Download or read book Yazoo written by Albert Talmon Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yazoo River written by Frank E. Smith and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1988 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
Download or read book Good Old Boy written by Willie Morris and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's boyhood escapades in his hometown of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Download or read book Yazoo written by John E. Ellzey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Forgotten Time written by John C. Willis and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Yazoo written by Willie Morris and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Fight for the Yazoo August 1862 July 1864 written by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Yazoo River Basin Flood Control Mississippi River and Tributaries written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yazoo City Federal Correctional Complex written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Yazoo Backwater Area written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kudzu That Ate Yazoo City written by William Jenkins and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Junior Jenkins, influenced by a large family, poverty, faith, and the ever-present kudzu vine, mingles fact, fiction and homegrown wisdom to remember those cotton picking days in Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Download or read book Yazoo Area Pump Project MS LA written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Concentrations and Loads of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in the Yazoo River Northwestern Mississippi 1996 97 written by Richard Henry Coupe and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Upper Yazoo Projects Reformulation Study Supplemental EIS SEIS Flood Control Mississippi River and Tributaries Yazoo Basin written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Streamflow and Nutrient Data for the Yazoo River Below Steele Bayou Near Long Lake Mississippi 1996 2000 written by M. S. Runner and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Gibbs Mitchell Giles Ancestors of Yazoo County written by Sammie Giles Jr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about local history of families in an approximately 300-square-mile region of Yazoo County in central Mississippi from 1865 to 1965. It sketches the lives of these African Americans in a violent environment. It transcribes the 1865-66 plantation census of the county. It identifies relatives who fought in the Civil War, and points out the betrayal of Southern United States Colored Troops by Reconstruction presidents. It discusses survival skills, and compares life spans of two generations. Addressing unpleasantness it fills gaps left by oral family history.
Download or read book Upper Yazoo Basin Fish and Wildlife Mitigation Study written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
