Editing Shubuta, Mississippi (section)

===Voter suppression and Great Migration===
At the end of the 19th and early 20th centuries, Mississippi [[Disfranchisement|disenfranchised most black voters]] through passing a new constitution that raised barriers to voter registration. In Shubuta whites had also suppressed black voting by destroying ballots, imposing poll tests such as correctly guessing the number of jellybeans in a jar, and intimidation by the Ku Klux Klan.<ref name="JAL" /> Following the 1918 lynchings, many black workers left Clarke County, leaving cotton to rot in the fields. The town's population dropped by 21% (See table below) and the county population dropped 17% from 1910 to 1920. (See Demographics, [[Clarke County, Mississippi]])

The first wave of the [[Great Migration (African American)|Great Migration]] from the rural South continued to the Second World War. In the 1930s, a number of African-American residents from the Shubata area followed Reverend Louis W. Parson to [[Albany, New York]] to escape the violence and in a search for industrial jobs and better opportunities.<ref name="JAL">Jennifer A. Lemak, ''Southern Life, Northern City, The History of Albany's Rapp Road Community'', Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2008</ref> They created a community to the west of the city, building houses along Rapp Road within what was one land parcel purchased by Parson. Now known as the [[Rapp Road Community Historic District]], the area is listed on the [[NRHP]].