U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

APPENDIX A
Mississippi Delta County Supervisors

 

 

Number of black supervisors

 

County

% black in 1990 

 1984 

 1985

 1986

 1987

 1988

 1989

 1990

 1991

 1993
Bolivar

63

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

Coahoma

65

 1

 1

 1

 1

 0

 1

 1

 1

 1

Holmes

76

 3

 3

 3

 3

 2

 3

 3

 3

 3

Humphreys

68

 1

 2

 3

 3

 3

 1

 3

 3

 3

Issaquena

56

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 2

 2

 2

 2

Leflore

61

 1

 1

 1

 3

 0

 1

 1

 1

 3

Quitman

59

 0

 0

 1

 1

 1

 2

 2

 2

 2

Sharkey

66

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 2

 1

 1

 2

Sunflower

64

 0

 0

 0

 0

 1

 1

 1

 1

 2

Tallahatchie

58

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

Tunica

75

 1

 1

 1

 1

 1

 2

 2

 2

 2

Washington

58

 0

 0

 0

 0

 0

 1

 1

 1

 2

Yazoo

53

 1

 1

 1

 2

 1

 2

 2

 2

 2

Source: Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Black Elected Officials: A National Roster, 1984 1993.
 
APPENDIX  B
Black Elected Officials on Municipal Governing Bodies in Mississippi

1974

61

1979

143

1984

163

1985

162

1986

200

1987

206

1988

222

1989

282

1990

294

1991

303

1993

302

Source: Frank Parker, Black Votes Count (Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1990); Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Black Elected Officials: A National Roster, 1984 1993.