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Recipes and Reminiscences of New Orleans

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Old Ursurline Convent Cookbook: November 1971

Seller ID: 133208

ISBN: 0960471804

Binding: Spiralbound

Condition: Used - Good

Mississippi: An Illustrated History

By: Akin, Edward N.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Windsor Pubns: October 1987

Seller ID: 127659

ISBN: 0897812255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Inscription on end paper from giver of book; signed by the author on the title page, inscription reads: 'For Gladys Bingham - Mississippi always onward!' Edwin N. Aiken, Christmas 1987
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Jackson: A Special Kind of Place

By: Brinson, Carroll

Price: $10.00

Publisher: City of Jackson: January 1977

Seller ID: 128369

ISBN: B0006CTXAU

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Cover of book is not in great condition, but the book itself is in good condition, with some foxing on the inside covers.
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Southern Stuff: Down-Home Talk and Bodacious Lore from Deep in the Heart of Dixie

By: Brooks, Mildred Jordan

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Avon Books: February 1992

Seller ID: 134393

ISBN: 0380764911

Condition: Used - Good

Mississippi Memories: The Early Years 1860-1939

By: Clarion-Ledger, The

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Pediment Publishing: January 2000

Seller ID: 129320

ISBN: 1891395416

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South

By: Eubanks, W. Ralph

Price: $5.00

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi: September 2011

Seller ID: 133308

ISBN: 1617030813

Condition: Used - Good

In defiance of his middle-class landowning family, a young white man named James Morgan Richardson married a lightskinned black woman, Edna Howell. It was 1914 in south Alabama. Together they eventually built a house at the dead end of a road in a rural black community. If you came there to do the Richardson family harm, you faced Jim Richardson's rule of justice, represented by a double-barreled shotgun. And at the end of the road, there was only one way out."The House at the End of the Road: The Story of Three Generations of an Interracial Family in the American South" examines how one...
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Jackson: The Good Life (Urban Tapestry Series)

By: Grayson, Walt, Ford, Gil, Carter, Marlo Kirkpatrick

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Towery Pub.: June 1998

Seller ID: 133468

ISBN: 1881096572

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Signed on front endpaper by Walt Grayson.
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Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965

By: Parker, Frank R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: May 1990

Seller ID: 133129

ISBN: 0807842745

Condition: Used - Good

Most Americans see the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 as the culmination of the civil rights movement. When the law was enacted, black voter registration in Mississippi soared. Few black candidates won office, however. In this book, Frank Parker describes black Mississippians' battle for meaningful voting rights, bringing the story up to 1986, when Mike Espy was elected as Mississippi's first black member of Congress in this century.To nullify the impact of the black vote, white Mississippi devised a political "massive resistance" strategy, adopting such disenfranchising devices a...
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Black Votes Count: Political Empowerment in Mississippi After 1965

By: Parker, Frank R.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press: May 1990

Seller ID: 124588

ISBN: 0807842745

Condition: Used - Good

Marie's Melting Pot

By: Tusa, Marie Lupo

Price: $75.00

Publisher: T & M Pubns: December 1980

Seller ID: 133203

ISBN: 0960706291

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Used, fairly good condition. Plastic comb is in good condition and there are no loose pages. Some wear to edges of covers, but overall in very good condition.
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Jennie the Watercress Girl

By: Walter, Eugene

Price: $10.00

Publisher: HB Publications: January 1946

Seller ID: 113017

ISBN: 0940882167

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Official Redneck Handbook

By: Whaley, Bo

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Rutledge Hill Pr: May 1987

Seller ID: 134392

ISBN: 0934395489

Condition: Used - Good

Here is a book for Yankees trying to decide what to do with their carpetbags or for sons and daughters of the South determined to preserve their heritage. Illustrated.
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A Hard Trip: A History of the 15th Mississippi Infantry, CSA

By: Wynne, Ben

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Mercer Univ Pr: March 2010

Seller ID: 128526

ISBN: 0881461792

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Not strictly a military history, Ben Wynne examines in this book the social components of Confederate service in the context of the experiences of a single regiment. Using first person accounts from letters, diaries, memoirs and other primary materials, the book sets the 15th Mississippi in a personal context. The narrative is chronologically arranged by the events of the western theater of the Civil War. Emphasizing the real war and not a romanticized version, the story of this unique regiment follows a group of men who entered the war with visions of glory and honor but within one year came ...
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