Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta is a region in the northwest of the state of Mississippi in the southern United States, located between the Mississippi and Yazoo rivers. Prior to the American Civil War of 1861–65, many cotton plantations, which depended on slave labor, developed in the region. In 1890, a new state constitution disenfranchised African American people, and the political exclusion of African American people was maintained in the region until the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.