At the intersection of Hwy 61 and Hwy 49 just north of Clarksdale, Mississippi, you will find The Crossroads.
Condolences flooded the page, including one from a man who wrote that McMillian, 34, was one of Clarksdale's best leaders.
All that began to crumble on October 2nd 1944, the day of the first public demonstration of mechanical cotton-picking in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
From the age of six he had walked to school in Clarksdale, Mississippi, past the house of a middle-aged lady called Miss Boozie.
On the other side of the Mississippi, Clarksdale is the site of the Delta Blues Museum which features a wax replica of a legendary bluesman, Muddy Waters.
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On Wednesday, authorities found McMillian's body near a levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, two unincorporated communities about 15 minutes away from Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi's Delta region.
"As a little girl, watching television in Mississippi, I was not exposed to blacks in any positions of power or affluence, " said iReporter Elnora Fondren Palmtag of Clarksdale, Mississippi.
The interesting distorted guitar on the track, an innovation in itself, was another piece of happenstance: somebody dropped the amplifier, or the rain leaked in on it, as the band drove from Clarksdale to Memphis.
Clarksdale, a town of about 17, 800 people, is well known to Blues fans as the home of the crossroads, where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil for skills with a guitar.
When Stewart leaves to continue creating his own sounds, Palmer goes south, to the Delta (and towns like Greenville, Clarksdale, and Bentonia), where the deepest blues were born in the shacks and juke joints of black sharecroppers.
The 34-year-old McMillian was running for mayor of Clarksdale, a Blues hub where actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman co-owns a music club with Howard Stovall, a Memphis entertainment executive, and Bill Luckett, who also is running for mayor.
The roads to Helena, Arkansas, and Clarksdale, Mississippi, two towns on opposite sides of the Mississippi that played big roles in the development of the blues, have been widened and slathered with new coats of asphalt to enable them to handle traffic heading to the casinos that have proliferated like kudzu along the riverbanks.
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