mississippi black history makers Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/mississippi-black-history-makers Wed, 25 May 2016 16:36:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 Mississippi cultural contributions http://toursmaps.com/mississippi-cultural-contributions.html http://toursmaps.com/mississippi-cultural-contributions.html#respond Fri, 03 Jun 2016 12:10:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=204609 Latino culture in Mississippi has been both visible and invisible, mainstream and separate from the culture of white and black Mississippians. The signature Mississippi hot tamale is perhaps the best-known cultural contribution of Latinos to the state. Though theories on the tamale’s arrival to Mississippi abound, food historians suggest that tamales became popular in the 1920s as a result of the influx of Mexican migrant workers to the area. Memories of tamales’ presence in the Delta date back to the 1910s, and since then there has been a dynamic relationship between the Delta’s Mexican and non-Mexican tamale producers. Because the

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