Emmett's mother was born in the small Delta town of Webb, Mississippi.

No such potions can stop the mosquitoes in the tattered Delta town of Rosedale, Miss.

The Delta towns, and even Rangoon, came under threat.

One good cotton crop alone won't cure the economic disarray of the Delta towns.

As well as most of the nobility from all the major Delta towns.

This was a revolutionary event for the small rural Delta town, where whites had traditionally expected, and generally received, strict deference from the black majority.

Jonestown's cottonseed oil mill has survived the many mill closings in other Delta towns.

Often, economists and sociologists suggest that Delta towns once rooted in agriculture have outlived their purpose with the mechanization of farming.

The Selfs, who have three children, aged 16, 12 and 9, live in the small Delta town of Marks, barely 40 miles away.

Bartley is a Delta town, and in this phase of its existence, that means poor.