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Excerpt from The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi DeltaIn the state of Mississippi, between the 3zud and 3sth parallels of north latitude, its entire western border washed by the Mississippi river, and most of its eastern by the Yazoo, extending north from the con¿uence of those streams at a point just above the city of Vicks burg, lies the strip of territory known as the Yazoo Mississippi delta. The exact origin of the word delta, as applied to...

The Journal of Mississippi History, Vol. 10, No. 3, July 1948, primarily contains an article by Alfred Holt Stone (1870-1955), a lawyer and cotton planter in Mississippi. Stone served as president of the MHS, and authored a history of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments as well as a collection of articles on race, including A Mississippian's View of civil Rights, States Rights, and the Reconstruction Background. A second major article by Willie...

Excerpt from The Negro in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta In the state of Mississippi, between the 3zud and 3sth parallels of north latitude, its entire western border washed by the Mississippi river, and most of its eastern by the Yazoo, extending north from the con¿uence of those streams at a point just above the city of Vicks burg, lies the strip of territory known as the Yazoo Mississippi delta. The exact origin of the word delta, as applied ...