The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to the Delta soon after the Civil War, and the pace picked up by the early 1900s. The Chinese originally came to work picking cotton, but they quickly ...

The Mississippi Delta was the richest cotton-farming land in the country — sustained on the backs of slaves. Skip To Content. ... African Americans picking cotton, Georgia, 1907.

BAMBOO PLANTATION, Miss. — In the sandy, soft soil where a small black church buried its dead, there now grows a field of snowy-white cotton. The Rev. Earnest Ware grew up here, in a plantati… ...

A blazing sun beat down one day last week on the Mississippi delta cotton fields as hundreds of white-shirted, straw-hatted plantation owners, managers, ginners, dealers, bankers, scientists and ...

Mississippi boy facing a 110-acre field of cotton proves persistence, not stubbornness, is his nature. News Sports Opinion Magnolia Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals MAGNOLIA ...

Mississippi Delta is home of the blues and key to civil rights past. ... "He came from plantations picking cotton. He lived through that time of Jim Crow." In one video, ...

Charley Pride was the first black artist to have a number one country record and the first artist of any race to win the Country Music Association’s male vocalist award two years in a row. He ...

The first wave of Chinese immigrants came to the Delta soon after the Civil War, and the pace picked up by the early 1900s. The Chinese originally came to work picking cotton, but they quickly ...