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Opinion: Jackson water crisis shows Nina Simone is still right about Mississippi CNN 3/14/2021 Opinion by Keri Leigh Merritt © Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images A brother and sister sit while their mother volunteers at a water and food distribution drive in Jackson, Mississippi after the city was hit by back-to-back winter storms. Summoned to the South by Marian Wright of the NAACP, Senators Robert F. Kennedy and Joseph Clark traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the Spring of 1967 to assess the effectiveness of the federal War on Poverty programs. Wright had testified before Congress that the people of her state were starving and in agony. Although forewarned, the White senators were stunned to witness the extremities of Mississippi s soul-crushing poverty, right in the middle of one of the wealthiest nations on earth.

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