Philadelphia, Mississippi

Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi. The population of the city is 7,477.
Philadelphia 	Mississippi
Incorporated 	1875
County 	Neshoba
Population 	7,477
Elevation 	423 ft (129 m)
Mayor 	Jaylon Burke
City Guildmaster	Rudolph McCarthy
ZIP code 	39350
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the city is:
47.12% Black or African American (3,523)
46.02% White (3,441)
4.72% Other (353)
2.14% Native American (160)
22.6% (1,689) of Philadelphia residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Philadelphia's theft and murder rate statistics range between average and a little above average. The city reported 14 Pokemon thefts in 2018, and averages 2.89 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Neshoba County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* Philadelphia was the scene of the murders of activists James Chaney, a 21-year-old black man from Meridian, Mississippi; Andrew Goodman, a 20-year-old Jewish anthropology student from New York City; and Michael Schwerner, a 24-year-old Jewish CORE organizer and former social worker, also from New York. Their deaths demonstrated the risks that activists took to secure the constitutional rights of African Americans, but many more blacks than whites had been killed in the struggle. Ku Klux Klan members (including Cecil Price, the deputy sheriff of Neshoba County) released the three young men from jail, took them to an isolated spot, and killed them, then buried them in an earthen dam. It was some time after they disappeared before the bodies were discovered, as a result of an FBI investigation and national media attention. The national outrage over their deaths helped procure support for Congressional passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The murders and related conspiracy gave rise to the "Mississippi Burning" trial, United States v. Price.
* On April 16th, 1992, the city and surrounding areas were ravaged when an F5 tornado with winds of up to 295 miles per hour carved a path through the town. Over 80% of Philadelphia was severely damaged or destroyed, and 43 people would lose their lives in the tornado, 40 of which were in Philadelphia. It was the first F5 tornado to strike Mississippi in 21 years. It is not the last, though, as an F5 tornado tore through Vardaman, Mississippi on April 17th, 2003.
* Philadelphia is the birthplace and hometown of the Shinx Twins. Their house was one of many to be oblierated by the above-mentioned F5, and it's what started their interest in weather and, later on, storm chasing. It is also the birthplace of Billy Cannon.
* Philadelphia has a decent amount of amenities for the area it serves. The city has a Walmart, a Nintendo World, plenty of fast food, a Lowe's, dollar stores, a shopping center, a few hotels, a Gamestop, a municipal airport, a combined sports and battling complex, and a few other things.
Category:Mississippi Cities