Incarceration rates, Mississippi 2001
White: 399 per 100 000
Black: 1645 per 100 000
Latino: 516 per 100 000
prisonpolicy.org...
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Poverty rates, Mississippi 2002-03
White 14 %
Black 38 %
Hispanic 28 %
Other 17 %
statehealthfacts.org
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per capita income, Mississippi 1999
White $19,387
Black $10,042
Latino $12,549
epodunk.com
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population of Mississippi 2003
White: 60 %
Black: 37 %
Hispanic: 1 %
Other: 2 %
statehealthfacts.org
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ER Killen, convicted of manslaughter in 2005 for the 1964 killings of 3 civil rights workers by the KKK in Mississippi
bbc report
[ jun 2005 ]
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