The music migrated north -- from Mississippi Delta to Memphis to my hometown in Chicago.
As an extra-credit assignment one afternoon, I asked the students to draw a picture representing the Mississippi Delta.
Melinda is the granddaughter of sharecroppers who grew up in a rural farming community in the Mississippi Delta.
Obama touched on the Mississippi Delta's economic struggles during a final campaign stop in Greenville, Mississippi, according to the AP.
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Bobby Kennedy visited the Mississippi Delta in 1967, and reported back to the Senate about the malnutrition and disease he encountered.
Well, one thing, when we left Washington and arrived in Appalachia and arrived in the Mississippi Delta and arrived in East St.
Freeman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lives in the Mississippi Delta.
We are in the midst of a growth spurt both residentially, commercially, industrially, but it fits in the middle of the Mississippi Delta.
Not surprisingly, the Mississippi Delta town continues to struggle with poverty.
The Loueo Plains(ph) of the Mississippi delta spawned a legion of blues men in the 1940s and '50s, but maybe none more famous today than Riley B.
Scientists say the city is steadily sinking into the mud of the Mississippi Delta, making it even more vulnerable to the next super-storm, or the one after.
The absorbing story, set in a desolate patch of the Mississippi Delta in wintertime, begins obliquely, as a man is found dead, a suicide, in his modest home.
Kennedy's footsteps with a May trip to the Mississippi Delta.
For instance, Tyler Farms, spread out across 60, 000 acres of the impoverished Mississippi Delta, is a co-operative, bringing together some 39 investors, most from the same family, who in turn own 66 individual companies.
Accompanied by a posse of cabinet ministers, congressmen and corporate executives, the president touched down in Appalachia, the Mississippi Delta, the Pine Ridge Indian reservation in South Dakota and other black spots of economic backwardness.
Oil continued flowing at the rate of about 5, 000 barrels per day into the Gulf of Mexico on May 3, following the April 20 explosion at the Deepwater Horizon rig south of the Mississippi Delta that caused it to sink and left its well leaking oil.
Ever since 1718, when Jean Baptiste le Moyne de Bienville, a French colonist, decided to build his settlement on a hurricane-prone patch of swampland surrounded by three huge pools of water (the Mississippi Delta, the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Pontchartrain), New Orleans has been living in nature's shadow.
Also in Mississippi, Precision Delta Corp. makes ammunition in Ruleville, MAC makes polymer bullet casings in Bay St.
On Wednesday, authorities found McMillian's body near a levee between Sherard and Rena Lara, two unincorporated communities about 15 minutes away from Clarksdale in northwestern Mississippi's Delta region.
They include the Chandeleur Islands and Gulf Islands National Seashore areas in Louisiana and Mississippi, along with the Active Delta area in Louisiana, which includes Delta Island National Wildlife Refuge and the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Area.
On the other side of the Mississippi, Clarksdale is the site of the Delta Blues Museum which features a wax replica of a legendary bluesman, Muddy Waters.
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Before the French built the first levees 250 years ago, the Mississippi dumped 200 million tons of silt a year into the delta, consistently fortifying the land.
Moreover, the gambling industry has not spread either to the northern parts of Mississippi or across the river to Arkansas, where some small Delta towns are simply disappearing.
When the gambling industry came to the Delta in 1992, setting up nine casinos in dirt-poor Tunica, Mississippi, there were great hopes of a regional revival.
Another project would cut a new navigation channel into the Mississippi before it branches south, allowing sediment to build up in what's left of the delta.
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