LeFleur's Bluff State Park LeFleur's Bluff State Park LeFleur's Bluff State Park is a public recreation area located on the banks of the Pearl River off Interstate 55 within the city limits of Jackson, Mississippi. The state park is home to a lake, a 9-hole golf course, and the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science. The park is named for the trading post established on the banks of the Pearl River in the late 18th century by Louis LeFleur, a French Canadian trader. The village of LeFleur's Bluff eventually grew to become the city of Jackson. The area which is now LeFleur's Bluff State Park
Joseph S. Clark's and Robert F. Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta poverty, hunger, and healthcare in the Mississippi. Joseph S. Clark's and Robert F. Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta Senator Joseph S. Clark's and Senator Robert F. Kennedy's tour of the Mississippi Delta occurred on April 10, 1967. At the behest of civil rights lawyer Marian Wright, Clark and Kennedy, together with two other Senators, traveled to Mississippi to investigate reports of extreme poverty and starvation. Following a field hearing, they drove from Greenville to Clarkesdale, stopping and touring impoverished communities as they went. Deeply disturbed by what they saw, the senators returned to Washington D.C. and began pushing for