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
...of cheap labor, on which Delta plantations depended. By 1910, tenants operated ninety-two percent of Delta farms, and ninety-five percent of those tenants were African American. New ethnic groups also...
Flatlands in the Outlands: Photographs from the Delta and Bayou
...Albert May, was a planter and also an amateur photographer who documented the Delta’s society and agricultural landscape during the 1920s. His photographs of plantation stores, baled cotton, and the...
Back to the Future: Mapping Workers Across the Global South
...living." The "dour tale of plant shutdowns" and the "hopeful story of plant openings" are, he points out, opposite sides of the same coin.54Cowie 11. By the same token, narratives...
Catfish Dream: An African American Vision in the Delta
...2013 Mississippi Delta, July 23, 2018. Map by Stephanie Bryan. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Ed Scott's grandson, Daniel Scott, took me through the ruins of the catfish plant. It had...
Inside the Jackson Tract: The Battle Over Peonage Labor Camps in Southern Alabama, 1906
..."in the timber." Clad in fine suits and surrounded by industry journalists, they walked the forest and discussed plans to establish a "Model Sawmill Plant" and a company town named...
Low-Wage Legacies, Race, and the Golden Chicken in Mississippi: Where Contemporary Immigration Meets African American Labor History
...poultry industry has received little attention. We base our narrative largely on recollections of former plant employees and longtime residents. As late as the early 1960s most Mississippi chicken plants...
Jim Crow Journeys: An Excerpt from Traveling Black
...of a number of nineteenth-century railroads whose proprietors wished to emphasize that their routes were more direct than those of competing roads. Black travelers described it in a discrimination complaint...
Inside Poor Monkey's
...Monkey, began to operate the unused sharecropper house as a lounge. (Enlarged Map: Poor Monkey's and Merigold) The building is made of unpainted cypress planks, roofed with corrugated galvanized steel...
The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
...out of a large fresh-water lagoon between King's and Old Plantation creeks in lower Northampton County, and Scott planned to develop a new town around it called Cape Charles City....