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The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
The Civil War in Mississippi
Major Campaigns and Battles
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
From the first Union attack on Vicksburg in the spring of 1862 through Benjamin Grierson's last raid through Mississippi in late 1864 and early 1865, this book traces the campaigns, fighting, and causes and effects of armed conflict in central and North Mississippi, where major campaigns were waged...
Joe T. Patterson and the White South's Dilemma
Evolving Resistance to Black Advancement
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
As Mississippi's attorney general from 1956 to 1969, Joe T. Patterson led the legal defense for Jim Crow in the state. He was inaugurated for his first term two months before the launch of the Sovereignty Commission--charged "to protect the sovereignty of Mississippi from encroachment thereon...
Ethnic Heritage in Mississippi
The Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2012
Throughout its history, Mississippi has seen a small, steady stream of immigrants, and those identities--sometimes submerged, sometimes hidden--have helped shape the state in important ways. Amid renewed interest in identity, the Mississippi Humanities Council has commissioned a companion volume to...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Contributions by Keith A. Baca, Jeffrey P. Brain, Samuel O. Brookes, Ian W. Brown, Philip J. Carr, Jessica Crawford, Patricia Galloway, Alison M. Hadley, Christopher T. Hays, Edward R. Henry, Cliff Jenkins, Jay K. Johnson, Evan Peacock, Janet Rafferty, Maria Schleidt, Mary Evelyn Starr, James B. Stoltman,...
Beyond Control
The Mississippi River’s New Channel to the Gulf of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures. During the great flood of 1973, the current scoured a hole beneath the main structure near Baton Rouge and enlarged a pre-existing football-field-size crater. That night...
David L. Jordan
From the Mississippi Cotton Fields to the State Senate, a Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
In David L. Jordan's earliest memories, he is lying in the fields, the black earth beneath him and the sky and sun above, filtered through the leaves of the cotton plants. The youngest of five children in a family of sharecroppers, he was nursed and grew up in those fields, joining his family in their...
Operation Pretense
The FBI's Sting on County Corruption in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2003
During the 1980s fifty-seven of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors from twenty-six of the state's eighty-two counties were charged with corruption. The FBI's ploy to catch the criminals was code-named Operation Pretense. Ingenious undercover investigation exposed the supervisors' wide-scaled...
Mississippi Harvest
Lumbering in the Longleaf Pine Belt, 1840-1915
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
In this classic work of Mississippi history, Nollie W. Hickman relates the felling of great forests of longleaf pine in a southern state where lumbering became a mighty industry.Mississippi Harvest records the arduous transportation of logs to the mills, at first by oxcart and water and later by rail....
Samuel M. Gore
Blessed with Tired Hands
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Born in Coolidge, Texas, Samuel Marshall Gore was the sixth of ten children born to a Baptist preacher and a mother described as “an angel.” From early childhood, Samuel Gore remembers enjoying making things, and gives credit to his mother and grandmother for his interest in art. Gore went on...
Mississippi John Hurt
His Life, His Times, His Blues
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
When Mississippi John Hurt (1892-1966) was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At seventy-one he moved to Washington, D.C., from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, as hundreds of volunteers prepared for the 1964 Freedom Summer Project, the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) compiled hundreds of statements from activists and everyday citizens who endured police abuse and vigilante violence. Fifty-seven...
James Meredith and the Ole Miss Riot
A Soldier's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
In September 1962, James Meredith became the first African American admitted to the University of Mississippi. A milestone in the civil rights movement, his admission triggered a riot spurred by a mob of three thousand whites from across the South and all but officially stoked by the state's segregationist...
Delta Epiphany
Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018
In April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother to...