Saturday, October 11, 2008

Historical Resources...

...for teaching Uncle Tom's Children:

Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America by James Allen etal. Twin Palms Publishers, 2004.

Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How it Changed America by John M Barry. Simon & Schuster, 1997

The Most Southern Place on Earth: The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity by James C. Cobb. Oxford U Press, 1992.

Dark Journey: Black Mississippians in the Age of Jim Crow by Neil McMillen. U of Illinois, 1989.

Lynchings in Mississippi: A History, 1865-1965 by Julius E. Thompson. McFarland, 2007.

The Richard Wright Encyclopedia by Jerry W. Ward & Robert J. Butler. Greenwood, 2008

~ Happy Reading Maggie

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