Meet My Mississippi

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Publisher : Liberation's Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781732084681
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (846 download)

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Book Synopsis Meet My Mississippi by : Patricia Neely-Dorsey

Download or read book Meet My Mississippi written by Patricia Neely-Dorsey and published by Liberation's Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the poem Meet My Mississippi by Patricia Neely-Dorsey, the Meet My Mississippi children's book is an EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND FUN LITERARY TOUR GUIDE FILLED WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI, it is a wonderful way to share love and knowledge of Mississippi across generations. The book showcases some of the best that Mississippi has to offer in a kid-friendly format. It's perfect for kids from 8 to 80! The reader will explore Mississippi landmarks and legends through poetic verse while enjoying colorful illustrations by a Mississippi artist. The author invites EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE to KNOW More About Mississippi, LEARN More About Mississippi and LOVE More About Mississippi! Patricia Neely-Dorsey is a 1982 graduate of Tupelo High School in Tupelo, Mississippi. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts. Her first book of poetry, Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems was published in February 2008. Her second book of poetry, My Magnolia Memories and Musings- In Poems was published in February 2012. Her third book "Mississippi In Me" was published in January 2017. She calls her books a "celebration of the south and things southern." Through her poems, the author attempts to give a more positive view of Mississippi and the South, rather than all the negatives usually portrayed. In 2015, Patricia received a proclamation in her honor from Governor Phil Bryant declaring her as an Official Goodwill Ambassador for the state. Her slogan is "Always, Always Celebrating the South and Promoting a Positive Mississippi." Her poem "Meet My Mississippi " was submitted for consideration as the official state poem in the 2016, 2017, and 2018 legislative sessions. Several of Patricia's Mississippi poems are included on t-shirts of the Southern Belle T-shirt Company line in her continuing efforts to Promote a Positive Mississippi. Patricia currently lives in Tupelo with her husband James. They have one son, James Henry. Brenda Ragsdale is a self- taught freelance artist who lives in Guntown, Mississippi. Brenda attended Guntown Elementary School and Guntown Middle School. She is a graduate of Saltillo High School. She is married to Jeff Ragsdale. They have two sons, three daughters and fourteen grandchildren. The artist states, "This book was my first time using the medium of watercolors. I was always a little afraid of it, but it turned out beautifully! "Mississippi is such a beautiful state and it has contributed so much more than most people know."

Meet My Mississippi: School Textbook Edition

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Publisher : Liberation's Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781951300913
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Meet My Mississippi: School Textbook Edition written by Patricia Neely-Dorsey and published by Liberation's Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adapted from the poem Meet My Mississippi by Patricia Neely-Dorsey, the Meet My Mississippi School d104book is an EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND FUN LITERARY TOUR GUIDE FILLED WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI, it is a wonderful way to share love and knowledge of Mississippi across generations. The book showcases some of the best that Mississippi has to offer in a kid-friendly format. It's perfect for kids from 8 to 80! The reader will explore Mississippi landmarks and legends through poetic verse while enjoying colorful illustrations by a Mississippi artist. The author invites EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE to KNOW More About Mississippi, LEARN More About Mississippi and LOVE More About Mississippi! EXPANDED SCHOOL TEXTBOOK EDITION 10 ADDITIONAL LOCATION ILLUSTRATIONS MORE EXTENSIVE STUDY GUIDE/LESSON PLAN SECTION Expanded Edition is an EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND FUN LITERARY TOUR GUIDE FILLED WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI.

Meet My Mississippi

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ISBN 13 : 9781732693463
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (934 download)

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Book Synopsis Meet My Mississippi by : Patricia Neely-Dorsey

Download or read book Meet My Mississippi written by Patricia Neely-Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EXPANDED SCHOOL EDITION 10 ADDITIONAL LOCATION ILLUSTRATIONS MORE EXTENSIVE STUDY GUIDE/LESSON PLAN SECTION Expanded Edition is an EXCELLENT EDUCATIONAL TOOL AND FUN LITERARY TOUR GUIDE FILLED WITH INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT MISSISSIPPI.

The Last Resort

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604739789
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Resort by : Norma Watkins

Download or read book The Last Resort written by Norma Watkins and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised under the racial segregation that kept her family's southern country hotel afloat, Norma Watkins grows up listening at doors, trying to penetrate the secrets and silences of the black help and of her parents' marriage. Groomed to be an ornament to white patriarchy, she sees herself failing at the ideal of becoming a southern lady. The Last Resort, her compelling memoir, begins in childhood at Allison's Wells, a popular Mississippi spa for proper white people, run by her aunt. Life at the rambling hotel seems like paradise. Yet young Norma wonders at a caste system that has colored people cooking every meal while forbidding their sitting with whites to eat. Once integration is court-mandated, her beloved father becomes a stalwart captain in defense of Jim Crow as a counselor to fiery, segregationist Governor Ross Barnett. His daughter flounders, looking for escape. A fine house, wonderful children, and a successful husband do not compensate for the shock of Mississippi's brutal response to change, daily made manifest by the men in her home. A sexually bleak marriage only emphasizes a growing emotional emptiness. When a civil rights lawyer offers love and escape, does a good southern lady dare leave her home state and closed society behind? With humor and heartbreak, The Last Resort conveys at once the idyllic charm and the impossible compromises of a lost way of life.

Minn of the Mississippi

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Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395273999
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (739 download)

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Download or read book Minn of the Mississippi written by and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1951 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the adventures of Minn, a three-legged snapping turtle, as she slowly makes her way from her birthplace at the headwaters of the Mississippi River to the mouth of river on the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi Morning

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Publisher : Eerdmans Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9780802852113
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Morning by : Ruth Vander Zee

Download or read book Mississippi Morning written by Ruth Vander Zee and published by Eerdmans Young Readers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1933 Mississippi, this thought-provoking story about a young boy who lives in an environment of racial hatred will challenge young readers to question their own assumptions and confront personal decisions. Full color.

Delta Jewels

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Publisher : Center Street
ISBN 13 : 1455562831
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)

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Book Synopsis Delta Jewels by : Alysia Burton Steele

Download or read book Delta Jewels written by Alysia Burton Steele and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by memories of her beloved grandmother, photographer and author Alysia Burton Steele -- picture editor on a Pulitzer Prize-winning team -- combines heart-wrenching narrative with poignant photographs of more than 50 female church elders in the Mississippi Delta. These ordinary women lived extraordinary lives under the harshest conditions of the Jim Crow era and during the courageous changes of the Civil Rights Movement. With the help of local pastors, Steele recorded these living witnesses to history and folk ways, and shares the significance of being a Black woman -- child, daughter, sister, wife, mother, and grandmother in Mississippi -- a Jewel of the Delta. From the stand Mrs. Tennie Self took for her marriage to be acknowledged in the phone book, to the life-threatening sacrifice required to vote for the first time, these 50 inspiring portraits are the faces of love and triumph that will teach readers faith and courage in difficult times.

Coming of Age in Mississippi

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Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0307803589
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Coming of Age in Mississippi by : Anne Moody

Download or read book Coming of Age in Mississippi written by Anne Moody and published by Dell. This book was released on 2011-09-07 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unforgettable memoir of a woman at the front lines of the civil rights movement—a harrowing account of black life in the rural South and a powerful affirmation of one person’s ability to affect change. “Anne Moody’s autobiography is an eloquent, moving testimonial to her courage.”—Chicago Tribune Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till’s lynching. Before then, she had “known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was . . . the fear of being killed just because I was black.” In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life. A straight-A student who realized her dream of going to college when she won a basketball scholarship, she finally dared to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC, she experienced firsthand the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement—and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs, and deadly force that were used to destroy it. A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning point in our nation’s destiny, this autobiography lets us see history in the making, through the eyes of one of the footsoldiers in the civil rights movement. Praise for Coming of Age in Mississippi “A history of our time, seen from the bottom up, through the eyes of someone who decided for herself that things had to be changed . . . a timely reminder that we cannot now relax.”—Senator Edward Kennedy, The New York Times Book Review “Something is new here . . . rural southern black life begins to speak. It hits the page like a natural force, crude and undeniable and, against all principles of beauty, beautiful.”—The Nation “Engrossing, sensitive, beautiful . . . so candid, so honest, and so touching, as to make it virtually impossible to put down.”—San Francisco Sun-Reporter

Mississippi Trial, 1955

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440650314
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Trial, 1955 by : Chris Crowe

Download or read book Mississippi Trial, 1955 written by Chris Crowe and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-05-27 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the fiftieth anniversary approaches, there's a renewed interest in this infamous 1955 murder case, which made a lasting mark on American culture, as well as the future Civil Rights Movement. Chris Crowe's IRA Award-winning novel and his gripping, photo-illustrated nonfiction work are currently the only books on the teenager's murder written for young adults.

Mississippi Solo

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805059038
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (59 download)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Solo by : Eddy Harris

Download or read book Mississippi Solo written by Eddy Harris and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

Deputy

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ISBN 13 : 9780991147595
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Book Synopsis Deputy by : Merle Temple

Download or read book Deputy written by Merle Temple and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems

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ISBN 13 : 9780979629426
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (294 download)

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Book Synopsis Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems by : Patricia Neely-Dorsey

Download or read book Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems written by Patricia Neely-Dorsey and published by . This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections of a Mississippi Magnolia-A Life in Poems is a "celebration of the south and things southern." The authors states..." There are so many negative connotations associated with Mississippi and the south in general. In my book. using childhood memories, persoanl thoughts and dreams, I attempt to give a positive glimpse into the southern way of life.

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country

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Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496828852
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Book Synopsis Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country by : Roy DeBerry

Download or read book Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country written by Roy DeBerry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi—an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement. The authors’ approach places the region’s history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and ’50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the highest per capita total of African American registered voters in Mississippi. Locals produced a regular, clandestinely distributed newsletter, the Benton County Freedom Train. In addition to documenting this previously unrecorded history, personal narratives capture pivotal moments of individual lives and lend insight into the human cost and the long-term effects of social movements. Benton County residents explain the events that shaped their lives and ultimately, in their own humble way, helped shape the trajectory of America. Through these first-person stories and with dozens of captivating photos covering more than a century’s worth of history, the volume presents a vivid picture of a people and a region still striving for the prize of equality and justice.

Medgar Evers

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Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1557286469
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (572 download)

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Book Synopsis Medgar Evers by : Michael Vinson Williams

Download or read book Medgar Evers written by Michael Vinson Williams and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2013-08-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sculptor Ed Hamilton presents information on his portrait bust of African-American civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers (1925-1963). Evers was murdered on June 12, 1963. He worked for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and campaigned to win equal rights for African Americans in the south. The bust was cast in bronze at Bright Foundry in Louisville, Kentucky. General Mills, Inc. commissioned the bust.

Called to the Fire

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Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1426759924
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis Called to the Fire by : Chet Bush

Download or read book Called to the Fire written by Chet Bush and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of Dr. Charles Johnson, an African American preacher who went to Mississippi in 1961 during the summer of the Freedom Rides. Fresh out of Bible School Johnson hesitantly followed his call to pastor in Mississippi, a hotbed for race relations during the early 1960’s. Unwittingly thrust into the heart of a national tragedy, the murder of three Civil Rights activists, he overcame fear and adversity to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. As a key African American witness to take the stand in the trial famously dubbed the “Mississippi Burning” case by the FBI, Charles Johnson played a key role for the Federal Justice Department, offering clarity to the event that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. This story of love, conviction, adversity, and redemption climaxes with a shocking encounter between Charles and one of the murderers. The reader will be riveted to the details of a gracious life in pursuit of the call of God from the pulpit to the streets, and ultimately into the courtroom.

Nick

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Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316529753
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)

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Book Synopsis Nick by : Michael Farris Smith

Download or read book Nick written by Michael Farris Smith and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critically acclaimed novelist pulls Nick Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this "masterful" look into his life before Gatsby (Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Chances Are). Before Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's periphery, he was at the center of a very different story-one taking place along the trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in the wake of the destruction he witnessed firsthand, Nick delays his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance-doomed from the very beginning-to the dizzying frenzy of New Orleans, rife with its own flavor of debauchery and violence. An epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes new life into a character that many know but few have pondered deeply. Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to paralyze even the heartiest of golden age scribes, Nick reveals the man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.

Mississippi Sissy

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Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429917059
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Book Synopsis Mississippi Sissy by : Kevin Sessums

Download or read book Mississippi Sissy written by Kevin Sessums and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2008-03-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South. As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word "sissy" on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin's long road north towards celebrity begins. In his memoir, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there. "Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure.” —Michael Cunningham