mississippi

Presents the script of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about a wealthy Southern family and the secrets that are revealed when they all gather to celebrate Big Daddy's birthday.

Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair, and is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.

A two-act play which Tennessee Williams called a "Southern gothic spook sonata," in which Cornelius McCorkle of Pascagoula, Mississippi, is searching for a large amount of moonshine money that his wife Bella has hidden, on the stormy Christmas night they returned from their eldest son's funeral.

Presents the collected short stories of twentieth-century American writer Eudora Welty, and includes a selection of nine literary and personal essays, as well as a memoir of the author's childhood.

The Memphis underworld kidnaps Temple Drake, a Mississippi debutante who is not as innocent as might be expected.

A collection of essays, lectures, and personal recollections in which Eudora Welty explores the writings and literary impact of William Faulkner.

A portrait of a large Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi delta land in 1923.

An African-American family living in Mississippi during the Depression of the 1930s is faced with prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.

Lee Cotton, the white-skinned, flaxen-haired son of a Scandinavian father and African-American mother, born in Mississippi in 1950, grows up testing the limits of racism, and his life becomes even more complicated by a freak accident, coupled with inventive surgery, that forces him to change his identity once again.

Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.