From the publisher’s description:
Terrorism, black poverty, and economic exploitation produced a condition of collective trauma and social suffering for thousands of black Deltans in the Twentieth Century. Based on oral histories with African American activists and community leaders, this work reveals the impact of that oppression.
Rogers, Kim Lacy (NHC Fellow, 1999–00). Life and Death in the Delta: African American Narratives of Violence, Resilience, and Social Change. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 9781403960368.