Why So Fertile a Land - Cotton, Catfish, Casinos and the Contemplative Conscience (A Perspective on "The American Way of Life"); 1995
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- Identifier
- MS1133-0543
- Title
- Why So Fertile a Land - Cotton, Catfish, Casinos and the Contemplative Conscience (A Perspective on "The American Way of Life"); 1995
- Description
- A contemplation of "the American way of life" based on the author's experience of growing up in the Mississippi Delta
- Date
- 5 January 1995
- Creator
- Harbison, Richard T.
- topic
- talk
- lecture
- SPHEX Club
- Richard T. Harbison, Harbison
- 1995
- Mississippi Delta
- Delta
- Greenville, Mississippi
- Greenville
- American way of life
- black labor
- slavery
- slaves
- plantations
- sharecropping
- Chinese
- Chinese immigrants
- Chinese workers
- Mississippi River
- Yahoo River
- Prohibition
- the good life
- Old South
- gambling
- casino
- Mississippi River Commission
- levees
- Mississippi River flood
- flood control act
- flood control
- Hodding Carter
- Civil Rights Commission
- Ku Klux Klan
- KKK
- Joseph G. Camp
- Leroy Percy
- Emmett Till
- William C. Keady
- Keady
- Jim Crow
- Lanterns on the Levee
- Will Percy
- William A. Percy
- the blues
- Type
- Text
- Genre
- lectures
- Digital Format
- application/pdf
- Language
- English
- Repository
- George M. Jones Library Association
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights Holder
- Richard T. Harbison