REEL SOUTH

It’s in the Voices

By Field Humphrey

Clinton Bagley revisits his first interview from Mississippi’s Washington County Oral History Program. Amongst the files and folders, one piece of material sticks out, the catalyst for the whole program. In a conversation he recorded in 1975 with Daisy Greene, a retired school teacher from his hometown of Greenville, Mississippi, we learn about a devastating flood in 1927, often cruel systems of oppression, and the disparate voices that define the Delta.