Word: tunica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...filthy rags, beggar's bowls or the lineaments of despair. Harlem's broad avenues?clean by Calcutta's standards?bop to the stride of lively men and women in multihued clothing; the tawdry tenements of Chicago's South Side are forested with TV antennas. Even in Mississippi's Tunica County, one of the poorest in the nation, where according to the latest census eight out of every ten families live below the poverty line, 37% of the households own washing machines, 48% own cars, and 52% own television sets. In the Los Angeles district of Watts, California's most notorious...