Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta
...square miles of alluvial floodplain. Map of Mississippi Delta from Charles Wilson's "Mississippi Delta." The Yazoo-Mississippi floodplain is usually called "the Mississippi Delta" or simply "the Delta" by the region's...
Mississippi Delta
...environmental forces, the dynamics of an evolving biracial society, and the Delta's relationship to broader southern, American, and global forces. The "Mississippi Delta" is actually the delta of the Yazoo River,...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Deltans migrated to Memphis, Milwaukee, Chicago, Los Angeles—anywhere offering hope for a better life. Most counties in the Delta have lost more than half of their population in the last...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
...operation's scope and sophistication, modern machinery, and mechanization of labor. American Lumberman reported: "Lockhart is as a sawmill town should be—in the woods—but it is [at] the very center of...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...from his father, now employs GPS on his combine. Willena Scott-White has plans for the Delta Farmers Museum and Cultural Learning Center in Mound Bayou to keep the stories of...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...preserved, and some have even suggested that it should be moved and “cleaned up” as was done to the log cabin that Muddy Waters grew up in. The Delta Center...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...fifteen or sixteen years old, but most were in their late teens or early twenties. There were several mother-daughter pairs in the mill, and a number of the women working...
Cruising Grounds: Seeking Sex and Claiming Place in Houston, 1960–1980
...queer establishments, with Art Wren's at the center. In Midtown, the intersection of Main and Tuam was also quite close to a number of other venues catering to queer community....
Six Degrees of Alan Lomax: A Review and Multimedia Excerpts
...Center for Louisiana Studies, 2007). Ancelet considers his brand of folkloristics "guerrilla academics." Barry Ancelet, "The Center for Acadian and Creole Folklore: An Experiment in Guerrilla Academics," in Sounds of...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...market, participated in Atlantic trading, and maintained long-standing shipping practices with major urban centers in the Eastern United States. They responded to the changing market conditions even before the railroad...