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Sunflower County
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Sunflower County, Mississippi
PO Box 988
Indianola, MS 38751
Phone: (662) 887-4703
Fax: (662) 887-7054

In west-central MS, northeast of Greenville; organized Feb 15, 1844 from Bolivar County. Name Origin: For the Sunflower River, which runs through the county.

Area (sq mi): 707.22 (land 693.79; water 13.43). Pop per sq mi: 46.60.
Pop 2005: 32,311. State rank: 27. Pop change: 2000-20005 -6.00%; 1990-2000 4.60%. Pop 2000: 34,369 (White 28.50%; Black or African American 69.90%; Hispanic or Latino 1.30%; Asian 0.40%; Other 0.90%). Foreign born: 0.60%. Median age: 30.20.
Income 2000: per capita $11,365; median household $24,970; Pop below poverty level: 30.00%. *Personal per capita income 2000-2003: $15,670-$16,375.
Unemployment 2004: 9.10%. Change from 2000: -3.60%. Median travel time to work: 20.60 minutes. Working outside county of residence: 22.70%.

Cities with population over 10,000:
  • Indianola County seat (11,449)

  • See other counties in Mississippi.


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    Eastland (1904-1986), as set against the backdrop of social and economic change in Sunflower County, Mississippi, the birthplace of Hamer and the location of the Eastland cotton plantation.
    Let the People Decide: Black Freedom and White Resistance Movement in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986.
    The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the committee through which all judicial nominations would have to pass, was Senator James Eastland, a deplorable old racist planter from Sunflower County, Mississippi.
     
     
     
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