A Bibliography for The Mississippi Delta updated 1/25/10
Asch, Chris Myers. 2008. The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer. New Press.
Aiken, Charles S. 1998. The Cotton Plantation South Since the Civil War. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Ambrose, Stephen and Douglas Brinkley. 2002. The Mississippi and the Making of a Nation. Washington D. C. National Geographic Society.
Anderson, LLC. 2002. Separate, But Equal. New York: Public Affairs.
Black, Patti (ed.). 1980. Mules and Mississippi. Mississippi Dept. Archives and History.
Black, Patti and Barnwell, Marion. 2002. Touring Literary Mississippi. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi
Blackmon, Douglas A. 2008. Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans From the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday. $29.95.
Barnwell, Marion. 1997. A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives. University Press of Mississippi.
Barry, John M. 1998. Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America. New York: Touchstone.
Beito, David and Linda. 2009. Black Maverick: T.R.M. Howard's Fight for Civil Rights and Economic Power. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Bond, Julian and Andrew Lewis. 1995. Gonna Sit at the Welcome Table. American Heritage Custom Publishing Group.
Boardman, Eunice (ed.). 2002. A Journey of the Blues. Mississippi Valley Blues Society. Accompanied by a CD.
Brent, Linda. 1973. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Brown, Luther. 2006. Inside Poor Monkey's. Southern Spaces. http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2006/brown/1a.htm
Brownderville, Greg Alan. 2005. Deep Down in the Delta: Folktales and Poems. The Doodlum Brothers Press.
Buchanan, Minor Ferris. 2002. Holt Collier: His Life, His Roosevelt Hunts, and the Origin of the Teddy Bear. Centennial Press of Mississippi.
Campbell, Will D. 1992. Providence. Georgia: Longstreet Press, Inc.
Canon, Sybil Reynolds (ed.). 2005. Rice in the Mississippi Delta: Yesterday, Today and Forever. Delta Rice Services, Inc.
Clay, Maude Schuyler and Lewis Nordan. 1999. Delta Land. University Press of Mississippi.
Charters, Samuel. The Country Blues. 1959 and 1975, DeCapo Press.
Charters, Samuel. The Poetry of the Blues. 1963. Avon Books.
Charters, Samuel. The Roots of the Blues, and African Search. 1981. DeCapo Press.
Cheseborough, Steve. 2001. Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues. University Press of Mississippi.
Clark, Eric, for the Mississippi Legislature. 2001. Mississippi Official and Statistical Register. State of Mississippi.
Cobb, James . 1992. The Most Southern Place on Earth: the Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity. New York: Oxford University Press.
Cobb, James C. 1995. The Mississippi Delta and the World: the Memoirs of David L. Cohn. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
Cohn, David L. 1948. Where I was Born and Raised. London: University of Notre Dame Press.
Cohn, Lawrence. 1993. Nothing But the Blues. Abbeville Press.
Colletta, John Philip. 2000. Only a Few Bones: A True Account of the Rolling Fork Tragedy and its Aftermath. Direct Decent.
Cowdrey, Albert E. 1996. This Land, This South: An Environmental History. Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky.
Cox, James L. 2001. The Mississippi Almanac. Computer Search and Research.
Crowe, Chris. 2003. Getting Away With Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case. Dial Books.
Curry, Constance [et al.]. 2000. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom Movement. Georgia: The University of Georgia Press.
Curry, Constance. 1995. Silver Rights. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company.
Dattel, Gene. 2009. Cotton and Race in the Making of America: the Human Costs of Economic Power. Ivan R. Dee, Publisher.
Daniel, Pete. 1986. Breaking the Land: the transformation of cotton, tobacco, and rice cultures since 1880. University of Chicago Press.
Daniel, Pete. 1997. Deep’n As it Come: The 1927 Mississippi River Flood. Oxford University Press.
Daniel, Pete. 2000. Lost Revolutions: the South in the 1950s. USA: Smithsonian Institute.
Davis, Francis. 1995. The History of the Blues: the Roots, the Music, the People: From Charley Patton to Robert Cray. New York: Hyperion
Dollard, John. 1949. Caste and Class in a Southern Town. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.
Dunbar, Tony, Patty Still and Anthony Dunbar. 1990. Delta Time: A Journey Through Mississippi. Pantheon Books.
David Honeyboy Edwards, Janis Martinson, and Michael Robert Frank. The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards. 1997. Chicago Review Press.
Egerton, John. 1994. Speak Now Against the Day: the Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the South. North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press.
Faulkner, John. 1942. Dollar Cotton. A Hill Street Classics Book.
Faulkner, William. 1993. Absalom, Absalom!. New York: Random House, Inc.
Faulkner, William. 1995. If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem [The Wild Palms]. Vintage International.
Ferris, William. 1978. Blues From the Delta. New York: Da Capo Press.
Ferris, William. 2009. Give My Poor Heart Ease. the University of North Carolina Press.
Field, Claire T. 2002. Mississippi Delta Women in Prison. NewSouth Books.
Gage, Melissa and Justin Gage. 2009. Memphis and the Delta Blues Trail. The Countryman Press.
Gates, Henry Louise Jr. 1995. Colored People. New York: Vintage Books, Random House, Inc.
Griffin, Farah Jasmine. 1995. Who Set You Flowin'? Oxford University Press.
Hamilton, Mary. 1992. Trails of the Earth. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
Hermann, Janet Sharpe. 1999. The Pursuit of a Dream. Banner Books.
Hightower, Sheree, Cathy Stanga, and Carol Cox. 1994. Mississippi Observed. University Press of Mississippi.
Holditch, Kenneth and Leavitt, Richard. 2002. Tennessee Williams and the South. University Press of Mississippi.
Holley, Donald. 2000. The Second Great Emancipation: The Mechanical Cotton Picker, Black Migration, and How They Shaped the Modern South. University of Arkansas Press.
Holland, Endesha Ida Mae. 1997. From the Mississippi Delta. Simon and Schuster.
Holloway, Joseph E. 1990. Africanisms in American Culture. Indiana University Press.
Howell, Elmo. 1998. Mississippi Back Roads: Notes on Literature and History. Langford and Associates.
Huffman, Alan, and Florence West Huffman. 1997. Ten Point: Deer Camp in the Mississippi Delta. University Press of Mississippi.
Hudson, Winson, and Constance Curry. 2002. Mississippi Harmony: Memoirs of a Freedom Fighter. Palgrave-MacMillan.
Hurt, R. Douglas (ed.). 2003. African American Life in the Rural South. University of Missouri Press.
Imes, Birney. 1994. Partial to Home. Washington D. C.: Smithsonian Institution.
Imes, Birney and Richard Ford. 2002. Juke Joint. University Press of Mississippi.
Jesse Jackson (Foreword), Mamie Till-Mobley, Christopher Benson. 2003. Death of Innocence : The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America . Random House.
Johnston, Michael. 2003. In the Deep Heart’s Core. Grove Press.
Jones, Fernando. 2009. I Was There When the Blues Was Red Hot. Amazon.
Kap, Stann, Diane Marchall and John T. Edge. 1998. Deep South. Lonely Planet Publications.
Kirkpatric, Marlo Carter. 1999. Mississippi Off the Beaten Path. Old Saybrook, CT.
Kubik, Gerhard. 1999. Africa and the Blues. University Press of Mississippi.
Lawrence, Jacob. 1992. The Great Migration. Museum of Modern Art.
Lee, Chana Kai. 1999. For Freedom’s Sake: the Life of Fanny Lou Hamer. University Press of Illinois.
Lemann, Nicholas. 1991. The Promised Land: An Account of Sharecropping Families in Their Journey from the Mississippi Delta to Chicago. Pan McMillan.
Lemann, Nicholas. 2006. Redemption: the Last Battle of the Civil War. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Levine, Lawrence W. 1977. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought From Slavery to Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press.
Lomax, Alan. 1993. The Land Where the Blues Began. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.
McDowell, Fred and Dan Bowden. 1996. Fred McDowell The Voice of Mississippi Delta Blues Guitar. Mel Bay Publications.
Mathur, Anuradha and da Cunha, Dilip. 2001. Mississippi Floods. Connecticut: Yale University Press.
Mastran, Shelley S. 2002. Your Town: Mississippi Delta. Princeton Architectural Press.
Mauskopf, Norman, and Randall Kenan. 1997. A Time Not Here: The Mississippi Delta. Twin Palms Publishing.
Metress, Christopher. 2002. The Lynching of Emmett Till: A Documentary Narrative. University Press of Virginia.
Morris, Willie. 2002. My Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi.
Moye, J. Todd, 2004. Let the People Decide: Black freedom and White resistance movements in Sunflower County, Mississippi, 1945-1986. University of North Carolina Press.
Mills, Kay. 2007. This Little Light of Mine: the Life of Fannie Lou Hamer. The University of Kentucky Press.
Miles, Jim. 1994. A River Unvexed: A History and Tour Guide of the Campaign for the Mississippi River. Rutledge Hill Press Civil War Campaign Series.
McMillen, Neil R. 1990. Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow. Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
Nall, Hiram. 2001. From Down South to Up South: An Examination of Geography in the Blues. Midwest Quarterly 42(3): 306- 313.
Nelson, Lawrence J. 1999. King Cotton’s Advocate: Oscar Johnston and the New Deal. The University of Tennessee Press.
Newman, Mark. 2004. Divine Agitators: The Delta Ministry and Civil Rights in Mississippi. University of Georgia Press, not yet released.
Nicholson, Robert. 1998. Mississippi: The Blues Today. London: Blandford.
Norris, Randal. 2008. Highway 61: Heart of the Delta. University of Tennessee Press.
Oliver, Paul. 1968. Screening the Blues: Aspects of the Blues Tradition. New York: Da Capo Press, Inc.,
O’Neal, Jim and Amy van Single. 2002. The Voice of the Blues: Classic Interviews from Living Blues Magazine. Routledge.
Oshinsky, David M. 1996. Worse Than Slavery: Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow. New York: The Free Press.
Owens, Harry P. 1990. Steamboats and the Cotton Economy: River Trade in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. University Press of Mississippi.
Palmer, Robert. 1981. Deep Blues. New York: Penguin Books.
Payne, Charles M. 1995. I’ve Got the Light Freedom. California: University of California Press.
Percy, William Alexander. 1968. Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter’s Son. Louisiana: Louisiana State University Press.
Powdermaker, Hortense. 1967. After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South. Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Rankin, Tom. 1993. Sacred Space. University Press of Mississippi.
Robertson, David. 2009. W. C. Handy: the Life and Times of the Man Who Made the Blues. Alfred A. Knopf.
Saikku, Mikko. 2001. The Evolution of Place: Patterns of Environmental Change in the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta from the Ice Age to the New Deal. Renvall Institute Publications, University of Helsinki.
Saikku, Mikko. 2005. This Delta, This Land: An Environmental History of the Yazoo-Mississippi Floodplain. University of Georgia Press.
Saikku, Mikko. 2010. Bioregional Approach to Southern History: The Yazoo-Mississippi Delta. Southern Spaces.
http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2010/saikku/1a.htm
Salvatore, Nick. 2005. Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America. Little, Brown, and Co.
Saucier, Roger. 1994. Geomorphology and Quaternary Geologic History of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Mississippi: U .S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station.
Sayre, Maggie. 1995. ed. By Tom Rankin. Deaf Maggie Lee Sayre: Photographs of a River Life. Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi.
Shearer, Cynthia. 2005. The Celestial Jukebox. Shoemaker & Hoard.
Schweid, Richard. 1992. Catfish and the Delta: Confederate Fish Farming in the Mississippi Delta. Ten Speed Press.
Segrest, James, and Mark Hoffman. 2004. Moanin' at Midnight : The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf, Pantheon Books.
Sillers, Florence Warfield (compiler). 1948. The History of Bolivar County. Hederman Brothers, 1948.
Smith, Thomas Ruys. 2007. River of Dreams: Imagining the Mississippi before Mark Twain. LSU Press.
Starr, Kathy. 1989. The Soul of Southern Cooking. University Press of Mississippi.
Taulbert, Clifton. 1995. When We Were Colored. New York: Penguin Group.
Taylor,William Banks and Peggy Whitman Prenshaw. 1999. Down on Parchman Farm: The Great Prison in the Mississippi Delta. The Ohio State University Press.
Twain, Mark. Life on the Mississippi. 1981. Bantam Classics.
Vollers, Maryanne. 1995. Ghosts of Mississippi: the Murder of Medgar Evers, the Trials of Byron De La Beckwith and the Haunting of the New South. Canada: Little, Brown & Company Limited
Wald, Elijah. Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues. 2004. Amistad Press.
Wardlow, Gayle Dean. 1998. Chasin’ That Devil Music. California: Miller Freeman Books.
Welty, Eudora. 1979. Delta Wedding. Harvest Books.
Welty, Eudora. 2003. Some Notes on River Country. University Press of Mississippi.
Whitfield, Stephen J. 1991. A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till. Johns Hopkins University Press.
Willis, John C. 2000. Forgotten Time: the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta after the Civil War. Virginia: The University Press of Virginia.
Wilson, Charles Reagan. 2004. Mississippi Delta. Southern Spaces http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2004/wilson/3a.htm
Woodruff, Nan Elizabeth. 2003. American Congo : The African American Freedom Struggle in the Delta. Harvard University Press.
Woods, Clyde. 2000. Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta. Verso Books.
Work, John W., Lewis Wade Jones and Samuel C. Adams, Jr. (Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov, Eds.). 2005. Lost Delta Found. Vanderbilt Univ. Press.
Wright, Richard. Uncle Tom’s Children. 1936. Harper Collins.
Luther Brown, Delta Center for Culture and Learning
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