Fayette, Mississippi
| Fayette, Mississippi | |
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 Location of Fayette, Mississippi |
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 Fayette, Mississippi
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| Coordinates: 31°42′40″N 91°3′44″W / 31.71111°N 91.06222°WCoordinates: 31°42′40″N 91°3′44″W / 31.71111°N 91.06222°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Mississippi |
| County | Jefferson |
| Government | |
| • Type | Mayor-Alderman |
| • Mayor | Roger King |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km2) |
| • Land | 1.2 sq mi (3.1 km2) |
| • Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Elevation | 282 ft (86 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 1,614 |
| • Density | 1,903.3/sq mi (734.9/km2) |
| Time zone | Central (CST) (UTC-6) |
| • Summer (DST) | CDT (UTC-5) |
| ZIP codes | 39069, 39081 |
| Area code(s) | 601 |
| FIPS code | 28-24500 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0669927 |
Fayette is a city in Jefferson County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 1,614 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Jefferson County.
Fayette is located at 31°42′40″N 91°3′44″W / 31.71111°N 91.06222°W (31.711144, -91.062246).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.2 square miles (3.1 km2), all land.
In 1879, the Jesse James gang, based in Missouri, raided southwest Mississippi, robbing a store each in Washington and Fayette. The outlaws absconded with $2,000 cash in the second robbery and took shelter in abandoned cabins on the Kemp Plantation south of St. Joseph, Louisiana. A posse attacked and killed two of the outlaws but failed to capture the entire gang. Jesse James and most of his gang succeeded in returning to Missouri. He was killed three years in 1882 at his house in St. Joseph in northwestern Missouri.
In 1890 the white Democrat-controlled legislature passed a new constitution, which effective disenfranchised most blacks in the state, crippling their integration into society and the Republican Party of the time. After Congressional passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, blacks began to register and vote again. Charles Evers was elected as mayor in 1969 by the people of Fayette; he was the first African-American mayor elected in post-Reconstruction Mississippi. He beat the white incumbent R.G. Allen by 386-225. Evers was an activist and the brother of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, head of the Mississippi chapter of the NAACP when he was assassinated in 1963.
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