Misisipi

Take a drive through the Mississippi Delta today and you'll find a landscape dotted with memorials to major figures and events from the civil rights movement. Perhaps the most chilling are those devoted to the murder of Emmett Till, a tragedy of hate and injustice....

This biography of a seminal civil rights leader draws on personal interviews from Evers's loved ones and fellow activists to elucidate Evers as an individual, leader, husband, brother, and father....

From the award-winning author of All Her Little Secrets comes yet another gripping, suspenseful novel where, after the murder of a white man in Jim Crow Mississippi, two Black sisters run away to different parts of the country....

Fannie Lou Hamer stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s Black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression....

Detailed in this book is the hard reality of slavery in Mississippi's antebellum world is strikingly different from the one of popular myth....

Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a Black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella’s community to carry out some research....

In 1968, during Albert Lepard's fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler from his family's farm. Three decades later, Boteler began researching his kidnapper's sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred....

Professor Olive Twist has come to Zinnia, Mississippi, to study a mysterious grave wherein lies the Lady in Red, a perfectly preserved and stunningly beautiful but unnamed and unclaimed body....

Barksdale’s Charge describes the exact moment when the Confederacy reached its zenith, and the soldiers of the Northern states just barely succeeded in retaining their perfect Union....

Can a person be tried more than once for the same crime in the United States? Under usual circumstances, no. But in Mississippi, one man was tried six times for the same brutal crime - and his ordeal still hasn’t ended....

The greatest Southern storyteller of our time, New York Times bestselling author Rick Bragg, tracks down the greatest rock and roller of all time, Jerry Lee Lewis....

The gripping story of 200 freed Mississippi slaves who sailed to Liberia to build a new colony - where the colonists' repression of the native tribes would beget a tragic cycle of violence....

Haynes details critical events in Mississippi's rich history, such as ongoing border violence, the arrest of infamous traitor Aaron Burr, and the bloody Creek War....

More Land Buying Tips is just that...more! The original Land Buying Tips book was popular, so we did it again with different contributors and topics....

In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women - one Black, one White - fight for their families' survival....

Hollywood descends on Holly Springs, and soon it’s up to the Divas to keep the stars from falling like magnolia blooms in a trailer-park tornado....

In this fresh and powerful work of environmental history, Martin Doyle explores how rivers have often been the source of arguments at the heart of the American experiment....

Beyond Control reveals the Mississippi as a waterway of change, unnaturally confined by ever-larger levees and control structures....

Written in a voice that’s alternately humorous, lacerating, and wise, Long Division features two interwoven stories. In the first, it’s 2013: after an on-stage meltdown during a nationally televised quiz contest, fourteen-year-old Citoyen “City” Coldson becomes an overnight YouTube celebrity.

Explorers, soldiers, and settlers of African-American heritage comprise an unfamiliar story to most students of American history....