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Sisk, Glenn S. "Crime and Justice in the Alabama Black Belt, 1875-1917." Mid-America 40 (1958): 106–113. Tullos, Allen. "The Black Belt." Southern Spaces (April 19, 2004) Online. Vance, Rupert B. Human factors in cotton culture; a study in the social geography of the American South (U of North Carolina Press, 1929) online free
Bible Belt, any collection of states more specifically in the American South where evangelical and fundamentalist Protestantism are prevalent; Black Belt in the American South, the social history and politics, especially concerning slavery and black workers, of the geological region known as the Black Belt
The Black Belt has since become better known as a sociocultural region; in this context it is a term used for much of the Cotton Belt, which had a high percentage of African-American slave labor. The Mississippi Delta has been called " The Most Southern Place on Earth ", because of its unique racial, cultural, and economic history.
Black Belt in the American South; A. Adams County, Mississippi ... Bertie County, North Carolina; Bibb County, Georgia; Black Belt (region of Alabama) Bolivar County ...
Of course, it wasn’t until a bill drafted by State Sen. Darrell Jackson finally passed the General Assembly in March 2012, that the Palmetto State finally officially recognized African American ...
This list of majority-Black counties in the United States covers the counties and county-equivalents in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the territory of United States Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the population in each county that is Black or African American.
Black Belt in the American South, a region of highly fertile black soil in the American South that was the center of slavery, and continues to have a large black population into the 21st century; Black Belt (geological formation), geological formation of dark fertile soil in the Southern United States
Earlier this year, as she and her spouse piled into their Hyundai Tucson and prepared to travel the American South seeking answers about the ancestors she knew had been enslaved, Michelle Johnson ...