A new history of Mississippi [electronic resource] / Dennis J. Mitchell.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9781626740198
- 1626740194
- 976.2 23
- F341 .M75 2014
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Geographical introduction: the place -- Rise and fall of Indian culture -- Frontier and borderland -- Mississippi territory -- Frontier democracy to slave society -- Cotton kingdom -- Civil War: disaster and freedom -- Reconstruction: war by other means -- Redemption and black subjection -- Attempted revolt of the rednecks -- Segregation: red, yellow, black, and white -- War, depression, and environmental restoration -- World War II, economic improvement, and social confusion -- A closed society's response to challenge -- The civil rights movement and white defiance -- Mississippi and the modern world.
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