The picture is a different Jericho, the one in Palestine that Joshua conquered in the Bible, and the one that calls itself the oldest city in the world. Apparently it it at least 11,000 years old. I thought it made a better picture.
What I find interesting about Jericho, Arkansas is that it was a town of 184 residents as of the 2000 census, of which 92.9% were African-American. I have seen places in urban areas with mostly black residents, but a little town with almost all black people is a surprise to me.
I have to note that I walked a long way this week, so at the beginning of the week I thought maybe I was going to stop a few miles earlier, in Turrell, Arkansas. When I did a little research into the town, I noticed it was 88.6% black, a town of 517 people.
When I posted about Hoxie, Arkansas two weeks ago, I noted that the town was 98.15% white, because I thought that looked unusual. The composition of the population in the three towns appears to be related in a way. A little more research shows that black people were not welcome in many Arkansas towns (and maybe still are not, though a bit more covertly), so I suppose they created their own towns, and that segregation remains, even if it is not enforced the way it once was.
So that's a little creepy.
This coming week I will pass 5,000,000 steps, leave Arkansas and enter Tennessee, and then leave Tennessee and enter Mississippi, as the whole trip through Tennessee is only about 20 miles.
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