SUBSIDIZED

Mound Bayou painted its own name on its own brick. The federal caption credited the town to a railroad company. A second federal document, filed in 1975, credited it to the man who chose the ground.

A government photograph of an all-Black town, and the sentence filed underneath it that hands the founding to a railroad

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