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The Arkansas Delta
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Author : Williard B. Gatewood Jr.
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 1996-12-01
The Arkansas Delta written by Williard B. Gatewood Jr. and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-01 with History categories.
Emerges is a rich tapestry of dichotomies that is the Delta - a land of black and white, of wealth and poverty, of progress and stasis, of despair and hope - in which all that is dear and terrible about this often overlooked region of the South is revealed.
Early Education In Arkansas Delta
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Author : D. Antonio Cantu
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Early Education In Arkansas Delta written by D. Antonio Cantu and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with History categories.
Containing some of the most fertile soil in the world, the Arkansas Delta is predominantly an agricultural region. In the early 19th century, however, while the land remained extremely rich, the Delta's inhabitants were suffering from severe poverty. Showcased here in over 200 vintage images with corresponding commentary are the historic efforts in the education of the Delta for the past 150 years, documenting the region's rise in national education standards. Settled in part by the Native American tribes of the Mississippi Delta and later French explorers, the area was always an agricultural gold-mine. As seen in many farm reliant communities, education fell second to tilling the fields. As the rest of the world began its rapid ascension from agriculture to industrialization, the farmers of the Delta, poor and uneducated, were left behind the rest of the nation. This new book, featuring remarkable images of the one-room schoolhouses, teachers, and students of the many communities of the Delta, spans over two centuries, as the authors trace the history of education in the Arkansas Delta from its roots in the mid-19th century to its current state in the dawn of the 21st century.
Few Comforts Or Surprises
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Author : Eugene Richards
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
Release Date : 1973
Few Comforts Or Surprises written by Eugene Richards and has been published by MIT Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Photography categories.
Eugene Richards first came to the southeastern part of Arkansas--the so-called Delta--in 1968 as a VISTA volunteer. After nearly two years in that organization working to set up a daycare center and recreation programs, he and some of his associates in it left to found RESPECT Inc., a private social-action program providing paralegal services, publishing a community newspaper, and distributing food and clothing in West Memphis (across the Mississippi River from Memphis, Tennessee).As he lived and became increasingly involved in the black community, Richards, a skilled photographer, began to use his camera to record what he observed--not only the poverty and suffering of these people but also their laughter, contemplation, and triumphs. His subjects range from children at play to an African-style wedding to scenes of work and home life. Death, religion, and imprisonment are major elements of Delta existence, and so of these photos.The 110 photographs collected here express the quality of life in a part of the South where 60 percent of the black families barely earn $2000 a year, and 70 percent of the dwellings are deteriorated and without plumbing. Richards' camera catches the cotton compresses, the cement mill, the broken fields and small cafes, Logan the mortician, the two blind brothers Willy and Isaiah McCowan, and the Reverend Ezra Greer at the state capitol in Little Rock, while his few but carefully chosen words complement these images. Together they hold the people and the place in a world that Richards feels "slipping by, while I merely observed its disappearance."I feared being only eyes, only a cameraman," he says, but through his camera his eyes become ours, and the power of his feelings, ours too.
The Arkansas Delta
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Author : Thomas S. Baskett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Arkansas Delta written by Thomas S. Baskett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Arkansas categories.
The Arkansas Delta
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Author : Ken Hubbell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
The Arkansas Delta written by Ken Hubbell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Arkansas categories.
During Wind And Rain
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Author : Margaret Jones Bolsterli
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2008-04-01
During Wind And Rain written by Margaret Jones Bolsterli and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"During Wind and Rain moves from the land's acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today's commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck."--Jacket.
The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project
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Author : David A. Jolliffe
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 2016-11-10
The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project written by David A. Jolliffe and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-11-10 with Education categories.
In rural America, perhaps more than other areas, high school students have the ability to contribute to the revitalization and sustainability of their home communities by engaging in oral history projects designed to highlight the values that are revered and worth saving in their region. The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project, a multiyear collaboration between the University of Arkansas and several public high schools in small, rural Arkansas towns, gives students that opportunity. Through the project, trained University of Arkansas studentmentors work with high school students on in-depth writing projects that grow out of oral history interviews. The Delta, a region where the religious roots of southern culture run deep and the traditions of cooking, farming, and hunting are passed from generation to generation, provides the ideal subject for oral history projects. In this detailed exploration of the project, the authors draw on theories of cultural studies and critical pedagogy of place to show how students’ work on religion, food, and race exemplifies the use of community literacy to revitalize a distressed economic region. Advancing the discussion of place-based education, The Arkansas Delta Oral History Project is both inspirational and instructive in offering a successful model of an authentic literacy program.
Classic Eateries Of The Arkansas Delta
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Author : Kat Robinson
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-21
Classic Eateries Of The Arkansas Delta written by Kat Robinson and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-21 with History categories.
The Arkansas Delta is fertile ground for delicious food and iconic restaurants. It's a thickly layered culinary landscape built on generations of immigrants, farmers and cooks. Savor Delta tamales at Pasquale's Tamales, Rhoda's Famous Hot Tamales and Smokehouse BBQ. Meet the masters of barbecue like Harold Jones at the James Beard American classic Jones Barbecue Diner in Marianna. Dine where Elvis Presley ate, travel to Bill Clinton's favorite burger joint and cross the roads where Johnny Cash grew up. From legendary catfish havens such as Murry's Restaurant in Hazen to divine drive-ins like the Polar Freeze in Walnut Ridge, author Kat Robinson and photographer Grav Weldon explore more than one hundred classic joints, superb steakhouses, pie places and decadent doughnut palaces in this tasty travelogue.
Smoke Up The River
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Author : Van Hawkins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-07-11
Smoke Up The River written by Van Hawkins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-11 with categories.
Over many centuries the Mississippi River formed a vast alluvial plain. Through this rich soil run many rivers used by merchants and travelers. Steamboats especially designed for these waterways, and the culture they created, are the subject of this book. Travel on the lower Mississippi River and its tributaries is depicted through the 19th century.
Defining The Delta
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Author : Janelle Collins
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2015-11-16
Defining The Delta written by Janelle Collins and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-16 with Social Science categories.
Inspired by the Arkansas Review’s “What Is the Delta?” series of articles, Defining the Delta collects fifteen essays from scholars in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities to describe and define this important region. Here are essays examining the Delta’s physical properties, boundaries, and climate from a geologist, archeologist, and environmental historian. The Delta is also viewed through the lens of the social sciences and humanities—historians, folklorists, and others studying the connection between the land and its people, in particular the importance of agriculture and the culture of the area, especially music, literature, and food. Every turn of the page reveals another way of seeing the seven-state region that is bisected by and dependent on the Mississippi River, suggesting ultimately that there are myriad ways of looking at, and defining, the Delta.