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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.
Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area is a federally designated National Heritage Area that seeks to preserve and promote the landscape, culture and history of the Mississippi Delta in the northwestern portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
Black cotton pickers in the Mississippi Delta c. 1966 In 1967, the majority of legislative programs supporting the United States government's " War on Poverty " were due to expire. In an attempt to generate national interest in renewing funding for the effort, the United States Senate Committee on Labor 's Subcommittee on Poverty held a series ...
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 ...
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.
In some areas, many whites returned to the land to farm for a while. Some freedpeople left the South altogether for states such as Ohio and Indiana, and later, Kansas. Thousands of others joined the migration to new opportunities in the Mississippi and Arkansas Delta bottomlands, and Texas. A Home on the Mississippi, by Currier and Ives, 1871
Farmers and ranchers who have experienced discrimination in USDA farm lending have the opportunity to receive up to $500,000 of financial assistance. Black farmers can get up to $500,000 if they ...
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 ...