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This interesting encyclopedia article recounts the self-segregated community of Mound Bayou, Mississippi, which was founded as a place for blacks to find economic opportunity at a time of extreme racial violence in the South.
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economic opportunity for blacks, racial pride, racial violence, railroad center, self-segregation, vocational education, great migration, black past, encyclopedia of african american history, l,no, & t railroad, mississippi towns, mound bayou, yazoo delta, black colony in mississippi, rising segregation
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