mississippi

In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for that crime, Danny Padgitt, son of Clanton's most brutally powerful family, is paroled and jury members start turning up dead.

Presents volume four of an eight-volume series on political assassinations, and chronicles the life of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, the events that led to his murder in 1963 by White Supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, and the trial and conviction that took place thirty years later.

The personal story of a young African-American woman growing up in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi.

Takes a photo-illustrated look at Mississippi's history, land, people, government, economy, and things to see and do, and provides a time line, a glossary, and a further reading list.

Text and photographs focus on the events surrounding James Meredith's efforts to be allowed to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Text and accompanying photographs present a biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.

Discusses the geographical, historical, and cultural aspects of Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, using maps, illustrated fact spreads, and other illustrated material to highlight the land, history, and people of each individual state.

Amidst the economic depression and the racial tension of the 1930s, a boy discovers a horrible secret of his father's involvement in the Ku Klux Klan.

Grandma tells the story about her first trip alone into town during the days when segregation still existed in Mississippi.

Discusses the geographic features, history, government, people, achievements, and attractions of the state whose name means "big river.".