Clarksdale

[klahrks-deyl]

noun

1. a city in NW Mississippi.

Example Sentences

As Walter, 38, from Clarksdale, Mississippi, told us, “It’s a complicated time to be a white Southerner.”

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You may recognize its reference to what’s been called the nation’s original sin and its primacy in 1932 Clarksdale, Mississippi, where the story takes place.

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The juke joint in Clarksdale, Mississippi is one of the last of its kind in the region, a landmark for a bygone era of American music.

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Like other small towns in the US south, Clarksdale has faced struggles.

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The charge was led by Tyler Yarbrough, a Clarksdale native, who wrote a public letter to the director after seeing the movie in a nearby town.

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