mississippi

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.

Growing up as a Black girl in Mississippi in the 1940s and 1950s.

Racial tensions erupt in Clanton, Mississippi, after African-American Vietnam veteran Carl Lee Hailey kills the white men who raped his ten-year-old daughter and lawyer Jake Brigance tries to get him acquitted.

Simeon Wright, the cousin of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American who was beaten and killed in 1955 for whistling at a white woman, reflects on what it was like to grow up in Mississippi during the 1940s and 1950s, reveals details about the night Emmett was kidnapped, and reflects on how the crime and trial affected his family and the community.

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.