Growing Disparity Between Progress, Cycle of Poverty
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal news editor Patsy Brumfield watched Tom Brokaw’s documentary program on Jackson Sunday night and pontificates on its portrait of the capital city: “The general conclusion of Brokaw’s report is that while most whites and well-educated blacks are doing pretty well across America, young and poorly educated blacks are not - that decades after passage of the Civil Rights Act, we find ourselves back in serious trouble racially.”