The Mississippian’s Bookshelf Nonfiction The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson The Senator and the Sharecropper: The Freedom Struggles of James O. Eastland and Fannie Lou Hamer by Chris Myers Asch The Hardest Deal of All: The Battle Over School Integration in Mississippi, 1870-1980 by Charles C. Bolton Dixie: A Personal Odyssey Through Events That Shaped the Modern South by Curtis Wilkie Southern Politics In State & Nation by V.O. Key Silver Rights by Constance Curry Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody Eyes On Mississippi: A Fifty Year Chronicle Of Change by Bill Minor Politics and Society in the South by Earl Black The Burden of Southern History by C. Vann Woodward The Transformation of Southern Politics: Social Change and Political Consequence Since 1945 by Jack Bass Maverick Among The Magnolias: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story by John A. Whalen The Courting of Marcus Dupree by Willie Morris I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle by Charles M. Payne Sons of Mississippi: A Story of Race and Its Legacy by Paul Hendrickson Mississippi Fried Politics: Tall Tales from the Back Rooms by Andy Taggart Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz William F. Winter and the New Mississippi: A Biography by Charles C. Bolton Mississippians by Neil White You Can’t Eat Magnolias by Thomas H. Naylor Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project by Robert P. Moses Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry My Mississippi by Willie Morris The Fall of the House of Zeus: The Rise and Ruin of America’s Most Powerful Trial Lawyer by Curtis Wilkie Mississippi in Africa by Alan Huffman Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006 by Jere Nash North Toward Home by Willie Morris The Past Is Never Dead: The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi’s Struggle for Redemption by Harry N. MacLean Away Down South: A History of Southern Identity by James C. Cobb The Strange Career of Jim Crow by C. Vann Woodward The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity by James C. Cobb A New History of Mississippi by Dennis J Mitchell Mississippi Mud: Southern Justice and the Dixie Mafia by Edward Humes Dream Room: Tales of the Dixie Mafia by Chet Nicholson The State of Jones by Sally Jenkins Terrains Of The Heart And Other Essays On Home by Willie Morris Worse Than Slavery by David M. Oshinsky Men We Reaped: A Memoir by Jesmyn Ward Trials of the Earth: The Autobiography of Mary Hamilton by Helen D. Davis The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander Revolt of the Rednecks: Mississippi Politics, 1876-1925 by Albert D. Kirwan Brother to a Dragonfly by Will D. Campbell Better Off Without ‘Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession by Chuck Thompson Mississippi: The Closed Society by James W Silver Growing Up Gay in the South by James T. Sears Price of Defiance by Charles W. Eagles The Band Played Dixie: Race and the Liberal Conscience at Ole Miss by Nadine Cohodas The Mind of the South by W.J. Cash Share book reviews and ratings with Rethink Mississippi, and even join a book club on Goodreads.
