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Levee camps constructed from the early 1800s to the 1930s were originally initiated to create a system of man made levees along the Mississippi river after an increase in flooding. Before 1879 levees were built by a combination of African American convicted criminals, slaves, and racially mixed immigrant laborers.
The great flood is described in detail in William Alexander Percy's Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son (1941), Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0-8071-0072-2 (Reprinted with new introduction by Walker Percy, Louisiana State University Press, 1973), which discussed the changing South of Percy's youth and portrayed life in the ...
Mississippi Delta – green line marks boundary. The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo–Mississippi Delta, or simply the Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) that lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers.
The Mississippi River Delta is the confluence of the Mississippi River with the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana, southeastern United States. The river delta is a three-million-acre (4,700 sq mi; 12,000 km 2 ) area of land that stretches from Vermilion Bay on the west, to the Chandeleur Islands in the east, on Louisiana's southeastern coast. [ 1 ]
HAER No. MN-62, "Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 1, Saint Paul, Ramsey County, MN", 30 photos, 47 data pages, 3 photo caption pages HAER No. IA-22, " Upper Mississippi River 9-Foot Channel, Lock & Dam No. 10, Guttenberg, Clayton County, IA ", 114 photos, 11 data pages, 8 photo caption pages
From bald eagle spotting to cross-country skiing over the backwaters, the Mississippi River has a lot to offer in the winter, if you're willing to get out there.
It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from changing course. Completed in 1963, the complex was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a side channel of the Mississippi known as "Old River", between the Mississippi's current channel and the Atchafalaya Basin ...
The African American Film Critics Association has joined forces with Delta Air Lines to celebrate Black History Month. The organization, which spotlights movies about the Black experience, worked ...