A New History of Mississippi

Synopsis

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. Dennis J. Mitchell. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.