This blog is recording experiences from a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History workshop in Cleveland, Mississippi. It includes music, culture and history in the Delta.
Before we attended this seminar we had a list of readings that we needed to do. Here are some of the readings and books that you might...
Tuesday, July 9, 2019
Diversity on the Delta 7/10/19
The Delta has always had a variety of different ethnicities and religions. The county is named after the great Spanish liberator Simon Bolivar. Cleveland is in Bolivar county. The Chinese owned stores and restaurants. We took a field trip to a Chinese cemetery.
We also visited a Jewish synagogue.
Look at this site for another glimpse of today's events.