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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.
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]
Hamer, born in 1917 in Mississippi, grew up in the midst of these conditions. The 20th and youngest child of sharecroppers, Hamer joined them in the plantation fields picking cotton at age six. [4] She attended school until age 12 when she left to work full time. After she married in 1944, she and her husband worked on a Mississippi plantation.
The Mississippi Mound Trail is a driving tour of 33 sites adjoining U.S. Route 61 where indigenous peoples of the Mississippi Delta built earthworks. [1] The mounds were primarily built between 500 and 1500 AD, [2] but are representative of a variety of cultures known as the Mound Builders. Each site has a historical marker and is accessible by ...
Rosedale native Jack Coleman and his wife Elizabeth are redeveloping their downtown with one major project.
In 1880, before the clearing of the forests began in earnest, only 16 percent of Delta farmers were sharecroppers. In 1910 that number passed 50 percent and a decade later would be 74 percent.
Greenwood is a city in and the county seat of Leflore County, Mississippi, United States, [4] located at the eastern edge of the Mississippi Delta region, approximately 96 miles north of the state capital, Jackson, and 130 miles south of the riverport of Memphis, Tennessee. It was a center of cotton planter culture in the 19th century.