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.

Discusses the lives and football careers of Archie, Cooper, Peyton, and Eli Manning.

Explores new information about the murder of Emmett Till and explores how his death influenced the "Emmett Till generation," black boys and girls Emmett's age who grew up to launch the sit-in campaigns that propelled the civil rights movement into the national spotlight.

In this exotic and erotic interracial love story, an African American businessman falls for a beautiful Indian immigrant, only to encounter shock and outrage from both families.

Lee continues her journey through the parallel world of Nawlins, accompanied by the blues-singing swamp monster Bayou, in a search for Brer Rabbit in order to find her kidnapped friend Lily and save her father from a lynching.

Henry McAllan's wife, Laura, has a hard time adjusting when she moves from the city to a Mississippi farm in 1946. Soon, two brothers-in-arms arrive home from fighting in World War II: Jamie McAllan is charming, handsome, and sensitive to Laura's situation, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers who live on the McAllan farm, tries his best to endure the bigotry he receives now that he is back home.

Discusses the case of the murder of Emmett Till and examines the investigative and forensic methods that crime scene investigators use in such situations.

In the 1800s, a Choctaw girl becomes friends with a slave boy from a plantation across the great river, and when she learns that his family is in trouble, she helps them cross to freedom.

In Clanton, Mississippi, the life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime, until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes justice into his own outraged hands.

Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers as communists.