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Greenwood, LA - History
We would like to provide the residents of Greenwood a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Greenwood Home page. The Greenwood Home page provides as much information as possible on Greenwood. Knowing Greenwood’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Greenwood’s Home page, you will also find Greenwood’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Greenwood has a population of 3155. 50.7% of Greenwood’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.3 are female. 54% of Greenwood is married and 80% own their own home. The Average Home price is $195,160, and the average rent is $755. Household median income in Greenwood is $55,034, and the individual median income is $34,152. Greenwood’s Ethnic is the following: White(57.1%), Black(38.1%), Multiple(4.7%), Hispanic(2.5%).
Greenwood was established by European Americans in 1839 after the forced Indian Removal of the Caddo people to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) west of the Mississippi River. During the American Civil War Battle of Mansfield in April 1864, Confederate wounded were treated at the historic Dunn House built in the 1840s.
It is now located next to the Greenwood Town Hall on Highway 80. Several other historic houses located in Greenwood, including the Trosper House, have been added to the National Register of Historic Places. As in the rest of Louisiana, most Black or African Americans were disenfranchised from the turn of the 20th century into the 1960s, and the state was dominated by white Democrats; Caddo Parish Sheriff J.
Howell Flournoy, who served a record 26 years in office from 1940 to 1966, was born in Greenwood in 1891 and was part of the political Flournoy dynasty.On March 3, 1964, Owen Dickson Adams (January 13, 1926 – April 18, 2017) of Greenwood and B. F. O'Neal, Jr., of Shreveport, later a state representative, were elected as Republicans to the historically Democratic-dominated Caddo Parish Commission.
It was then known as the police jury, equivalent to the county commission in other states. This was in a period of considerable cultural change as the Civil Rights movement was underway; the federal Civil Rights Act was passed later in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965. Blacks had been disenfranchised in Louisiana since the turn of the century, when passage of a new constitution included barriers to voter registration.
White Democrats then began to join the Republican Party. Adams served on the police jury until 1976; O'Neal until 1968, when Adams won his second term. He was the only Republican in Caddo Parish that year to win an election. An engineer with Spectra Energy, then known as Texas Eastern, Adams relocated to Houston, Texas.
On retirement, he returned to Greenwood and subsequently served twelve years as mayor and three terms on the city council. He died at the age of ninety-one and is interred at Forest Park West Cemetery in Shreveport.Earnest Lampkins (1928-2018), a native of Shreveport, earned a PhD and had a career as a music educator.
He taught music at all levels, becoming supervisor of music for Caddo Parish. He founded the Louisiana School of Professions. In 2004, Lampkins was elected as the first black mayor of Greenwood, where he had long been active in the community. Against running for a second term, Lampkins ceased any intentions due to gunshots fired into his house, alongside continued threats and racism.
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