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Indianola, Mississippi

Index Indianola, Mississippi

Indianola is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States, in the Mississippi Delta. [1]

104 relations: A. Maceo Walker, Albert King, Alfred A. Knopf, AllMusic, Area code 662, B.B. King, B.B. King Museum, Beulah Bettersworth, Bill L. Harbert, Bill Triplett, Brew Moore, Brown v. Board of Education, Caste, Census, Central Time Zone, Charley Patton, Choctaw, Citizens' Councils, City, Coolidge Ball, County seat, Craig Claiborne, Deep South, Ellis Wyms, Federal Information Processing Standards, Gene Roberts (journalist), Gentry High School (Mississippi), Geographic Names Information System, Google Books, Greenwood, Mississippi, Guinness World Records, Hank Klibanoff, Henry Sloan, History of the San Diego Chargers, Hortense Powdermaker, Howard McCalebb, Humid subtropical climate, Indianola Academy, Indianola Historic District, Indianola Mississippi Seeds, Indianola Municipal Airport, Indianola School District, James K. Vardaman, Jazz Gillum, John Grisham, Joseph Edison Walker, Köppen climate classification, Let the People Decide, List of counties in Mississippi, List of sovereign states, ..., Little Arthur Duncan, Lucky Cow, Marriage, Mary Alice, Micheal Spurlock, Minnie M. Cox, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi Department of Corrections, National Association of Broadcasters, National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi, Per capita income, Population density, Poverty threshold, Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, Racism, Restoration Ministries Christian Academy, Robert B. Patterson, Sam Lacey, Section of Painting and Sculpture, Segregation academy, Social class, Steve Rosenthal, Steve Yarbrough (writer), Sunflower County Consolidated School District, Sunflower County, Mississippi, Supreme Court of the United States, The Atlantic, The Chamber (1996 film), The Chamber (novel), The Enterprise-Tocsin, The Green Mile (novel), The Greenwood Commonwealth, The New York Times, The Race Beat, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Theodore Roosevelt, Tyrone Washington, U.S. Route 49, U.S. Route 82, U.S. state, Unincorporated area, United States Census Bureau, United States Department of the Treasury, United States Postal Service, University of Mississippi, University of North Carolina Press, Walter Inglis Anderson, WDAM-TV, William Harold Cox, Works Progress Administration, ZIP Code, 2010 United States Census. Expand index (54 more) »

A. Maceo Walker

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Albert King

Albert Nelson (April 25, 1923 – December 21, 1992), known by his stage name Albert King, was an American blues guitarist and singer whose playing influenced many other blues guitarists.

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Alfred A. Knopf

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. is a New York publishing house that was founded by Alfred A. Knopf Sr. and Blanche Knopf in 1915.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Area code 662

Area code 662 is the telephone area code serving the northern half of Mississippi, including the 6 counties (Benton, Coahoma, Desoto, Marshall, Tate and Tunica) that are part of the Memphis metro area.

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B.B. King

Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer, electric guitarist, songwriter, and record producer.

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B.B. King Museum

The B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center is a Delta blues museum with the mission to "empower, unite and heal through music, art and education and share with the world the rich cultural heritage of the Mississippi Delta.", web site.

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Beulah Bettersworth

Beulah Bettersworth (1894–1968) was an artist and muralist in the early 20th century.

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Bill L. Harbert

Bill Lebold Harbert (July 21, 1923 – June 27, 2010) was an American businessman and founder of the international construction firm B.L. Harbert International.

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Bill Triplett

William Clarence Triplett (born May 9, 1940) is a former American football running back.

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Brew Moore

Milton Aubrey "Brew" Moore (March 26, 1924 – August 19, 1973), was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

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Brown v. Board of Education

Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students to be unconstitutional.

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Caste

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a lifestyle which often includes an occupation, status in a hierarchy, customary social interaction, and exclusion.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population.

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Central Time Zone

The North American Central Time Zone (CT) is a time zone in parts of Canada, the United States, Mexico, Central America, some Caribbean Islands, and part of the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

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Charley Patton

Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician.

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Choctaw

The Choctaw (in the Choctaw language, Chahta)Common misspellings and variations in other languages include Chacta, Tchakta and Chocktaw.

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Citizens' Councils

The Citizens' Councils (also referred to as White Citizens' Councils) were an associated network of white supremacist, extreme right, organizations in the United States, concentrated in the South.

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City

A city is a large human settlement.

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Coolidge Ball

Coolidge Ball, born in Indianola, Mississippi, was the first African American athlete to play any sport at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford, Mississippi.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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Craig Claiborne

Craig Claiborne (September 4, 1920 January 22, 2000) was an American restaurant critic, food journalist and book author.

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Deep South

The Deep South is a cultural and geographic subregion in the Southern United States.

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Ellis Wyms

Ellis Rashad Wyms (born April 12, 1979) a former American football defensive tackle.

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Federal Information Processing Standards

Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) are publicly announced standards developed by the United States federal government for use in computer systems by non-military government agencies and government contractors.

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Gene Roberts (journalist)

Eugene Leslie "Gene" Roberts, Jr. (born June 15, 1932) is an American journalist and professor of journalism.

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Gentry High School (Mississippi)

Gentry High School is a public secondary school in Indianola, Mississippi, part of Sunflower County.

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Geographic Names Information System

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) is a database that contains name and locative information about more than two million physical and cultural features located throughout the United States of America and its territories.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search and Google Print and by its codename Project Ocean) is a service from Google Inc. that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Greenwood, Mississippi

Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, Mississippi, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 2000 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Hank Klibanoff

Hank Klibanoff (born March 26, 1949 in Florence, Alabama) is an American journalist, now a professor at Emory University.

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Henry Sloan

Henry Sloan (January 1870 – possibly March 13, 1948) was an African American musician, one of the earliest figures in the history of Delta Blues.

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History of the San Diego Chargers

The professional American football team now known as the Los Angeles Chargers previously played in San Diego, California as the San Diego Chargers from 1961 to 2017 before relocating back to Los Angeles where the team played their inaugural 1960 season.

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Hortense Powdermaker

Hortense Powdermaker (December 24, 1900 – June 16, 1970) was an American anthropologist best known for her ethnographic studies of African Americans in rural America and of Hollywood.

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Howard McCalebb

Howard McCalebb (b. Indianola, Mississippi, May 13, 1947) is an African-American abstract sculptor.

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Humid subtropical climate

A humid subtropical climate is a zone of climate characterized by hot and humid summers, and mild to cool winters.

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Indianola Academy

The Indianola Academy is a K-12 private school in Indianola, Mississippi.

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Indianola Historic District

Indianola Historic District is a historic district in Indianola, Mississippi.

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Indianola Mississippi Seeds

Indianola Mississippi Seeds is B. B. King's eighteenth studio album.

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Indianola Municipal Airport

Indianola Municipal Airport is a public use airport in Sunflower County, Mississippi, United States.

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Indianola School District

The Indianola School District is a former public school district based in Indianola, Mississippi (USA).

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James K. Vardaman

James Kimble Vardaman (July 26, 1861 – June 25, 1930) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Mississippi and was the Governor of Mississippi from 1904 to 1908.

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Jazz Gillum

William McKinley "Jazz" Gillum (September 11, 1902 or 1904 – March 29, 1966) was an American blues harmonica player.

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John Grisham

John Ray Grisham Jr. (born February 8, 1955).

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Joseph Edison Walker

Joseph Edison Walker (March 31, 1879 – July 28, 1958) was a leading African American physician, businessman and religious leader.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Let the People Decide

Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945–1986 is a 2004 book written by J. Todd Moye and published by the University of North Carolina Press.

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List of counties in Mississippi

There are 82 counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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List of sovereign states

This list of sovereign states provides an overview of sovereign states around the world, with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty.

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Little Arthur Duncan

Little Arthur Duncan (February 5, 1934 – August 20, 2008) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues harmonica player, singer, and songwriter.

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Lucky Cow

Lucky Cow is a syndicated comic strip created by Mark Pett and distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a socially or ritually recognised union between spouses that establishes rights and obligations between those spouses, as well as between them and any resulting biological or adopted children and affinity (in-laws and other family through marriage).

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Mary Alice

Mary Alice Smith (born December 3, 1941), known professionally as Mary Alice, is an American film, television, and stage actress.

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Micheal Spurlock

Micheal Curtis Spurlock (born January 31, 1983) is an American football wide receiver who is currently a free agent.

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Minnie M. Cox

Minnie M. (Geddings) Cox (1869–1933) was an American teacher who was the first African-American woman to serve as a postmaster in the United States.

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Mississippi

Mississippi is a state in the Southern United States, with part of its southern border formed by the Gulf of Mexico.

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Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and small portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers.

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Mississippi Department of Corrections

The Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) is a state agency of Mississippi that operates prisons.

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National Association of Broadcasters

The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) is a trade association and lobby group representing the interests of commercial and non-commercial over-the-air radio and television broadcasters in the United States.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Mississippi

This is a list of properties and districts in Mississippi that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Per capita income

Per capita income or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock and standing crop) is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume; it is a quantity of type number density.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States Census

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, defined by the federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the United States Census Bureau, are self-identification data items in which residents choose the race or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin (the only categories for ethnicity).

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Racism

Racism is the belief in the superiority of one race over another, which often results in discrimination and prejudice towards people based on their race or ethnicity.

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Restoration Ministries Christian Academy

Restoration Ministries Christian Academy (RMCA) is a private K-12 Christian school located in Indianola, Mississippi.

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Robert B. Patterson

Robert Boyd "Tut" Patterson (December 13, 1921 – September 21, 2017) was an American plantation manager and former college football star who is known for founding the first Citizens' Councils, a white supremacist organization, established in Indianola, Mississippi in 1954, in response to the Brown v. Board of Education decision.

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Sam Lacey

Samuel Lacey (March 8, 1948 – March 14, 2014) was an American basketball player.

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Section of Painting and Sculpture

The Treasury Section of Painting and Sculpture (later known as the Section of Fine Arts), commonly known as the Section, was established in 1934 and administered by the Procurement Division of the United States Department of the Treasury.

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Segregation academy

Segregation academies were private schools in the Southern United States founded in the mid-20th century by white parents to avoid having their children in desegregated public schools.

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Social class

A social class is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, the most common being the upper, middle and lower classes.

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Steve Rosenthal

Steven "Steve" Rosenthal is an American labor and political strategist.

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Steve Yarbrough (writer)

Steve Yarbrough (born August 29, 1956) is an American author and academic, who teaches at Emerson College.

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Sunflower County Consolidated School District

The Sunflower County Consolidated School District (SCCSD), formerly the Sunflower County School District (SCSD), is a public school district with its headquarters in Indianola, Mississippi in the Mississippi Delta.

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Sunflower County, Mississippi

Sunflower County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Atlantic

The Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher, founded in 1857 as The Atlantic Monthly in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The Chamber (1996 film)

The Chamber is a 1996 crime thriller film based on John Grisham's novel of the same name.

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The Chamber (novel)

The Chamber (1994) is a legal thriller written by American author John Grisham.

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The Enterprise-Tocsin

The Enterprise-Tocsin is a newspaper in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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The Green Mile (novel)

The Green Mile is a 1996 serial novel by American writer Stephen King.

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The Greenwood Commonwealth

The Greenwood Commonwealth is a newspaper in Mississippi, serving Greenwood.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Race Beat

The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book written in 2006 by journalists Gene Roberts and Hank Klibanoff.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal is a U.S. business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919) was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

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Tyrone Washington

Tyrone Lamar Washington (born September 16, 1976) is a former American professional basketball player.

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U.S. Route 49

U.S. Route 49 is a north–south United States highway.

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U.S. Route 82

U.S. Route 82 is an east–west United States highway in the Southern United States.

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U.S. state

A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.

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Unincorporated area

In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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United States Department of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury (USDT) is an executive department and the treasury of the United States federal government.

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United States Postal Service

The United States Postal Service (USPS; also known as the Post Office, U.S. Mail, or Postal Service) is an independent agency of the United States federal government responsible for providing postal service in the United States, including its insular areas and associated states.

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University of Mississippi

The University of Mississippi (colloquially known as Ole Miss) is an American public research university located in Oxford, Mississippi.

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University of North Carolina Press

The University of North Carolina Press (or UNC Press), founded in 1922, is a university press that is part of the University of North Carolina.

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Walter Inglis Anderson

Walter Inglis Anderson (September 29, 1903 – November 30, 1965) was an American painter and writer.

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WDAM-TV

WDAM-TV is a dual NBC/ABC-affiliated television station serving Hattiesburg, Mississippi, United States that is licensed to Laurel.

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William Harold Cox

William Harold Cox (June 23, 1901 – February 25, 1988) was a United States federal judge.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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ZIP Code

ZIP Codes are a system of postal codes used by the United States Postal Service (USPS) since 1963.

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2010 United States Census

The 2010 United States Census (commonly referred to as the 2010 Census) is the twenty-third and most recent United States national census.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianola,_Mississippi

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