Daily Readings and Other Pre-Class Preparation

Most class meetings will require some sort of preparation.  This page will link you directly to online resources and identify any other kinds of preparation that may be required.  This page will be updated regularly during the class, so check it at least once a week!

To find the resources you need for each meeting, click on the date, or scroll down this page.

August 26:  Cane Brakes, High Water, Drought: The Mississippi Delta by Tom Rankin
                 (due Sept. 9)

September 2:  Home in the Delta by Deborah Boykin
                      "Like a River Flowing with Living Water": Worshiping in the Mississippi Delta
                         by Joyce Marie Jackson
                      Old Ways Church and Family, by David Wharton
                       (due Sept. 9)

September 9:  Salt and Amerindian prehistory, by Ian Brown
                      On the Tunica Trail, by Jeffery Brain
                     Monumental American Indian Architecture, US National Park Service
                      Due Sept. 16)

September 16:  Lower Mississippi River Conservation Committee (explore the entire site)
                        Natural Resources - the Heart of the Delta, US National Park Service
                        (Due Sept.23)

September 23: US Army Corps, Vicksburg (explore the entire site)
                        The Mississippi Levee System and the Old River Control Structure by Katherine
                         Kemp
                        (Due Sept 30)

September 30:  Fatal Flood (explore the entire site)
                        (Due Oct. 7)

October 7:   The Mississippi Delta Report of the US Commission on Civil Rights (2001).  Read the entire report.
                    (Due Oct.14)

October 14: "Willing to Take a Risk": Working in the Delta by Susan Roach
                     At Play in the Delta by Michael Luster
                    (Due Oct. 21)

October 21:  The Question of Race by Julian Bond
                    Music & the U.S. Civil Rights Movement by Jacquelin C. Peters
                    (Due Oct. 28)

October 28: Recollections of a Southern Jew by Edward Cohen
                    GOIN' TO CHICAGO, A Facilitator's Guide
                    FLY AWAY:  the great migration
                    (Due Nov. 4)

November 4:  History of Cotton, by Joyce E. Chaplin
                   The History of Cotton (also read The History of the Cotton Gin, 
                   linked at the bottom of the page, and then look at the "map of cotton")
                    (Due Nov. 11)

November 11:  Junior's Juke Joint site, by Junior Doughty (explore the ENTIRE site)
                        The Great African-American Migration and the Blues of the Mississippi River, by Peter
                        R. Aschoff
                        (Due Nov. 18)

November 18:  Delta and Pine Land Company web site
                        Sanders Seed web site
                        Monsanto web site
                        (Due Nov. 25)

November 25:  No further Journal assignments will be made, or accepted.

December 2:

December 9:

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