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The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Cosby, A.G. et al. A Social and Economic Portrait of the Mississippi Delta (1992) online (Alternate, Archive) Currie, James T. Enclave: Vicksburg and Her Plantations, 1863-1870. 1980. Dollard, John.
The Theodore Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge Complex is the largest refuge complex in the state of Mississippi. [1] Over 100,000 acres (400 km 2) of refuge lands on seven refuges, including 13,000 acres (53 km 2) of refuge-managed Farmers Home Administration lands, provide vital habitat for fish and wildlife in the Delta region.
In the Mississippi Delta where Hamer founded her project, African American farmers lost approximately 12 million acres of land– six million of which was between 1950 and 1964, shortly before Hamer began the farm.
A map showing approximate areas of various Mississippian and related cultures (c. 800-1500 CE) This is a list of Mississippian sites. The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, inland-Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally. [1]
L.V. Jackson, a retired farmer, and his brother-in-law James Melvin Johnson Sr. pose for a portrait on a part of Johnson’s 40 acres of farmland in Jackson, Tenn., on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023.
The Steed-Kisker culture primarily exists near present-day Kansas City, Missouri, [1] from about 900 to 1400 CE. From about 1000 to 1250, they are believed to have originally been made up of a group of farmers who migrated from the Cahokia region east of the Mississippi River. As they adapted to local conditions and materials, they made changes ...
The farmers claim UMB Bank knew Express Grain was teetering on financial collapse and propped the company up until it could fill its grain silos. Delta farmers file suit after Missouri bank seizes ...
A federal judge on Monday approved a $4.6 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit brought by residents of a Kansas City, Kansas, apartment building for seniors with low incomes, cited for ...