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Unincorporated community in Mississippi, United States
Cowart
is an
unincorporated community
located in
Tallahatchie County
,
Mississippi
. Cowart is located on
Mississippi Highway 32
approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) north of
Tippo
and approximately 8 miles (13 km) west of
Charleston
.
The county's former sheriff Clarence Strider—a witness for the defense at the
Emmett Till
murder trial—narrowly missed being shot in the head while he sat in his car at a general store in Cowart in 1957.
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