mississippi

Presents the story of Fannie Lou Hamer and chronicles her life and involvement in the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.

Frank Russell, known as Shanks, wishes he could have gone with his father and brother to fight for Mississippi and the Confederacy, but his experiences with the war and his changing relationship with the family slave, Buck, change his thinking.

Louisiana waitress Sookie Stackhouse is enraged to learn that her vampire lover Bill has betrayed her with his vampire ex-girlfriend, but when his boss tells her that Bill is missing and likely in danger, she finds that she still cares and enters a bizarre Mississippi club scene frequented by werewolves to try to find him.

A Chicago born young black man pays the ultimate price for speaking a few words in French to a white women while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.

An account of the author's year spent inside the "war room" of Ole Miss head coach Ed Orgeron offers a close-up view of events leading up to National Signing Day 2007, when Orgeron and his Ole Miss staff picked twenty-five players from a list of one thousand names.

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

The author discusses the different stages of her life, beginning with her childhood in the segregated Deep South in the 1940s, and tells of her criminal activities, her involvement with the Civil Rights Movement, and her eventual pursuit of a Ph.D.

Traces the rise and fall of billionaire lawyer Dickie Scruggs, documenting how he made his fortune through class-action lawsuits directed at the tobacco and asbestos industries before his conviction for conspiring to bribe a Mississippi state judge.

Illustrator and journalist Tracy Sugarman describes his experiences reporting on the nearly one thousand students who traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1964 as volunteers to help African-American citizens register to vote. Includes a selection of Sugarman's illustrations.