Travel Guide Indianola

In 1882, the city was called «Indian Bayou» because the banks of the river were previously occupied by a choctaw village. She then changed his name several times before Indianola was detained in 1886, in honour of an Indian princess named Ola.In 1891, Minnie Cox (1869-1933) was named receveuse, becoming the first black woman occupying this function in the United States. Faced with the following race tensions, Cox presented his resignation in 1903. The case took a national dimension and President Roosevelt closed the post office while allowing Cox to continue collecting his salary. The office would only re-elect the following year. At the beginning and middle of the 1940 th century, a number of blues musicians from the region became known, including B.B. King (born in 1925 in Berclair, about 1956 miles east), who worked here in the cotton industry in the s, but also Albert King (1923-1992) and more recently Willie Clayton () who were born in the city itself. In 2008, it was decided to build here the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center.We come to Indianola to visit its historic district, Church Server and Club Ebony, but especially for its fascinating museum. Until the year of his death, in 2015 B.B. King returned regularly to the city for the B.B. King Esch Festival, which is taking place every year since 1980.