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.
the rise and ruin of America's most powerful trial lawyer
Wilkie, Curtis
2011
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.
the kids who fought for civil rights in Mississippi
Sugarman, Tracy
2009
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.
A Chicago-born young African-American man pays the ultimate price for speaking a few words in French to a white woman while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.
The shaky marriage between Henry McAllan and his city-bred wife Laura becomes even more unstable when his brother Jamie returns from World War II in 1946 to help work the family's miserable cotton farm in the Mississippi Delta, along with his comrade-in-arms Ronsel Jackson, the oldest son of local sharecroppers, who soon learns that his heroics in battle mean nothing in the Jim Crow south.
The first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, telling of the arrival of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi in the aftermath of the Civil War, and of the shady Flem Snopes's swift rise to power in the small town.
Describes the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Traces the history of this ancient trail used originally by Native Americans, describes its use by travelers returning north from New Orleans, and includes information about it as a national reserve.
