In the mid-20th century, Mississippi was a battleground of the civil rights movement as, like other states of the South, it had long disfranchised blacks and subjected them to racial segregation and Jim Crow laws. Main article: Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner State of Mississippi roadside marker denoting the location where the 1964 murders of American civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner took place These range from the large ceremonial Indian mound and cave at Nanih Waiya, built approximately 1700 years ago and sacred to the Choctaw to the still thriving Williams Brothers Store, a true old-fashioned general store founded in 1907 and featured in National Geographic in 1937 as a source of anything from 'horse collars to straw hats.' Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner The history of the town and its influences- social, political and economic- can be seen in the many points of interest within and beyond the city limits. Philadelphia is incorporated as a municipality it was given its current name, after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1903, two years before the railroad brought new opportunities and prosperity to the town.

The population was 7,118 at the 2020 census.

Philadelphia is a city in and the county seat of Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States.

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