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LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE annual income of black families being $595. The average adult had completed 6.4 years of schoo! with black adults averaging 4.3 three years of education. * 2. Sunflower County: Sunflower County is comprised of 693 square miles, all in the fertile Mississippi Delta area. It is approximately fifty miles long, running north and south, eighteen miles wide for one-half iis length and fifteen miles wide for the other half. In 1950 Sunflower County had a population of 56,03 1, with sixty-eight percent of the population being non- white, of which 8,949 were of voting age and 114 were registered to vote. Indianola, the county seat, had a population of 4,369 in 1955. The town of Drew is located approximately thirty miles north of Indianola and, in 195 0, had a population of 1,681 persons. The majority of the working population, sixty-seven percent, was employed in the agricultural sector, and one percent of the working population was employed in manufacturing jobs. The median annual per capita individual income at the time was $744, with the average annual income of black families being $544. The average adult had completed 5.7 years of school, with black adults averaging 4.) years of education. In the eight years following the Brown v. The Board of Education decision in 1954, only four Sunflower County black citizens were registered to vote.” ®’ Sunflower County was the home of United States Senator James O. Eastland, a staunch segregationist who was in office during 1955, and who owned a plantation near the town of. Doddsville, eleven miles south of Drew. Additionally, the first Citizens’ Council, a segregationist > United States Bureau of Census, /950 Census of the Population, Volume {I, Characteristics of the Population, Part 24, Mississippi. * United States Commission on Civil Rights, Report of the United States Commission on Civil Rights 1959, 60 > United States Bureau of Census, 1950 Census of the Population, Volume II, Characteristics of the Population, Part 24, Mississippi ® Ler the People Decide, Black Freedom and White Resistance Movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945 - /986, J. Todd Moye, 2004, 226 ” United States Commission on Civil Rights, Report of the Unitéd States Commission on Civil Rights | 959, 60 il LAW ENFORCEMENT SENSITIVE This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. {t is the property of the FBI and is foaned to your agency, it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. a ee EEE EEEEIEENEEEEEEEEEEEEESSEEReEE!