is no place to start a school. The Frank Streater Consolidated School (White) was constructed in Minter City in 1921. The abandoned building burned in 2013. Minter City was the site of a lynching in 1933. Richard Roscoe, an African-American Baptist deacon and tenant farmer, had been in a physical altercation with the white plantation manager, and both men had been injured. An hour later, Roscoe was abducted, shot dead, and then dragged through the streets of Minter City tied to the back of the sheriff's car. Education Areas in Leflore County are is in the Greenwood-Leflore School District. Residents are zoned to Amanda Elzy High School. This area was formerly served by the Leflore County School District. T.Y. Fleming Elementary School was in the area, but it closed in 2009. The editor of the Greenwood Commonwealth criticized the closure. Effective July 1, 2019 the Leflore district district consolidated into the Greenwood-Leflore School District. Areas in the Tallahatchie County portion are zoned to the West Tallahatchie School District. The local schools for West Tallahatchie are R. H. Bearden Elementary School and West Tallahatchie High School. Previously Black Bayou Elementary School in Glendora served southern parts of the West Tallahatchie district. The district decided to close Black Bayou in 1998. Previously West District Middle School (now Bearden) served as a middle school for the West Tallahatchie area. Mississippi Delta Community College is the designated community college for Leflore County. Coahoma Community College is the designated community college for Tallahatchie County. In popular culture Richard Ford references Minter City in his 1996 novel Independence Day. Notable people L.C. Green, blues guitarist. Lusia Harris, Olympic silver medalist and All American basketball player. M. Carl Holman, author, poet and playwright. Kemp Malone, linguist and literary scholar. Solomon Osborne, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives Homer Spragins, former pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies References External links Greenwood, Mississippi micropolitan area Unincorporated communities in Leflore County, Mississippi Unincorporated communities in Mississippi