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Collection Title<\/b>: The Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission Papers\"\"<\/p>\n

Collection Number:<\/b> M040<\/p>\n

Inclusive Dates:<\/b> 1986-1991<\/p>\n

Bulk Dates:<\/b> 1989-1990<\/p>\n

Volume:<\/b> 4 cu. ft.<\/p>\n

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Biographical \/Historical Sketch:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n

The states of Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas together make up the Mississippi River Delta. They also make up one of the most impoverished areas of the country. For decades hardship, poverty, and unemployment have ravaged it. The Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission (LMDDC) was a group created by Congress in 1989 with the soul purpose of discovering the problems that kept the Mississippi Delta from achieving any type of real status within the USA, and to come up with solutions to that end. They conducted their research by interviewing people who had spent their lives here, and had witnessed first hand what life in this area of the world is like, as well interest groups such as the Tennessee Valley Authority,
\nand the Valley Resource Center. The commission itself lasted eighteen months, and cost 3 million dollars to keep up and running, largely
\ndue to the amount of paper required for press releases, especially with the release of its 186page final report that it presented to the White
\nHouse on May14, 1990. It also released 500 other copies within a very short time.<\/p>\n

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Scope and Content:<\/b><\/u><\/p>\n

The collection is divided into three series:
\n1. Work Papers (Box 1-3)
\n2. Reports (Box 3-4)
\n3. News Clippings (Box 4)<\/p>\n

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The first series consists of a large variety of papers that were used and exchanged during the time of the commission\u2019s duration. These papers contain memos, personal correspondence reports to superiors, and various other such working papers. Most of them deal with the inner workings of the commission.<\/p>\n

The second series consists of reports that were prepared by the commission, and released to the public, as well as reports that were prepared for the LMDDC to read by other groups, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority, and the Valley Resource Center. These reports helped to give insight to the commissioners, and help them better understand what the people of this area really felt.<\/p>\n

The final series consists of a variety of newspaper clippings of press releases that were periodically put into mainly local publication, but some even made it as high up as The Wall Street Journal. There were roughly five or six articles written over about a two-year period. These were mainly found in the Memphis Commercial appeal, and the Jackson Clarion Ledger. These articles contain mainly statistical information, and compliant ads.<\/p>\n

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Lower Mississippi Delta Development Commission Papers Box Inventory<\/b>
\nBox 1 Files<\/u><\/strong>
\n1. Alternative Crop Production & Marketing Strategies for Farmers in the LMD
\n2. Alternative Food and Sustainable Resources
\n3. Appendix II: The Plan of Work
\n4. Baton Rouge Hearings
\n5. Beverly Bowman
\n6. 1990 Bill\/Options
\n7. Bob Hoppe USDA\/ERS
\n8. \u201cBody of a Nation\u201d
\n9. Booker T. Washington Foundation Final Report
\n10. Commissioners and Alternates
\n11. Conference on LMD in Memphis Feb 21-23 1990
\n12. Confidential
\n13. Consolidated Federal Funds Report
\n14. CRS Report for Congress
\n15. Delta Delegation
\n16. Delta Initiatives Directory
\n17. Delta Initiatives
\n18. D-Base IV
\n19. Division Handbook 1 of 2
\n20. Division Handbook 2 of 2
\n21. Economic Development
\n22. Economic Minerals in the LMD Region
\n23. Economic Trends and Forecasts of the Western and MS subregions
\n24. Education and Economic Development
\n25. Education #215
\n26. The Effectiveness of Small Businesses and Resources in LMD
\n27. Enhancing Regional Value from MSD Primary Products
\n28. Entreprenuership and Small Business Development
\n29. Expanding Export Industry Employment in LMD
\n30. Expanding Export Industry Employment in LMD
\n31. Federal Agencies
\n32. Foundations
\n33. The Future Role of Utilities in Economic Development
\n34. Gov\u2019t Affairs Intern
\n35. Higher Education and Economic Development in the Delta
\n36. Ideas
\n37. Illinois Public Hearing<\/p>\n

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Box 2 Files<\/u><\/strong>
\n38. Interstate Cooperation, Regionalism, Economic Development in the Delta
\n39. Kentucky Public Hearing
\n40. LA Human Resources
\n41. Labor Management Cooperation Model
\n42. LMD Economic Development Finance \u201cA Proposal for a Delta Bank\u201d
\n43. Louisiana Public Hearing 1 of 5
\n44. Louisiana Public Hearing
\n45. Louisiana Public Hearing
\n48. Louisiana Public Hearing
\n49. Louisiana Public Hearing
\n50. Master Calendar
\n51. Missouri Public Hearing
\n52. Monthly Work Plans
\n53. Morality Profile for LMD Region
\n54. Natural Resource Development
\n55. News Clippings
\n56. News Clips
\n57. Oversight Committees
\n58. Portfolio Managers
\n58. Preserving and Promoting our Heritage
\n59. Preserving and Promoting our Heritage
\n60. Proceedings from conference on: Economics, Energy, and Environment in LMD.
\n61. Program Summaries
\n62. Public Management Expertise in Delta & Delta Development
\n63. Race Relations
\n64. Re-Alignment 10\/30\/89
\n65. Recommendations from Public Hearings and Research Contacts 1 of 2
\n66. Recommendations from Public Hearings and Research Contacts 2 of 2
\n69. Regional Economic Development Policies and Programs in U.S.
\n70. Report to LMDDC by Bolivar County Chamber of Commerce
\n71. Report to LMDDC from Targeted Research Associates
\n72. Research Contracts<\/p>\n

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Box 3 Files<\/u><\/strong>
\n72. Resource Conservation Development Conversation
\n73. River Engineering on the Rhine, Experiences from Upstream
\n74. Role of the Church in Economic Development
\n75. Role of Delta State
\n76. Rural Housing Needs in LMD
\n77. Rural Solid Waste Crisis<\/p>\n

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