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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.
Italians also settled in the Mississippi Delta. The first immigrants came there in the 1880s, working to repair levees and staying as hired farm laborers on plantations. Some of these families became peddlers selling goods to farmers. In 1895, the first Italians came to the Sunnyside Plantation, across the Mississippi River in the Arkansas ...
Deep Souths: Delta, Piedmont, and Sea Island Society in the Age of Segregation (2003) Hughes, Dudley J. Oil in the Deep South: A History of the Oil Business in Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, 1859–1945 (University Press of Mississippi, 1993). Key, V.O. Southern Politics in State and Nation (1951) classic political analysis, state by state.
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.
Ownby, Ted (1993). "The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity". The Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 52 (4): 461– 462. Tate, Roger D. (1994). "The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity". The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. 92 (1): 104 ...
Dallas was the harnessmaking capital of the world and a center of other manufacturing. As an example of its ambitions, in 1907 Dallas built the Praetorian Building, fifteen storeys tall and the first skyscraper west of the Mississippi, soon to be followed by other skyscrapers. [97]
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Gonzales Pioneer Village Living History Center; Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park, Dallas; Farmers Branch Historical Park, Farmers Branch; Frontier Village & Museum, Denison; Log Cabin Village, Fort Worth; Buffalo Gap Historic Village, Buffalo Gap; Jourdan-Bachman Pioneer Farms, Austin; Sauer Beckmann Farm, Stonewall; Vermont. Shelburne ...