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African Americans Civil rights African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century African Americans Civil rights Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile literature Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century Civil rights movements Mississippi History 20th century Juvenile literature Civil rights workers Mississippi Mississippi Race relations Mississippi Race relations History 20th century Juvenile literature Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)Ferris, William
Summary: Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they spoke about and performed the diverse musical traditions that form the authentic roots of the blues. Now, Give My Poor Heart Ease puts a searing selection of the artistically and emotionally rich voices from this invaluable documentary record....
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: The murderer's home / Jimpson & group -- No more, my lord / Jimpson & axe gang -- Old Alabama / B. B. & group -- Black woman / B. B. & group -- Jumpin' Judy / Tangle Eye, Fuzzy Red, Hard Hair, & group -- Whoa Buck / C. B. -- Prettiest train / "22" -- Old dollar Mamie / "22" & group -- It makes a long time man feel bad / "22" & group -- Rosie / C. B. & axe gang -- Levee Camp holler / Bama --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK PRIContents: Four' o'clock flower blues (Willie "61" Blackwell & William Brown) -- Interview (Willie "61" Blackwell) -- Walking blues (Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Willie Brown, Leroy Williams) -- When I lay my burden down (Turner Junior Johnson) -- Strange things happening in the land (Charles Haffer, Jr.) -- Missionary sermon : excerpt (J.H. Terrell -- Rock, Daniel (Rev. C.H. Savage and group) --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Select 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES LANContents: Camp hollers (Son House, Willie Brown, Fiddlin' Joe Martin) -- Cornfield hollers (Charley Berry) -- I'm a soldier in the army of the Lord (Silent Grove Baptist Church congregation) -- I'm gonna lift up a standard for my King (Church of God in Christ congregation) -- Worried life blues (David Edwards) -- Ragged and dirty (William Brown) -- Special rider blues (Son House) -- Depot blues (Son...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES NEGMcDowell, Fred.
Contents: I'm going down the river (with Fanny Davis, comb, Miles Pratcher, guitar) -- 61 Highway blues -- Wished I was in heaven sitting down -- When the train come along (with Sidney Carter, Rose Hemphill, vocals) -- Shake 'em on down (with Fanny Davis, comb, Miles Pratcher, guitar) -- Worried mind -- Woke up this morning with my mind on Jesus -- You done told everybody -- Keep your lamps trimmed and...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES MCDMwai, Melissa H.
Summary: "Learn all about the amazing African American culture of Harlem with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Harlem Renaissance' will introduce kids to the exciting lives, music, art and ideas of the African American community of Harlem 100 years ago--and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MWABausum, Ann
Summary: Explores the March Against Fear, a protest started by James Meredith and taken up by other civil rights leaders after Meredith was shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 BAUNnachi, Ngeri
Summary: "Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more affected by this racism than the state of Mississippi. In 1964, organizers and volunteers brought change to Mississippi. This movement to register Black voters became known as Freedom Summer, and it led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.2 NNABowers, Rick
Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 323.11 BOWThompson, Wright
Summary: "A shocking and revelatory account of the murder of Emmett Till that lays bare how forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta in the long lead-up to the crime, and how the truth was erased for so long"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 364.134 THOWatson, Bruce
Summary: "In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 WATReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REIWright, Richard
Summary: The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperPerennial Modern Classics 2020