Indianola

Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 12,066 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Sunflower County. In July 1954, two months after the Supreme Court of the United States announced its unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education, local plantation manager Robert B. Patterson met with a group of like-minded individuals in a private home in Indianola to form the White Citizens' Council. Indianola is located at 33°26′53″N 90°38′51″W / 33.44806°N 90.6475°W / 33.44806; -90.6475 (33.447999, -90.647414) at the junction of U.S. Routes 82 and 49W. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 8.7 square miles (23 km), of which 8.6 square miles (22 km)...