Nathan Chapman

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Once blacks were able to vote in the Delta, they started to win public office, because they outnumbered whites three-to-one, and these days most teachers, principals, school administrators, judges, police officers, mayors, and city and county employees in the Delta were African-American. It was an unusual situation: whites still had the wealth, but blacks held the political power.
Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta
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