1971 SPECIAL REPORT: "MEMPHIS..LIVING IN BLACK POVERTY"

In 1970, two years after King was killed and the first year the U.S. Census Bureau started collecting poverty data, 42 percent of Black people in Shelby County, where Memphis is located, lived below the poverty line. Since then, the poverty rate for Black people in the county has hovered around 30 percent. #memphis

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