Hakutulokset: mississippi
Etsimme kuitenkin kirjoja hakusanalla mississippi , mikä antoiyhteensä 19 hakutulosta
Black Life on the Mississippi
All along the Mississippi--on country plantation landings, urban levees and quays, and the decks of steamboats--nineteenth-century African Americans worked and fought for their …
Mississippi Verse
This volume contains poems by: Almond, Austin, Gaine, Baringer, Blundell, Brackin, Braswell, Brown, Burnett, Cameron, Champenois, Clark, Cooper, Creekmore, Faulkner, Gibson, …
American Dreams in Mississippi
The dreams of abundance, choice, and novelty that have fueled the growth of consumer culture in the United States would seem to have little place in the history of Mississippi--a …
From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse
In the years immediately following the Civil War--the formative years for an emerging society of freed African Americans in Mississippi--there was much debate over the general …
I Don't Like the Blues
How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to his home state to learn about …
Let the People Decide
In the middle of the Mississippi Delta lies rural, black-majority Sunflower County. J. Todd Moye examines the social histories of civil rights and white resistance movements in …
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, …
Chance for Change
In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child Development Group of Mississippi …
Civil Rights, Culture Wars
Just as Mississippi whites in the 1950s and 1960s had fought to maintain school segregation, they battled in the 1970s to control the school curriculum. Educators faced a crucial …