mississippi

A detailed history of the attempt in 1964 to register African-Americans in Mississippi and the over seven hundred college students from both southern and northern schools who descended upon the state to help in the cause for freedom and civil rights.

A portrait of a large Southern family living on their plantation in the Mississippi delta land in 1923.

Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.

Examines the trials of the men accused of murdering three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964, including the Supreme Court decision to try the defendants in a federal rather than a state court and the final verdicts which marked the first time, in Mississippi, that a jury convicted white men for killing African Americans or civil rights workers.

Presents volume four of an eight-volume series on political assassinations, and chronicles the life of civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, the events that led to his murder in 1963 by White Supremacist Byron De La Beckwith, and the trial and conviction that took place thirty years later.

The personal story of a young African-American woman growing up in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi.

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.

A retelling of the legend of how American president Theodore Roosevelt inspired the making of the first stuffed toy bear.

Text and photographs focus on the events surrounding James Meredith's efforts to be allowed to attend the University of Mississippi in 1962.

Text and accompanying photographs present a biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.