Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana 
  • Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr. " King's history of the Birmingham protests that took place in 1963 and his effort to explain the aims and goals of the Civil Rights Movement to a national audience. King explores the background of the protests in Birmingham, the importance of nonviolence as the primary approach to protest, how this approach played out in Birmingham, and the aftermath of the protests in an introduction and eight chapters organized chronologically."  (SuperSummary Study Guide)
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  • The Mississippi Blues Trail  Experience the Blues where they were born.
  • List of Blues Trail Markers  especially see the events calendar for the region.  The Mississippi Blues Trail markers tell stories through words and images of bluesmen and women and how the places where they lived and the times in which they existed–and continue to exist–influenced their music. The sites run the gamut from city streets to cotton fields, train depots to cemeteries, and clubs to churches. We have a lot to share, and it's just down the Mississippi Blues Trail.​
  • Mississippi Blues Trail 200 on Spotify
  • Mississippi State of Blues (2010) by Ken Murphy. The result of a three-year collaboration between Murphy and Oxford-based blues writer Scott Barretta, the book offers an assessment in both image and prose of the way blues exists and persists in the in 21st century. It offers a refreshingly new look at the world of Mississippi blues, capturing both traditional imagery and modern expressions of blues tourism via Murphy's characteristically highly detailed and panoramic full color images. Ken Murphy blogs about Mississippi blues at highway61radio.com
  • Scott Barretta has edited two roots music magazines, “Jefferson” (in Sweden) and “Living Blues” (University of Mississippi) and is working on a sociology dissertation on blues revivalism. He hosts the MPB radio show “Highway 61,” writes a weekly roots music column for the Clarion-Ledger newspaper, is writing historic marker text for the forthcoming Mississippi Blues Trail and is head content consultant for the B.B. King Museum and Delta Cultural Center. He has taught blues courses at the University of Mississippi and Millsaps College.

  • The  BB King  Museum Indeanola MS 
  • The Mississippi Humanities Council Jackson, MS The Mississippi Humanities Council creates opportunities for Mississippians to learn about themselves and the larger world and enriches communities through civil conversations about our history and culture.
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Americana Music Triangle
​See the Maps and Events
How all the Mississippi's tributaries flow into it and eventually out into the Gulf of Mexico.  NASA ​waterways
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The MS Delta Complex. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/miss-delta-formation/
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Caddo Lake State Park  TX-LA.   32.6824175&lng=-94.17674199999999 
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decolonization . indigenation . civil rights . environmental justice . acknowledgment . politics              Dear Gia, Today mama launched her podcast Parenting Decolonized and I am dedicating every episode to you.  
             Because of you, I'm learning how much the past effects the present. Because of you, I'm working to heal from
             the past and to create a future that allows you to be the carefree and liberated child I didn't get to be. You are
             forcing me to be the change I wish to see. I pray the world is a different place when you're my age and I hope I
             had something to do with that. You keep me hopeful and continue to show me how I can be a better person            
​           every day. Mama loves you so much and I'm blessed to have you in my life.   Xoxo,  Mama Wisdom Keepers . Sacred Places . foodways, food sovereignty . waterways .
Ed Scott. (1922–2015) Catfish farmer “If you put your hand and heart to anything you want to do, you can do it.” This was Ed Scott’s mantra and the key to his success as the first African American entrepreneur and business owner in the Mississippi Delta catfish farming and processing industry. Ed Scott and His Catfish. (Gravy Southern Foodways Alliance)
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  • The Mississippi Blues Trail  Experience the Blues where they were born.
  • List of Blues Trail Markers  especially see the events calendar for the region.  The Mississippi Blues Trail markers tell stories through words and images of bluesmen and women and how the places where they lived and the times in which they existed–and continue to exist–influenced their music. The sites run the gamut from city streets to cotton fields, train depots to cemeteries, and clubs to churches. We have a lot to share, and it's just down the Mississippi Blues Trail.​
  • Mississippi Blues Trail 200 on Spotify
  • Mississippi State of Blues is the latest bookby Ken Murphy, whose work was previously collected in the coffee table books Mississippi and My South Coast Home. The result of a three-year collaboration between Murphy and Oxford-based blues writer Scott Barretta, the book offers an assessment in both image and prose of the way blues exists and persists in the in 21st century. It offers a refreshingly new look at the world of Mississippi blues, capturing both traditional imagery and modern expressions of blues tourism via Murphy's characteristically highly detailed and panoramic full color images.
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Foodways and Waterways
Ed Scott. (1922–2015) Catfish farmer
​https://mississippiencyclopedia.org/entries/ed-scott/
foodways and waterways
Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi https://southernstudies.olemiss.edu/about/
In 100 Years, 1 Million Black Families Have Been Ripped From Their Farms​
NPR On Point August 15, 2019
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/15/black-land-robbery-atlantic-mississippi-delta-farms-vann-newkirk?fbclid=IwAR3Mw337Q1phIEHM3YtbXyq-cLdvVSkJDYJk9OLFe6FLSsFEKTK3SBvoQA0
when I was white
Perspective. An African American Woman Preparing to Take the Civil Rights Historic Journey  Christie Hardwick
Inspiration Gatherings https://www.inspirationgatherings.org/about-1
Oseola McCarty​https://www.philanthropyroundtable.org/almanac/people/hall-of-fame/detail/oseola-mccarty
Black Vote Mississippi
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Digital Archives
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History was founded in 1902. A comprehensive historical agency, the department collects, preserves, and provides access to the archival resources of the state, administers museums and historic sites, and oversees statewide programs for historic preservation, government records management, and publications.
Roadside America - The Great River Road
The Great River Road is a 2,069-mile route that runs north-south on both sides of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. Along the way the route passes through ten states: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Tennessee and Wisconsin. The Great river Road is not a single route but a designated scenic byway that passes over many federal, state, county and municipal roads and streets. In some areas it shares the route with other scenic byways.

Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth), a digital publishing initiative sponsored by the University Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides access to digitized primary materials that offer Southern perspectives on American history and culture. It supplies teachers, students, and researchers at every educational level with a wide array of titles they can use for reference, studying, teaching, and research.

The Civil Rights Movement

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum shares the stories of a Mississippi movement that changed the nation. The museum promotes a greater understanding of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and its impact by highlighting the strength and sacrifices of its peoples.
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The Green Book: The Black Travelers’ Guide to Jim Crow America by Victor H. Green - 1940, 1954 and 1963-1964 International Facsimile Editions.  This is a take along guide to experience places in Black history along your route - if they're still there.  Some are.  See the Mississippi section of The Green Book, and The Mississippi Blues Trail.  
In the segregated US of the mid-twentieth century, African-American travelers could have a hard time finding towns where they were legally allowed to stay at night and hotels, restaurants, and service stations willing to serve them. In 1936, Victor Hugo Green published the first annual volume of The Negro Motorist Green-Book, later renamed The Negro Travelers' Green Book.   SEE more at “The Green Book: The Black Travelers' Guide to Jim Crow America.” (Andrews, Evan.), and Ruth and the Green Book, by Victor H. Green
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PBS  Black Culture Connection   Explore the Birmingham Campaign
       In the spring of 1963, activists in Birmingham, Alabama launched one of the most influential campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement: Project C, better known as The Birmingham Campaign. It would be the beginning of a series of lunch counter sit-ins, marches on City Hall and boycotts on downtown merchants to protest segregation laws in the city.
       Over the next couple months, the peaceful demonstrations would be met with violent attacks using high-pressure fire hoses and police dogs on men, women and children alike -- producing some of the most iconic and troubling images of the Civil Rights Movement. President John F. Kennedy would later say, "The events in Birmingham... have so increased the cries for equality that no city or state or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them." It is considered one of the major turning points in the Civil Rights Movement and the "beginning of the end" of a centuries-long struggle for freedom. (“The Birmingham Campaign.” PBS)
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Freedom Riders    THREATENED. ATTACKED. JAILED. COULD YOU GET ON THE BUS?
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE  AIRED MAY 16, 2011
"Freedom Riders is...story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. From May until November 1961, more than 400 black and white Americans risked their lives—and many endured savage beatings and imprisonment—for simply traveling together on buses and trains as they journeyed through the Deep South. Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in order to test and challenge a segregated interstate travel system, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism." (“Freedom Riders.” PBS.)

THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL - Civil Rights History Project | Digital Collections | Library of Congress
"The murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in 1955 brought nationwide attention to the racial violence and injustice prevalent in Mississippi. While visiting his relatives in Mississippi, Till went to the Bryant store with his cousins, and may have whistled at Carolyn Bryant. Her husband, Roy Bryant, and brother-in-law, J.W. Milam, kidnapped and brutally murdered Till, dumping his body in the Tallahatchie River. The newspaper coverage and murder trial galvanized a generation of young African Americans to join the Civil Rights Movement out of fear that such an incident could happen to friends, family, or even themselves. Many interviewees in the Civil Rights History Project remember how this case deeply affected their lives." (Murder of Emmett Till, The - Civil Rights History Project.) 
​Misery and memory in Glendora, Mississippi: How poverty is reshaping the story of Emmett Till’s murder.   May 9, 2019  
https://theconversation.com/misery-and-memory-in-glendora-mississippi-how-poverty-is-reshaping-the-story-of-emmett-tills-murder-113164

​SEE also: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE   FILM:  THE MURDER OF EMMETT TILL, and SEE the historical features on this website.  (Murder of Emmett Till, The)
THE NATIONAL MEMORIAL FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE, Montgomery Alabama
"The National Memorial for Peace and Justice provides a sacred space for truth-telling and reflection about racial terrorism and its legacy."
The Mississippi Delta National Heritage Area
"There are some places in our nation whose influence on our history and the society we live in has been so pervasive – has become so much a part of who we are –that we don't often think about or recognize their value. The Mississippi Delta is such a place, and its legacy which has given our nation much in terms of music, political action, race relations, literature and foodways."

Secrets of Spanish Florida and Why Slaves Escape to St. Augustine
​​http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/secrets-spanish-florida-synopsis/3626/

The first permanent European settlement in the United States was founded in 1565–two generations before the settlements in Jamestown and Plymouth–not by English Protestants, but by the Spanish and a melting pot of people they brought with them from Africa, Italy, Germany, Ireland and even converted Jews, who integrated almost immediately with the indigenous tribes. Secrets of Spanish Florida – A Secrets of the Dead Special uncovers one story of America’s past that never made it into textbooks. Follow some of America’s leading archaeologists, maritime scientists, and historians as they share the story of Florida’s earliest settlers. It’s a story that has taken more than 450 years to reveal.

Nature and the Outdoors

Timberlake Campgound
Paddlng and fishing - the Pascagoula River (Mississippi's Singing River) the Pelahatchie, and Chickasaw which, according to a local geologist are "the most ecologically sound rivers in the South."

Literature, Arts, Music, and Culture

Mississippi Museum of Art
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T​The Journal of Roots Music 
  • In his 1963 book, “Why We Can’t Wait,” writing about the origins of racism in this country, King strongly condemned the historic injustices inflicted on Native people. He wrote the following:
    “Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. From the sixteenth century forward, blood flowed in battles of racial supremacy. We are perhaps the only nation which tried as a matter of national policy to wipe out its Indigenous population. Moreover, we elevated that tragic experience into a noble crusade. Indeed, even today we have not permitted ourselves to reject or feel remorse for this shameful episode. Our literature, our films, our drama, our folklore all exalt it.”  
    King, Martin Luther, and Reverend Jesse L. Jackson. Why We Can't Wait. New American Library, 2006.

The Seminole Tribe of Florida

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Seminole Tribe of Florida ​
We are a Federally Recognized Indian Tribe.The only Tribe in America who never signed a peace treaty.
https://www.semtribe.com/stof
Oklahoma Historical Society
The Intertribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes: Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek Seminole
http://www.fivecivilizedtribes.org
When we dare to face the cruel social and ecological realities we have been accustomed to, courage is born and powers within us are liberated to reimagine and even, perhaps one day, rebuild a world.  —Joanna Macy, “Entering the Bardo”
RTT's Experiential and Spiritual Lexicon and Precepts of the Social Complex

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