Mississippi State Senator David Jordan photographed in Greenwood City Hall on June 18, 2014. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)The intersection of Main Street and Carrollton Avenue in Greenwood, Mississippi sen on June 19, 2014. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)Cotton was once Greenwood’s lifeblood. Bales of it sit on display at the Museum of the Mississippi Delta. Today, cotton crops are increasingly replaced by corn and soybeans. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)Dewitt Kimbley, 64, was born and raised in Greenwood, Miss., and runs a shoe repair business in the struggling downtown. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)The cemetery of the Little Zion Missionary Baptist Church is allegedly the final resting place of famed blues musician Robert Johnson. Hannah-Joneses’ great grandparents are buried there. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)Melvin Williams, 64, plays pool in Odessa's Place, a small one-room bar in the impoverished Baptist Town neighborhood of Greenwood. Odessa Nicks, 85, opened the bar in 1963 and has kept it going in old age so that she remains occupied. Williams pays $200 a month in rent to live in an apartment directly behind the bar. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)West Market Street in downtown Greenwood, Mississippi seen on June 19, 2014. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)Evonna Lucas stands for a portrait outside of her home on in south Greenwood. Lucas graduated from Mississippi Valley State University last year, but said that well-paying jobs for educated ***** people are hard to find in her hometown. (Edmund D. Fountain, special to ProPublica)
