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Down and Out In the Delta
Hathorn, Clay | July 9, 1990 issue

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For a region ground down by 150 years of racist economic and political decisions, uneven property distribution and overall neglect of human needs, the United States Congress in 1988 decided that the best hope was a commission, the Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission, which would draft a ten year economic plan to begin turning the region around by the century's close. Nearly a hundred people, came to read prepared statements about problems in their area, problems that face mainly poor black people at the meeting of members of a federal commission sent to save the Mississippi Delta region from its economic plight.

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GOVERNMENTAL investigations; AFRICAN Americans; RACISM; POOR; DELTA (Miss. : Region); MISSISSIPPI; UNITED States
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