Steele is a city located in Pemiscot County, Missouri. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,263.
Steele is located at 36°5'8" North, 89°49'46" West (36.085428, -89.829426).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 4.9 km2 (1.9 mi2). 4.9 km2 (1.9 mi2) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.
As of the census of 2000, there are 2,263 people, 887 households, and 582 families residing in the city. The population density is 464.8/km2 (1,205.9/mi2). There are 971 housing units at an average density of 199.4/km2 (517.4/mi2). The racial makeup of the city is 80.87% White, 17.41% African American, 0.04% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.93% from other races, and 0.75% from two or more races. 1.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
There are 887 households out of which 31.8% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 43.6% are married couples living together, 17.1% have a female householder with no husband present, and 34.3% are non-families. 30.7% of all households are made up of individuals and 15.6% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.49 and the average family size is 3.11.
In the city the population is spread out with 29.7% under the age of 18, 8.8% from 18 to 24, 23.8% from 25 to 44, 21.8% from 45 to 64, and 16.0% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 34 years. For every 100 females there are 84.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 79.0 males.
The median income for a household in the city is $20,958, and the median income for a family is $29,125. Males have a median income of $30,595 versus $19,286 for females. The per capita income for the city is $13,695. 31.3% of the population and 25.5% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 39.6% of those under the age of 18 and 26.0% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
On September 11, 1934, four African American members of the Pacific Movement of the Eastern World (PMEW) were put on trial for unlawful and riotous assembly in an attempt to "unite the Negro race in one body with the Japanese race and all dark races of the Far East to overthrow the present system of government and to make the white race subservient to the Negro race and to set up a government by the Negroes and the people fo the Far East". They arrested following disquiet by African American preachers and European American cotton plantation owners. Whilst the defenders pleaded innocence, blaming the Original Independent Benevolent Afro-Pacific Movement of the World, a splinter group from the PMEW, for any unrest, the prosecutor was openly racist, suggesting that the four had no business to be driving around in a high powered chrysler car. The four were sentenced to one year in jail. Before sentencing, however the judge and constable, stepped outside to alow a mob of two hundred white spectators to invade the building and beat the defendants. Their lawyer fled to Cape Girardeau, ninety miles away. The NAACP provided lawyers is St Louis, who filed a case of Habeas corpus. The case was heard before the Missouri Supreme Court in Jefferson City, which quashed the sentences saying that no legal trial had taken place.
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SteeleMissouri.com
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