Deangelo Manuel and Tyra Climmons, two interns working with Harrell, visited two plantations in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, interviewing people ...
was one of the earliest types of blues music and originated in Mississippi in the Delta. The Delta was particularly poverty stricken and the plantation owners kept their workers in harsh conditions.
the man who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962. But that wasn’t the end of efforts to dismantle entrenched segregation on the college campus most associated with the Old South. Even the ...
Issues such as absenteeism, high failure rates, and economic pressures, including boys working in sugarcane plantations to support their families, have contributed to the problem.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WJAR) — Changes are gradually unfolding at Rhode Island’s State House to erase the words “Providence Plantations” in some spots. It’s been nearly four years since ...