YAZOO CITY, Miss. (WJTV) – The Oakes African American Culture is located in Yazoo City. The house is sometimes called the Oakes Mansion, and it is a grandiose house. The story of the house starts a decade before the Civil War when John Oakes, a free Black man in South Carolina, bought his wife, Mary, […]. Local Mississippi Breaking News Story from CBS 12 New WJTV, your Jackson, MS news leader