University Press Of Mississippi imprint: 979 books
Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2004
While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera. Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star in her day. She entertained Eleanor Roosevelt in...
Transformed
A White Mississippi Pastor’s Journey into Civil Rights and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2011
In May 1964, Bill McAtee became the new minister at Columbia Presbyterian Church, deep in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. Soon after his arrival, three young civil rights workers were brutally murdered outside Philadelphia, Mississippi. Many other activists from across the country poured into...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2002
With essays by Tony Badger, David L. Chappell, Elizabeth Jacoway, Richard H. King, Ralph E. Luker, Charles Marsh, Keith D. Miller, Linda Reed, and Lauren F. Winner In the 1950s and 1960s the American South was in upheaval. Brilliant thinkers and writers joined on-the-ground activists to challenge segregation...
Right to Revolt
The Crusade for Racial Justice in Mississippi's Central Piney Woods
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
On January 10, 1966, Klansmen murdered civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer in Forrest County, Mississippi. Despite the FBI's growing conflict against the Klan, recent civil rights legislation, and progressive court rulings, the Imperial Wizard promised his men: "no jury in Mississippi would convict...
by Anne S. Lipscomb, Kathleen Hutchison
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
by Ph.D., Angela J. Koestler, M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2002
Pain accounts for more than thirty-five million new office visits and more than seventy million of all office visits to physicians each year in the United States. Although there is no cure for chronic pain, Understanding Chronic Pain outlines new and effective treatments that focus on the management...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2009
Contributions by Deborah N. Cohn, Leigh Anne Duck, Robert W. Hamblin, Michael Kreyling, Barbara Ladd, Walter Benn Michaels, Patrick O'Donnell, Theresa M. Towner, Annette Trefzer, and Karl F. Zender
Faulkner in the Twenty-First Century presents the thoughts of ten noted Faulkner scholars who...
Just Trying to Have School
The Struggle for Desegregation in Mississippi
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
After the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling, no state fought longer or harder to preserve segregated schools than Mississippi. This massive resistance came to a crashing halt in October 1969 when the Supreme Court ruled in Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education that "the obligation of every...
Black Diva of the Thirties
The Life of Ruby Elzy
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the first black artists to appear in grand opera.
Although now in the shadows, she was a shining star in her day. She entertained Eleanor Roosevelt...
by Julie Huffman-klinkowitz, Jerome Klinkowitz
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2005
Best-selling authors, sensational lecturers, documentary filmmakers, amateur archaeologists, spies for FDR--Dana and Ginger Lamb led the life of Indiana Jones long before the movie icon was ever scripted. "We blaze the trail," Ginger said, "and the scientists follow." The Enchanted Quest of Dana...
Cups Up
How I Organized a Klavern, Plotted a Coup, Survived Prison, Graduated College, Fought Polluters, and Started a Business
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
George T. Malvaney's life epitomizes the old maxim that "You cannot make this stuff up." Combine a young Klansman from Mississippi, an armed coup attempt in the Caribbean, a stay in prison, and a life-changing epiphany, and you have but half of this swashbuckling tale. Throw in the worst...
Song of My Life
A Biography of Margaret Walker
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Margaret Walker (1915–1998) has been described as “the most famous person nobody knows.” This is a shocking oversight of an award-winning poet, novelist, essayist, educator, and activist as well as friend and mentor to many prominent African American writers. Song of My Life reintroduces Margaret...
by Charles W. Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2005
Never before published, A Business Career is the story of Stella Merwin, a white woman entering the working-class world to discover the truth behind her upper-class father's financial failure. A "New Woman" of the 1890s, Stella joins a stenographer's office and uncovers a life-altering secret that...
Florida's Miracle Strip
From Redneck Riviera to Emerald Coast
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2004
Since World War II, tourists have flocked to Florida's northwest Gulf Coast and sun and fun spots at Panama City Beach, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Every year those visitors number in the millions.
For those who long to recall how the vacationland appeared thirty, forty, or even...