mississippi

In Mississippi in 1955, a sixteen-year-old finds himself at odds with his grandfather over issues surrounding the kidnapping and murder of a fourteen-year-old African-American from Chicago.

For most boys in a small Mississippi town, the biggest concern one hot summer is whether their annual July 4th baseball game will be cancelled due to their county's anniversary pageant, but after the death of the old man to whom twelve-year-old star pitcher House Jackson has been secretly reading for a year, House uncovers secrets about the man and the history of baseball in Aurora County that could fix everything.

Martha Tom knows better than to cross the Bok Chitto River to pick blackberries. The Bok Chitto is the only border between her town in the Choctaw Nation and the slave-owning plantation in Mississippi territory. The slave owners could catch her, too. What was she thinking? But crossing the river brings a surprise friendship with Lil Mo, a boy who is enslaved on the other side.

"The son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living in the wilderness and tries to help him without giving away his secret"--Provided by publisher.

Explores new information about the murder of Emmett Till and explores how his death influenced the "Emmett Till generation," black boys and girls Emmett's age who grew up to launch the sit-in campaigns that propelled the civil rights movement into the national spotlight.

Lee continues her journey through the parallel world of Nawlins, accompanied by the blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in a search for Brer Rabbit in order to find her kidnapped friend Lily and save her father from a lynching.

Henry McAllan's wife, Laura, has a hard time adjusting when she moves from the city to a Mississippi farm in 1946. Soon, two brothers-in-arms arrive home from fighting in World War II: Jamie McAllan is charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's situation, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, tries his best to endure the bigotry he receives now that he is back home.

Presents the original text and a critical examination of William Faulker's "The Sound and The Fury" with end notes designed to assist the reader with obscure language and allusions. Contains appendix with background information and historical context.

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.