mississippi

A Chicago born young black man pays the ultimate price for speaking a few words in French to a white women while visiting relatives in Mississippi in the 1950s.

A photographic introduction to the history, geography, industries, wildlife, and sights of Mississippi.

In the summer of 1963, Florence Forrest, the daughter of a burial insurance salesman and the town's baker, crosses the racial divide to spend time with her grandparents' African-American maid, who shares stories of Zenobia, the Queen of Palmyra, and opens Florence's eyes to the brutality of racial inequality.

In the 1960s, the town of Revere, Mississippi, struggles to overcome racial segregation and prejudice, and the death of a white man reveals the town is not as divided as most residents thought, a revelation that has shocking consequences for its most esteemed residents.

Illustrator and journalist Tracy Sugarman describes his experiences reporting on the nearly one thousand students who traveled to the Mississippi Delta in the summer of 1964 as volunteers to help African-American citizens register to vote. Includes a selection of Sugarman's illustrations.

The members of a genteel Southern family are portrayed as petty failures, drunkards, suicides, pathological perverts, and idiots.

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.

The first novel of Faulkner's Snopes trilogy, telling of the arrival of the Snopes family in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi in the aftermath of the Civil War, and of the shady Flem Snopes's swift rise to power in the small town.

Discusses the making of the movie "Ghosts of Mississippi" and examines its historical background: the 1963 assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evans and the conviction thirty years later of Byron de la Beckwith.