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Mississippi Action for Community Education Inc. is a nonprofit minority rural development organization created by communityleaders in 1967 to stimulate physical social and economic developmentin the rural Mississippi Delta. Very early in its history MACE learnedthat beyond the problems of race and poverty there exists in southernrural communities the broader structural problem of underdevelopment that for genuine community development to occur the prerequisite human and organizational capacities must first be developed the basic community social and political structures must first be created. Join Our Mailing List .