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Founded in 1848, Clarksdale, Mississippi, soon earned the title âthe Golden Buckle on the Cotton Beltâ, a place where enslaved Africans and their descendants picked cotton by the tonne. But mechanisation in the 1960s changed things. Today, the small cityâs median household income is $35,210, with 40% of the populace living below the poverty line. And 80% of Clarksdaleâs 14,400 residents areâŠ












