The machines may have taken the work, the cotton may have faded into memory, but the Delta remains—its story etched into the soil, its music carried far far beyond its borders in the music and history of its people.

Image: Wolcott, Marion Post, photographer. Saturday afternoon, Clarksdale, Mississippi Delta, Mississippi. Mississippi Clarksdale United States Mississippi Delta, 1939. Fall?. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017755112/.

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