Offers a brief overview of the history, development, economy, landscape, and geography of Mississippi, with information on the state's notable residents, influence on the country's development, traditions, and festivals.
Text and photographs describe Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi covering the state at a glance, places to visit, events, the land and the climate, the history, education, and the people.
Lee Wagstaff, the daughter of a sharecropper in the Depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi, sets off into a dangerous, parallel world, accompanied by the kind, blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in search of her friend Lily Westmoreland who has been kidnapped by the evil Bog--a crime for which Lee's father stands accused.
A bildungsroman of an African-American boy in 1930s-40s Mississippi who experiences the violent consequences of racism and sexual repression while coping with his strained relationship with his father.
A collection of black-and-white photographs taken by author Eudora Welty between the 1930s and 1950s, many of which depict the people of the rural South.
Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi. When the Chicago police come for him, LeRoy must decide if he is going to risk his life testifying.
Billionaire Carl Trudeau, upset over a shocking verdict against his chemical company by a Mississippi jury and convinced that the Supreme Court will not be friendly to his appeal, decides to take the less expensive route of purchasing a seat on the Court by recruiting, financing, manipulating, marketing, and molding an unsuspecting young candidate.
