paragraph_text: Top Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population and the highest percentages of Blacks or African - Americans, alone or with other races City Total Population Black or African American, alone or with other races Black or African American, alone Mixed - race Black / African - American Rank Percentage of total population Rank Percentage of total population Rank Percentage of total population Detroit, MI 713,777 84.3 82.7 83 1.6 Jackson, MS 173,514 80.1 79.4 242 0.7 Miami Gardens, FL 107,167 77.9 76.3 91 1.6 Birmingham, AL 212,237 74.0 73.4 257 0.6 Baltimore, MD 620,961 5 65.1 5 63.7 134 1.3 Memphis, TN 646,889 6 64.1 6 63.3 225 0.8 New Orleans, LA 343,831 7 61.2 7 60.2 184 1.0 Flint, MI 102,434 8 59.5 9 56.6 9 2.9 Montgomery, AL 205,764 9 57.4 8 56.6 231 0.8 Savannah, GA 136,286 10 56.7 10 55.4 139 1.3

paragraph_text: SNCC had undertaken an ambitious voter registration program in Selma, Alabama, in 1963, but by 1965 little headway had been made in the face of opposition from Selma's sheriff, Jim Clark. After local residents asked the SCLC for assistance, King came to Selma to lead several marches, at which he was arrested along with 250 other demonstrators. The marchers continued to meet violent resistance from police. Jimmie Lee Jackson, a resident of nearby Marion, was killed by police at a later march in February 17, 1965. Jackson's death prompted James Bevel, director of the Selma Movement, to initiate and organize a plan to march from Selma to Montgomery, the state capital.

paragraph_text: The Beverly Hillbillies is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from September 26, 1962 to March 23, 1971. Originally filmed in black and white for the first three seasons (1962 - 1965), the first color - filmed episode (``Admiral Jed Clampett '') was aired on September 15, 1965, and all subsequent episodes from 1965 to 1971 were filmed in color. During its nine - season run, 274 episodes aired -- 106 in black - and - white, 168 in color. In its first two seasons, The Beverly Hillbillies was the # 1 television program.

paragraph_text: Arley is a town in Winston County, Alabama, United States. It incorporated on December 18, 1965. At the 2010 census the population was 357, up from 290 in 2000.

paragraph_text: Black Earth is a village in Dane County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,338 at the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Black Earth. It is part of the Madison Metropolitan Statistical Area.

paragraph_text: Steele was educated at King's College, Cambridge (BA) and Yale University (MA). He took part as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer (1964) helping enable black American voter registration, and was on the second abortive march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965.

paragraph_text: Black Wolf is a town in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,410 at the 2010 census. The unincorporated communities of Black Wolf, Black Wolf Point, Decorah Beach, Little Point, Paukotuk, and Point Comfort are located in the town.

paragraph_text: Christene Browne (born 1965 in Saint Kitts) is the first black woman to write, produce and direct a feature film in Canada.

paragraph_text: Puerto Rico has been discussed as a potential 51st state of the United States. In a 2012 status referendum a majority of voters, 54%, expressed dissatisfaction with the current political relationship. In a separate question, 61% of voters supported statehood (excluding the 26% of voters who left this question blank). On December 11, 2012, Puerto Rico's legislature resolved to request that the President and the U.S. Congress act on the results, end the current form of territorial status and begin the process of admitting Puerto Rico to the Union as a state.

paragraph_text: Major General Juan César Cordero Dávila (June 7, 1904 – July 20, 1965), was the commanding officer of the 65th Infantry Regiment during the Korean War, rising to become one of the highest ranking ethnic officers in the United States Army.

paragraph_text: The mayor of Paris is elected indirectly by Paris voters; the voters of each arrondissement elect the Conseil de Paris (Council of Paris), composed of 163 members. Each arrondissement has a number of members depending upon its population, from 10 members for each of the least-populated arrondissements (1st through 9th) to 36 members for the most populated (the 15th). The elected council members select the mayor. Sometimes the candidate who receives the most votes city-wide is not selected if the other candidate has won the support of the majority of council members. Mayor Bertrand Delanoë (2001-2014) was elected by only a minority of city voters, but a majority of council members. Once elected, the council plays a largely passive role in the city government; it meets only once a month. The current council is divided between a coalition of the left of 91 members, including the socialists, communists, greens, and extreme left; and 71 members for the centre right, plus a few members from smaller parties.

paragraph_text: Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd largest and 34th-most populous of the 50 United States. Mississippi is bordered to north by Tennessee, to the east by Alabama, to the south by the Gulf of Mexico, to the southwest by Louisiana, and to the northwest by Arkansas.  Mississippi's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River.  Jackson is both the state's capital and largest city.  Greater Jackson, with an estimated population of 580,166 in 2018, is the most populous metropolitan area in Mississippi and the 95th-most populous in the United States.

paragraph_text: In 1899 the state legislature passed a new constitution, with requirements for poll taxes and literacy tests for voter registration which disfranchised most black Americans in the state. Exclusion from voting had wide effects: it meant that black Americans could not serve on juries or in any local office. After a decade of white supremacy, many people forgot that North Carolina had ever had thriving middle-class black Americans. Black citizens had no political voice in the state until after the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Voting Rights Act of 1965 were passed to enforce their constitutional rights. It was not until 1992 that another African American was elected as a US Representative from North Carolina.

paragraph_text: Within months of the bill's passage, 250,000 new black voters had been registered, one-third of them by federal examiners. Within four years, voter registration in the South had more than doubled. In 1965, Mississippi had the highest black voter turnout at 74% and led the nation in the number of black public officials elected. In 1969, Tennessee had a 92.1% turnout among black voters; Arkansas, 77.9%; and Texas, 73.1%.

paragraph_text: Ten cities with 100,000 or more total population and the highest number of Blacks or African Americans City Total population Black or African American, alone or mixed with other races Black or African American, alone Mixed - race Black / African - American Rank Number Rank Number Rank Number New York, NY 8,175,133 2,228,145 2,088,510 139,635 Chicago, IL 2,695,598 913,009 887,608 25,401 Philadelphia, PA 1,526,006 686,870 661,839 25,031 Detroit, MI 713,777 601,988 590,226 13 11,762 Houston, TX 2,099,451 5 594,217 5 498,466 8 11,751 Memphis, TN 646,889 6 414,928 6 409,687 58 5,241 Baltimore, MD 620,961 7 403,998 7 395,781 29 8,217 Los Angeles, CA 3,792,621 8 402,448 8 365,118 37,330 Washington, DC 601,723 9 314,352 9 305,125 22 9,227 Dallas, TX 1,197,816 10 308,087 10 298,993 23 9,094

paragraph_text: The Voter Vault is a database of voters in the United States used by the Republican Party. Construction started in the 1990s, and it was first used in 2002. By 2004 it had about 168 million entries. The Democratic Party equivalent database is Demzilla.

paragraph_text: Though Brazilians of at least partial African heritage make up a large percentage of the population, few blacks have been elected as politicians. The city of Salvador, Bahia, for instance, is 80% people of color, but voters have not elected a mayor of color. Journalists like to say that US cities with black majorities, such as Detroit and New Orleans, have not elected white mayors since after the civil rights movement, when the Voting Rights Act of 1965 protected the franchise for minorities, and blacks in the South regained the power to vote for the first time since the turn of the 20th century. New Orleans elected its first black mayor in the 1970s. New Orleans elected a white mayor after the widescale disruption and damage of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

paragraph_text: Estonia has pursued the development of the e-state and e-government. Internet voting is used in elections in Estonia. The first internet voting took place in the 2005 local elections and the first in a parliamentary election was made available for the 2007 elections, in which 30,275 individuals voted over the internet. Voters have a chance to invalidate their electronic vote in traditional elections, if they wish to. In 2009 in its eighth Worldwide Press Freedom Index, Reporters Without Borders ranked Estonia sixth out of 175 countries. In the first ever State of World Liberty Index report, Estonia was ranked first out of 159 countries.

paragraph_text: Blackstone, formerly named Blacks and White, and Bellefonte, is a town in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. The population was 3,675 at the 2000 census.

paragraph_text: Uniopolis is an unincorporated community and former village in Auglaize County, Ohio, United States. The population was 222 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Wapakoneta, Ohio Micropolitan Statistical Area. In 2013, voters chose to disincorporate Uniopolis into Union Township.

Question: What rank is the state with the most black voters in 1965 in population?
Answer: 34th