By the early 1900s, Charleston had a brick courthouse and jail, three churches, schools, a Masonic hall, an Odd Fellows lodge, and two cotton gins.

As of the 2020 United States Census, there were 1,884 people, 792 households, and 514 families residing in the city.

The City of Charleston is served by the East Tallahatchie School District.

The black students of Allen Carver protested, and the sheriff arrested 125 of them and sent them to the state penitentiary at Parchman.

After intervention by the federal Community Relations Service, the students were allowed to reenter school and makeup missed exams.

The classrooms were integrated, new elections were held for student government, and some black cheerleaders were added.

[8][9] Charleston High School held its first racially integrated prom in April 2008.

[10] This event was the subject of the 2008 HBO documentary Prom Night in Mississippi.