Joe Christmas, who appears to be white but is part African-American, kills Joanna Burden, a spinster with whom he has had an affair. He is captured, castrated, and killed by outraged townspeople.
Describes the struggle for civil rights for African-Americans in Mississippi, from the time of slavery to the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965.
Set in the 1930s in a small Mississippi town the story is about racism and about a ten-year-old boy who is convicted of and executed for murdering a white girl.
Examines the life of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, discussing his youth and education, his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his assassination in 1963.
Presents a brief biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, civil rights activits and leader, and includes information on her childhood, her achievements, and her legacy.
Half-dog, half porcupine in appearance, Bristle Face becomes an outstanding hunting dog and a good friend of the fourteen-year-old orphan boy who adopts him.
Each letter of the alphabet is represented by some historical, geographical, or cultural fact about Mississippi, accompanied by objects to find in the illustrations.
In 1941 a black youth, sadistically teased by two white boys in rural Mississippi, severely injures one of them with a tire iron and enlists Cassie's help in trying to flee the state.
In 1862, after Union forces expel Hannah's family from Holly Springs, Mississippi, because they are Jews, Hannah reexamines her views regarding slavery and the war.
