mississippi

Jesmyn Ward, a prize-winning author, delves into her upbringing in rural Mississippi and examines how poverty and racism contributed to the deaths of five young men in her life.

A woman who has left the South returns when her father is dying. After his death, she and her silly young stepmother go back to the small Mississippi town where she grew up.

Lee Wagstaff, the daughter of a sharecropper in the Depression-era town of Charon, Mississippi, sets off into a dangerous, parallel world, accompanied by the kind, blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in search of her friend Lily Westmoreland who has been kidnapped by the evil Bog--a crime for which Lee's father stands accused.

A bildungsroman of an African-American boy in 1930s-40s Mississippi who experiences the violent consequences of racism and sexual repression while coping with his strained relationship with his father.

Collection of black-and-white photographs taken in Mississippi during the depression.

A Harvard freshman pieces together the strange story of a southern tragedy involving an ambitious planter who settled in Mississippi in 1833.

The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.

Chronicles the growth of the blues in the Mississippi Delta Region and offers insight into its importance in African-American culture.

Describes how black guide Holt Collier's plea for Teddy Roosevelt to spare the life of a bear led to the creation of the teddy bear.