mississippi

The life of Jewel Hilburn, a mother living with her husband and children in the backwoods of Mississippi in 1943, undergoes a drastic change when her sixth child, Brenda Kay, is born without the gift of common sense.

Tonya Hailey is brutally raped, beaten and left for dead by two drunken and remorseless men. After they are caught, Tonya's father shoots them and then must stand trial.

Harvard freshman Quentin Compson tries to piece together the strange story of Thomas Sutpen, an ambitious planter whose plans to build a dynasty in Mississippi in 1833 go tragically wrong.

Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.

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.

A history of the early civil rights movement in the South. Includes interviews with movement participants.

Chronicles the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, discussing her role as a civil rights leader, and detailing her accomplishments with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, her speech before the Credentials Committee, and her efforts to improve the rights of African-Americans throughout the nation.

The story of a dog and his closest companion, the author, during their growing years in a small town in Mississippi.

A portrait of largely forgotten civil rights workers who forged racial change despite violence and murder.