Tonya Hailey is brutally raped, beaten and left for dead by two drunken and remorseless men. After they are caught, Tonya's father shoots them and then must stand trial.
Harvard freshman Quentin Compson tries to piece together the strange story of Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter whose plans to build a dynasty in Mississippi in 1833 go tragically wrong.
Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
A textbook which traces the history of Mississippi from prehistoric times until today, covering all areas of social life and concentrating on recent developments, especially the civil rights struggle and the search for social justice.
When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
Provides information about the geography, history, government, economy, people, and places of Mississippi, and includes photographs, maps, sidebars, a time line, an almanac of state facts, and a gallery of famous Mississippians.
the murder of Medgar Evers, the trials of Byron de la Beckwith, and the haunting of the new South
Vollers, Maryanne
1995
Describes the three decade process to finally convict the instigator of the assassination of Medgar Evers. In bringing white supremist Beckwith to justice the state of Mississippi faced its violent past and helped begin the journey of an Old South to the New.
A collection of poems that pays tribute to the history of the American South and to the Native Guard, one of the first African-American regiments in service during the Civil War.
