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Delta State’s Delta Center provides Delta tours to Rutgers and Boston College students

By January 13, 2010General

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The Delta State University Delta Center for Culture and Learning recently provided heritage tours to visiting university students from Rutgers University in New Jersey and Boston College.  Both groups were engaged in a week of service learning and were based primarily in the Clarksdale area. 

 
Some of the students came to work with Teach For America in Clarksdale and Jonestown. The heritage tour included stops on the Delta State campus; Dockery Farms, the birthplace of the Blues; the Ruleville grave of civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer; historic Mound Bayou; and Po’ Monkey’s Lounge. 
 
Both groups had their pictures taken in front of the Mississippi Blues Heritage Trail marker at Dockery Farms.