Mississippi; Civil Rights Archives - Marketplace

How The Deck Is Stacked

Overcoming racial and economic struggle in Philadelphia, Mississippi

by Kai Ryssdal and Daisy Palacios

Jul 22, 2016

The DNC starts Monday in the other Philadelphia, but we've traveled far from the convention to find out about poverty in the South.

Philadelphia, Mississippi, is known as the fair city with the area’s biggest attractions: the Neshoba County Fair and the Choctaw Indian Fair.

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