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"From Percival Everett--a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards--comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
2) Mississippi
Author
Publisher
Bellwether Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Mississippi. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Natchez, Mississippi once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions. Richard Grant depicts this strange, eccentric town as it breaks free from the Old South's cultural grip.
4) Mudbound
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is ripped apart. Writer-director Dee Rees, with co-writer Virgil...
