Bogue Chitto, Alabama
Unincorporated community
BogueChitto is located in Alabama
BogueChitto
Bogue
Chitto
Location within the state of Alabama
BogueChitto is located in the United States
BogueChitto
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Chitto
Bogue
Chitto (the United States)
Coordinates: 32°21′58″N 87°18′14″W / 32.366°N 87.304°W / 32.366; -87.304
CountryUnited States
StateAlabama
CountyDallas
Elevation
151 ft (46 m)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code334

Bogue Chitto /boʊɡ ˈtʃɪtə/ is an unincorporated community in Dallas County, Alabama.[1] It was named for the nearby creek of the same name, which in the Choctaw language means "big stream."[2]

History

In the early 1900s, the population consisted of black landowners whose ancestors had been enslaved on the cotton-producing plantations and had bought land there after the American Civil War ended. Almost every man was registered to vote and did vote, from Reconstruction until their rights were taken away. A spirit of independence, caused by landownership, prevented even the Ku Klux Klan from infringing upon their rights: "Local lore had it that the Klan came calling one night, looking for a Bogue Chitto man who had refused to doff his hat to a white man and say 'Yessir'. They were met by a spray of bullets and did not come back".[3]

Inoculations against typhoid in 1930 were administered to over 900 people in Bogue Chitto. Amelia Platts, a "black home demonstration agent" ("community clubs" had been opened throughout Dallas County to help improve the lives of African-American farmers and their families) who attended the county nurse during the process, noted an active community spirit. It was one of the first places to welcome voter registration classes a decade later. Later, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee got four volunteers from Bogue Chitto and a minister from a church just south of the community to help with voter registration efforts in the area.[3]

Geography

Bogue Chitto is located at 32°21′58″N 87°18′14″W / 32.366°N 87.304°W / 32.366; -87.304 and has an elevation of 151 feet (46 m).[1]

Notable inhabitants

  • Redoshi, a woman originally from Benin, West Africa, was kidnapped and sold to a Dallas County enslaver.
  • Amelia Boynton Robinson, Civil Rights activist, based on Bogue Chitto[4]

References

  1. 1 2 U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bogue Chitto, Alabama
  2. ↑ "In The Supreme Court Of Mississippi No. 2009-CA-00243-SCT" (PDF). State of Mississippi Judiciary. Retrieved August 2, 2011.
  3. 1 2 Forner, Karlyn (2017). Why the Vote Wasn't Enough for Selma. Duke University Press. p. 83. ISBN 9780822372233.
  4. ↑ Durkin, Hannah (2019). "Finding last middle passage survivor Sally 'Redoshi' Smith on the page and screen". Slavery & Abolition. doi:10.1080/0144039X.2019.1596397.


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