money to repair what her fixed income can not support. Water leaked through the roof, and other factors have contributed to the house’s structural problems. USDA media by Lance Cheung.

For more information about Preservation Grants, please go to rd.usda.gov/programs-services/single-family-housing-programs/housing-preservation-grants

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COTTONLANDIA EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
1608 HIGHWAY 82 W
GREENWOOD
MS
38930-2725

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MID #	8402800083
Name	COTTONLANDIA EDUCATIONAL AND RECREATIONAL FOUNDATION INC
Alternate Name
Classification	History Museums, , Southeastern
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)	237068702
NTEECC	A54
Tax period of the latest return filed (YYYYMM)	201209
INCOME	149,731
REVENUE	149,731
LAT/LONG	33.526971, -90.213587
CODES	FIPS State Code: 28 FIPS County Code: 083 US Census Tract: 950600 US Census Block: 3069