mississippi

Fourteen-year-old Sarah Heart describes how her self-absorbed, hypocritical uncle nearly destroys the Mennonite community over which he has become leader.

Recounts the life story of Mississippian Fannie Lou Hamer and of her part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

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.

In southern Mississippi, an African-American father kills the two white men who raped and beat his ten-year-old daughter, and a pair of idealistic but inexperienced young lawyers take the case only to find themselves targets of hatred and bigotry in a racist community.

Ulysses Everett McGill and two fellow convicts escape from their chain gang in rural 1930s Mississippi and have a series of adventures reminiscent of Homer's "Odyssey.".

A boy grows up in the segregated South, experiencing both the love and support of his tightly-knit "colored" community, and the bigotry and intolerance of outsiders.

Describes the brief period of the Reconstruction in Mississippi during which equal rights, economic justice, and black power were realities.