GREENVILLE - SHORT DOCUMENTARY
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A short documentary about the passing of time in small town Mississippi.
Greenville, Mississippi Airport Air Force Museum
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Ancient Kemetic Truth in Greenville, Mississippi
Practitioners of the Ancient Kemetic Truth discuss life in Greenville, Mississippi
Vicksburg, Mississippi Flooding 2011 May 15 outtake 3
(Reuters) - The Mississippi River at Vicksburg crept to within inches of its 1927 record on Saturday, as residents anxiously watched flood waters invade their historic city.
I've lived here all my life, said Peter Pikul, a resident, looking at water that had gone past the first floor of the old Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Station, now a museum. I've seen this water up and down but I've never seen it as high as it is right now.
In some Vicksburg neighborhoods, only the tops of houses could be seen Saturday afternoon.
Mississippi Delta residents are battling flood waters as the river, swollen by a rainy spring and melt from an especially snowy winter, continues to rise as it moves south. Up to 5,000 Mississippi residents have evacuated or will evacuate as the flooding spreads.
The water level at Vicksburg was 55.91 feet Saturday afternoon, just short of the record of 56.2 feet set in 1927. The river is expected to crest at Vicksburg May 19 at 57.5 feet -- 14.5 feet above flood level.
In Louisiana, the federal government opened a key spillway Saturday afternoon in a move to spare the state's two largest cities from flooding, but which will swamp thousands of homes and acres of crops.
James Phoenix, 57, a Vicksburg resident who has been staying in a Red Cross shelter since Thursday, said he intended to repair his family home once the flood waters receded, as he had when it was damaged by flooding in 1983. He grew up in the home with 12 brothers and sisters.
It's a terrible disaster that just happened but life must go on, Phoenix said.
Upstream, an old earthen levee near Greenville, Miss. collapsed overnight, causing flood water to pool in a rural area, officials said Saturday.
The levee, about a half a mile across, was built before the historic flood of 1927, and had held through every flood since, until early Saturday morning. No injuries were reported.
It's adding extra stress to the mainline levees, but they are holding, said U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spokesman Kavanaugh Breazeale.
Major roads and highways are closed in and around Vicksburg including a portion of U.S. Highway 61, according to the Mississippi Department of Transportation.
It is like we are on an island surrounded by water, said Vicksburg resident Sam Holcomb.
ALLIGATORS, HOGS AND SNAKES
The flooding has also driven wild animals into unexpected places, raising safety concerns.
Wild hogs and alligators were seen in residential and tourist areas in Vicksburg Friday, according to local police and witnesses.
About a dozen of the hogs climbed up out of the flood waters onto the riverbank of the city's River Front Park.
Police called the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to corral them.
It is getting worse and worse day by day, said Ashley Rose Nevels, of Vicksburg. Alligators, red ants, wild hogs and snakes are in such close proximity to humans. I am frightened about what will come next.
The 2011 flood continues to challenge or break records set during the floods of 1927 and 1937. Since the flood of 1927, which killed as many as 1,000 people, improvements have been made in flood control with the building of dams and levees, reservoirs and floodways.
The Bonnet Carre spillway was opened Monday, and the Corps blew up a section of the Birds Point levee in Missouri early this month, flooding farmland to save towns in Kentucky and Illinois.
With the opening of the Morganza Spillway Saturday, it is the first time that three of the river's floodways have been opened at the same time.
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Expedition! St. Louis: Biography of a River
Expedition! St. Louis was a documentary series produced by KTVI Public Affairs Office, between 1959 and 1963. All episodes were hosted and narrated by Bruce Hayward. Biography of a River, produced in 1959, is about the Mississippi river and discusses the river's natural history, exploration and settlements. It also addresses the political history of the river during the Civil War and it's importance to the development of our nation as a crucial method of transporting goods and people. This documentary covers the full length of the river from Lake Ataska in Minnesota down to New Orleans.
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Mississippi | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:09 1 Etymology
00:03:29 2 Geography
00:05:59 2.1 Major cities and towns
00:06:42 2.2 Climate
00:09:09 2.3 Ecology, flora, and fauna
00:11:37 2.4 Ecological problems
00:11:46 2.4.1 Flooding
00:15:43 3 History
00:17:32 3.1 Colonial era
00:20:02 3.2 United States territory
00:22:33 3.3 Statehood, 1817–1861
00:25:19 3.4 Civil War to 20th century
00:31:36 3.5 20th century to present
00:40:47 4 Demographics
00:44:36 4.1 Ancestry
00:48:39 4.2 Language
00:49:25 4.3 Religion
00:52:25 4.4 Birth data
00:52:53 4.5 LGBT
00:54:10 5 Health
00:56:30 6 Economy
01:02:19 6.1 Entertainment and tourism
01:04:04 6.2 Manufacturing
01:04:28 6.3 Taxation
01:06:09 6.4 Federal subsidies and spending
01:07:35 7 Politics and government
01:08:35 7.1 Laws
01:09:44 8 Political alignment
01:10:41 9 Transportation
01:10:50 9.1 Air
01:11:09 9.2 Roads
01:11:32 9.3 Rail
01:11:40 9.3.1 Passenger
01:12:06 9.3.2 Freight
01:12:50 9.4 Water
01:12:58 9.4.1 Major rivers
01:13:18 9.4.2 Major bodies of water
01:14:57 10 Media
01:15:06 11 Education
01:20:39 12 Culture
01:21:29 12.1 Music
01:23:40 12.2 Literature
01:23:48 12.3 Sports
01:24:34 13 Notable people
01:24:43 14 See also
01:25:00 15 Footnotes
01:25:09 16 Further reading
01:25:27 17 External links
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 34th most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the po ...
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Flooding in Dubuque, Iowa, 25.40 ft river crest on 04/21/2001.
Mississippi Jail Survey - 12/12/18
A new survey provided to the associated press suggests that the number of Mississippi inmates jailed for short periods may be declining, but that those in jail for longer is holding steady.
Vicksburg, Mississippi
Vicksburg is a city in and county seat of Warren County, Mississippi, United States. It is located 234 miles northwest of New Orleans on the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers, and 40 miles due west of Jackson, the state capital. It is located on the Mississippi River across from the state of Louisiana. Its southern border is formed by the Yazoo River.
The city has increased in population since 1900, when 14,834 people lived here. The population was 26,407 at the 2000 census. In 2010, it was designated as the principal city of a Micropolitan Statistical Area with a total population of 49,644. This MSA includes all of Warren County.
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History Is Lunch: New Stage Theatre, Scenes from Hell in High Water
On January 16, 2018, members of New Stage Theatre performed scenes from the play Hell in High Water as part of the History Is Lunch series.
Written by Marcus Gardley and based on actual events, Hell in High Water is an epic play with blues music about the 1927 Mississippi River Flood, the worst natural disaster in U.S. history pre-Katrina. At the heart of the story, set in Greenville, are two fathers and sons: LeRoy Percy, a white cotton farmer, and his son Will, and Joe Goodin, an African American bootblack, and his son James.
“While he is stranded on the levee with thousands of other African Americans, Joe tries to preserve his way of life while James hopes to inspire change,” said the play’s director Francine Thomas Reynolds. “Likewise, LeRoy attempts to preserve his labor force by keeping the blacks in town, but his son Will challenges his authority.”
Cast from the play are joined by Robert Luckett, director of the Margaret Walker Center at Jackson State University, who discusses the historical impact of the 1927 flood on the state’s citizens. Hell in High Water ran January 29 through February 10 at New Stage Theatre.
New Stage Theatre was chartered as a not-for-profit organization in 1965, producing its initial season in the winter/spring of 1966. New Stage's first home was a converted church, and the full houses for its opening season represented the city's first racially integrated theatre audience.
History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson. MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their Facebook page,
Leadway (Shaw, Mississippi)
Leadway traces the healing journey of Delta native, Cindi Quong Lofton, in the aftermath of personal loss and tragedy.
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00:04:48 1.1 Nelson Street
00:05:58 2 Geography
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00:11:03 4 Transportation
00:11:13 4.1 Air
00:11:41 4.2 Highway
00:12:41 5 Education
00:13:39 6 Media
00:13:53 7 Sports
00:14:39 8 Sites
00:16:02 9 In popular culture
00:16:37 10 Notable people
00:16:47 10.1 Born in Greenville
00:20:24 10.2 Greenville-related
00:21:52 11 Sister cities
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Greenville is a city in, and the county seat of, Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 34,400 at the 2010 census. It is located in the area of historic cotton plantations and culture known as the Mississippi Delta.
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The Mississippi Delta, also known as the Yazoo-Mississippi Delta, is the distinctive northwest section of the U.S. state of Mississippi (and portions of Arkansas and Louisiana) which lies between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers. The region has been called The Most Southern Place on Earth (Southern in the sense of characteristic of its region, the American South), because of its unique racial, cultural, and economic history. It is 200 miles long and 87 miles across at its widest point, encompassing circa 4,415,000 acres, or, some 7,000 square miles of alluvial floodplain. Originally covered in hardwood forest across the bottomlands, it was developed as one of the richest cotton-growing areas in the nation before the American Civil War (1861–1865). The region attracted many speculators who developed land along the riverfronts for cotton plantations; they became wealthy planters dependent on the labor of black slaves, who comprised the vast majority of the population in these counties well before the Civil War, often twice the number of whites.
As the riverfront areas were developed first and railroads were slow to be constructed, most of the bottomlands in the Delta were undeveloped, even after the Civil War. Both black and white migrants flowed into Mississippi, using their labor to clear land and sell timber in order to buy land. By the end of the 19th century, black farmers made up two-thirds of the independent farmers in the Mississippi Delta. In 1890 the white-dominated state legislature passed a new state constitution effectively disenfranchising most blacks in the state. In the next three decades, most blacks lost their lands due to tight credit and political oppression. African Americans had to resort to sharecropping and tenant farming to survive. Their political exclusion was maintained by the whites until after the gains of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
African Americans developed the musical forms of blues and jazz. The majority of residents in several counties in the region are still black, although more than 400,000 African Americans left the state during the Great Migration in the first half of the 20th century, moving to northern, midwestern, and western industrial cities.
As the agricultural economy does not support many jobs or businesses, the region has had to work hard in order to diversify that economy. Lumbering is important and new crops such as soybeans have been cultivated in the area by the largest industrial farmers.
At times, the region has suffered heavy flooding from the Mississippi River, notably in 1927 and 2011.
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with 86% of its non-whites living below the poverty level.In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African Americans, the highest percentage of African Americans in any U.S. state. Since regaining enforcement of their voting rights in the late 1960s, most African Americans have supported Democratic candidates in local, state and national elections. Conservative whites have shifted to the Republican Party. African Americans are a majority in many counties of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an area of historic slave settlement during the plantation era.
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From The Mississippi Delta directed by Professor Amini Courts at Coppin State University. This video highlights the actresses of the production
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Mississippi ( (listen)) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States. Mississippi is the 32nd most extensive and 32nd most populous of the 50 United States. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana to the south, and Arkansas and Louisiana to the west. The state's western boundary is largely defined by the Mississippi River. Jackson, with a population of approximately 175,000 people, is both the state's capital and largest city.
The state is heavily forested outside the Mississippi Delta area, which is the area between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Before the American Civil War, most development in the state was along riverfronts, as the waterways were critical for transportation. Large gangs of slaves were used to work on cotton plantations. After the war, freedmen began to clear the bottomlands to the interior, in the process selling off timber and buying property. By the end of the 19th century, African Americans made up two-thirds of the Delta's property owners, but timber and railroad companies acquired much of the land after the financial crisis, which occurred when blacks were facing increasing racial discrimination and disfranchisement in the state.
Clearing of the land for plantations altered the Delta's ecology, increasing the severity of flooding along the Mississippi by taking out trees and bushes that had absorbed excess waters. Much land is now held by agribusinesses. A largely rural state with agricultural areas dominated by industrial farms, Mississippi is ranked low or last among the states in such measures as health, educational attainment, and median household income. The state's catfish aquaculture farms produce the majority of farm-raised catfish consumed in the United States.Since the 1930s and the Great Migration of African Americans to the North and West, the majority of Mississippi's population has been white, although the state still has the highest percentage of black residents of any U.S. state. From the early 19th century to the 1930s, its residents were majority black, and before the American Civil War that population was composed largely of African-American slaves. Democratic Party whites retained political power through disfranchisement and Jim Crow laws. In the first half of the 20th century, nearly 400,000 rural blacks left the state for work and opportunities in northern and midwestern cities, with another wave of migration around World War II to West Coast cities. In the early 1960s, Mississippi was the poorest state in the nation, with 86% of its non-whites living below the poverty level.In 2010, 37% of Mississippians were African Americans, the highest percentage of African Americans in any U.S. state. Since regaining enforcement of their voting rights in the late 1960s, most African Americans have supported Democratic candidates in local, state and national elections. Conservative whites have shifted to the Republican Party. African Americans are a majority in many counties of the Mississippi-Yazoo Delta, an area of historic slave settlement during the plantation era.