Yazoo
Author : Albert Talmon Morgan
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1884
Category : African Americans
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Author : Albert Talmon Morgan
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Page : 524 pages
File Size : 30,11 MB
Release : 1884
Category : African Americans
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Author : Frank E. Smith
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780878053551
An immensely pleasurable book that unlocks the door to one of the most unusual and diverse regions in the United States, the culturally rich Delta flatland embraced by two rivers, the Mississippi and the Yazoo
Author : John E. Ellzey
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 16,73 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 1467111627
With a diverse past, from Native American tribes to the first European explorers and settlers to the present day, Yazoo has always been intriguing. French explorers first named the river that flows through the area the River of the Yazous after the Yazoo Indian tribe, and the county and city were later named for the river. Yazoo County, established in 1823, is the largest county in Mississippi, situated in the west-central part of the state in the fertile valley formed by the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. After its organization, Yazoo County was rapidly settled by pioneers from other parts of Mississippi and from the Carolinas, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
Author : Willie Morris
Publisher :
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780916242688
The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Author : Willie Morris
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1610754980
In 1970 Brown v. Board of Education was sixteen years old, and fifteen years had passed since the Brown II mandate that schools integrate "with all deliberate speed." Still, after all this time, it was necessary for the U.S. Supreme Court to order thirty Mississippi school districts--whose speed had been anything but deliberate--to integrate immediately. One of these districts included Yazoo City, the hometown of writer Willie Morris. Installed productively on "safe, sane Manhattan Island," Morris, though compelled to write about this pivotal moment, was reluctant to return to Yazoo and do no less than serve as cultural ambassador between the flawed Mississippi that he loved and a wider world. "I did not want to go back," Morris wrote. "I finally went home because the urge to be there during Yazoo's most critical moment was too elemental to resist, and because I would have been ashamed of myself if I had not." The result, Yazoo, is part reportage, part memoir, part ethnography, part social critique--and one of the richest accounts we have of a community's attempt to come to terms with the realities of seismic social change. As infinitely readable and nuanced as ever, Yazoo is available again, enhanced by an informative foreword by historian Jenifer Jensen Wallach and a warm and personal afterword on Morris's writing life by his widow, JoAnne Prichard Morris.
Author : John C. Willis
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 33,53 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813919713
Examining the lives of individuals - freedmen, planters, and merchants - Willis explores the reciprocal interests of former slaves and former slaveholders. He shows how, in a cruel irony replicated in other areas of the South, the backbreaking work that African Americans did to clear, settle, and farm the land away from the river made the land ultimately too valuable for them to retain.
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Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,78 MB
Release : 1976
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Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,92 MB
Release : 1992
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Page : 1002 pages
File Size : 49,53 MB
Release : 2007
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Author : Myron J. Smith, Jr.
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 11,15 MB
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0786491108
Following the loss of the CSS Arkansas in early August 1862, Union and Confederate eyes turned to the Yazoo River, which formed the developing northern flank for the South's fortress at Vicksburg, Mississippi. For much of the next year, Federal efforts to capture the citadel focused on possession of that stream. Huge battles and mighty expeditions were launched (Chickasaw Bayou, Yazoo Pass, Steele's Bayou) from that direction, but the city, guarded by stout defenses, swamps, and motivated defenders, could not be turned. Finally, Union troops ran down the Mississippi and came up from the south and the river defenses and the bastion itself were taken from the east. From July 1863 to August 1864, sporadic Confederate resistance necessitated continued Federal attention. This book recounts the whole story.