Product Description: Uniting Mississippi applies a new, philosophically informed theory of democratic leadership to Mississippi’s challenges. Governor William F. Winter has written a foreword for the book, supporting its proposals.The book begins with an examination of Mississippi’s apparent Catch-22, namely the difficulty of addressing problems of poverty without fixing issues in education first, and vice versa...read more

Product Description: In The Mississippi State Constitution, John W. Winkle III explores constitutional meaning in Mississippi, both past and present, and shows how, through their own interpretations, judges and other government actors have shaped that meaning...read more

Product Description: The journey of writer and publisher Brandt Ayers took him from the segregated Old South to a newly minted civilization, the New South.Ayers was a young reporter and editor in Raleigh, Washington, and Alabama in the crucible of the civil-rights struggle, covering an enlightened state government in North Carolina, writing about the origins of civil-rights legislation as a Washington correspondent in the Kennedy years, and serving as editor of his family s hometown newspaper, the Anniston Star...read more

Product Description: In May 1964, Bill McAtee became the new minister at Columbia Presbyterian Church, deep in the Piney Woods of south Mississippi. Soon after his arrival, three young civil rights workers were brutally murdered outside Philadelphia, Mississippi...read more