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Mississippi Delta
Charles Reagan Wilson, University of Mississippi


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Recommended Resources:
Brandfon, Robert L. Cotton Kingdom of the New South: A History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta from Reconstruction to the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967.

Cobb, James C. The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Cohn, David. Where I Was Born and Raised. Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1948.

Dunbar, Anthony. Delta Time: A Journey through Mississippi. New York: Pantheon, 1990.

Grim, Valerie. “Black Farm Families in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta: A Study of the Brooks Farm Community, 1920-1970.” Ph.D. dissertation: Iowa State University, 1990.

Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Taulbert, Clifton. Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored. Tulsa: Council Oaks Books, 1989.

Willis, John C. Forgotten Time: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000.


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Published: 4 April 2004

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