Hope Credit Union making a difference in rural Mississippi.

From Drew to Shaw to Moorhead to Itta Bena is a 64-mile counter-clockwise drive along an arc of the Mississippi Delta.

Most of the drive is through Sunflower County, birthplace of bluesman B.B. King and civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, and home to about 26,000 people—more than a third of them in poverty.

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Jim DuPlessis

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