Greenwood Mississippi Memories
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Release | : 2015-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780989750844 |
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Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
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Author | : Mary Carol Miller |
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Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780989750806 |
A photographic history of Greenwood Mississippi from 1834 to the 1930s. Never-before-published archival photos and extensive research combine to highlight the history of this Mississippi Delta town.
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2014-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780989750813 |
Author | : Donny Whitehead |
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Release | : 2014-05-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780989750820 |
Author | : Donny Whitehead |
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Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014-10-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780989750837 |
Author | : Mississippi Memories |
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Release | : 1997 |
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Author | : Donny Whitehead |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738567860 |
Greenwood grew from a ramshackle cotton-shipping outpost on the edge of the untamed Delta into the "Cotton Capital of the World." The saloons and shops along Front Street gave way to a vibrant downtown and fine residential districts. As cotton's post-Civil War resurgence gained steam, the burgeoning economy of Greenwood was reflected in such architectural masterpieces as the Leflore County Courthouse, the First Methodist Church, the old Greenwood High School, Fountain's Store, and the Keesler Bridge. Postcard photographers set up their cameras to capture the buildings and activities of this fascinating Yazoo River town for posterity. Many long-vanished structures and old favorites that have been revitalized come to life in Postcard History Series: Greenwood.
Author | : Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, Miss.) |
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Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Mississippi |
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Author | : Beverly Lowry |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2023-08-01 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1984898361 |
The stunning true story of a murder that rocked the Mississippi Delta and forever shaped one author’s life and perception of home. “Mix together a bloody murder in a privileged white family, a false accusation against a Black man, a suspicious town, a sensational trial with colorful lawyers, and a punishment that didn’t fit the crime, and you have the best of southern gothic fiction. But the very best part is that the story is true.” —John Grisham In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms. Her daughter, Ruth Dickins, was the only other person in the house. She told authorities a Black man she didn’t recognize had fled the scene, but no evidence of the man's presence was uncovered. When Dickins herself was convicted and sentenced to life in prison, the community exploded. Petitions pleading for her release were drafted, signed, and circulated, and after only six years, the governor of Mississippi granted Ruth Dickins an indefinite suspension of her sentence and she was set free. In Deer Creek Drive, Beverly Lowry—who was ten at the time of the murder and lived mere miles from the Thompsons’ home—tells a story of white privilege that still has ramifications today, and reflects on the brutal crime, its aftermath, and the ways it clarified her own upbringing in Mississippi.
Author | : Charline R. McCord |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2010-09-27 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1628467878 |
This beautiful book of thirty-eight essays, illustrated by Mississippi's premier watercolorist Wyatt Waters, will ring true with treasured recollections of Christmases past. Remember the Christmas it snowed on the Mississippi Coast? Glen Allison recalls that miracle. Richard Ford and Waters tell exactly what they felt when they first laid eyes on a bicycle left under the tree by Santa Claus. These Mississippians celebrate Christmas pageants, the decorating, the family dinners—even as they recognize war and loss as part of our lives and sometimes part of our holidays. Christmas Memories from Mississippi looks at the holidays from the early twentieth century through the present and offers the celebrations from various points of view, both religious and secular. This book makes an ideal memento of shared traditions and lovingly extends the spirit of the season across the state's diversity.