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Stories Set in Mississippi
Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha, delta blues crossroads and river-town secrets — Mississippi is gothic America's ground zero. Its stories flow slow and haunted.
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Browse 110 books, 78 movies and 2 games set in Mississippi.
Django Unchained
With the help of a German bounty hunter a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.
The Help
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an African-American maid who has often offended her employers…
The Help
Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found hereThree ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have…
A Time to Kill
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daughter sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Mississippi Burning
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in…
In the Heat of the Night
African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie the racist police chief of tiny Sparta Mississippi. After Tibbs proves not only his own innocence but that…
Sinners
Twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
The Burial
When a handshake deal goes sour funeral home owner Jeremiah O'Keefe enlists charismatic smooth-talking attorney Willie E. Gary to save his family business. Tempers flare and laughter ensues as the unlikely pair bond…
Till
The true story of Mamie Till Mobley’s relentless pursuit of justice for her 14 year old son Emmett Till who in 1955 was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi.
Free State of Jones
In 1863 Mississippi farmer Newt Knight serves as a medic for the Confederate Army. Opposed to slavery Knight would rather help the wounded than fight the Union. After his nephew dies in battle Newt returns home to Jones…
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