Mississippi’s richest county uses police checkpoints to enforce segregation, lawsuit claims

Madison County, Mississippi, is among the most segregated places in America. Past court decisions have made note of its "racial isolation" and "confluence of…geography and demography."

Part of the reason the state's wealthiest county remains so divided, according to a new class-action lawsuit filed Monday, is that county leaders want it that way — and are willing to use local law enforcement to enforce an unofficial cordon around the county’s roughly 40,000 black residents....
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