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‘The Tunica Miracle’ (access required)

by Nash Nunnery

Published: April 17,2011

Tags: poverty, Sugar Ditch Alley, Tunica County, Wilhelm Schulz GBBH manufacturing plant

The memories of Sugar Ditch Alley and the nation’s highest rate of poverty made infamous by a 1960s network television documentary have all but faded in Tunica County. An impoverished neighborhood in the Town of Tunica, Sugar Ditch Alley was so named for the open sewer located there. With the advent of the gaming industry nearly ...


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