History
Todd J. Moye, author of Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986, said that the white residents of Drew "traditionally been regarded as the most recalcitrant in the count on racial matters." During the 20th Century African-American Civil Rights Movement, when attempts were made to move Fannie Lou Hamer's movement for poor people in Ruleville to Drew, the organizers, according to Moye, "faced stiff resistance." Mae Bertha Carter, a major figure in the area civil rights movement, originated from Drew.
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