1. VALERIE GRIM is an associate professor of Afro-American Studies at Indiana University-Bloomington. She has published numerous articles, essays, and book chapters on rural African Americans in the South during the twentieth century. She is currently completing a manuscript on African American rural life and culture in the Yazoo Mississippi Delta, 1920-2000.
2. The author wishes to thank Drr Anne Effland, Economic Research Service, USDA, and Drr William R. Effland, Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA, for assistance in providing technical and historical information on the development of supplemental irrigation materials concerning the Southeastt
3. 1 Scholarship on the history of irrigation developments in the West, East, and Midwest is voluminous, with the majority of attention focusing on the West because this region has led the way in helping farmers understand how they, the federal government, and private corporations can work together to manage and control water needs. See Ira G. Clark, Water in New Mexico: A History of Its Management and Use (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1987); Robert G. Dunbar, Forging New Rights in Western Waters (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1983);
4. Mary W. M. Hargreaves, Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990 (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,