1. Louisiana Cotton Plantation Region / 7
2. Mississippi Cotton Plantation Region / 8
3. Alabama Cotton Plantation Region / 9
Map prepared by the Citizens’ Council accompanying an article in the Citizen, May 1962 / 37
Pamphlet inviting poor people to a conference at the Delta Ministry’s headquarters in Mt. Beulah, January 1966 / 49
Cartoon noting the federal government’s shift in focus away from the War on Poverty to the Vietnam War, November 1967 / 83
Poster encouraging people to form cooperatives, late 1960s / 96
President Richard Nixon meeting with advisers in the Oval Office, 13 March 1970 / 126
Fund-raising advertisement from an Emergency Land Fund newsletter, December 1979 / 163
Cartoon on President Ronald Reagan’s budget cuts, early 1980s / 180
1. Agricultural and nonagricultural employment in the plantation counties, 1950–1990 / 227
2. Black unemployment and poverty rates in the plantation counties, 1950–1990 / 229