A History of Grenada County
Author | : J. C. Hathorn |
Publisher | : David Jensen |
Total Pages | : 233 |
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Genre | : Grenada County (Miss.) |
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Author | : J. C. Hathorn |
Publisher | : David Jensen |
Total Pages | : 233 |
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Genre | : Grenada County (Miss.) |
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Author | : John Cooper Hathorn |
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Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Grenada County (Miss.) |
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Author | : H. C. J. Hathorn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2014-10-30 |
Genre | : Grenada County (Miss.) |
ISBN | : 9780893084257 |
By: H.C.J. Hathorn, Pub, 1968, reprinted 2015, 257 pages plus New Index, ISBN #0-89308-425-5. Grenada County was created from lands ceded from the Choctaw Indians in 1833, eventhough the county was not officially created until the 1870's. It sits in the North Central portion of the State and is surrounded by the counties of: Calhoun, Carroll, Leflore, Montgomery, Sumner/Webster, Tallahatchie, and Yalobusha. The scarcity of this book alone should make this book a MUST for anyone who is interested in or who has family connections to the State of Mississippi. This history is designed to make available to the people of this area historical information which is now found only in the pages of old newspapers, land deeds, records, wills, personal letters, and similar written sources. The NEw index that was prepared for this volume contains the names of approimately 2,000 persons.
Author | : Karen L. Cox |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2021-02-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 146966268X |
When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands. These conflicts have raged for well over a century--but they've never been as intense as they are today. In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen L. Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning. She lucidly shows the forces that drove white southerners to construct beacons of white supremacy, as well as the ways that antimonument sentiment, largely stifled during the Jim Crow era, returned with the civil rights movement and gathered momentum in the decades after the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Monument defenders responded with gerrymandering and "heritage" laws intended to block efforts to remove these statues, but hard as they worked to preserve the Lost Cause vision of southern history, civil rights activists, Black elected officials, and movements of ordinary people fought harder to take the story back. Timely, accessible, and essential, No Common Ground is the story of the seemingly invincible stone sentinels that are just beginning to fall from their pedestals.
Author | : Lovejoy Boteler |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2019-02-19 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1496821726 |
In 1968, during Albert Lepard’s fifth escape from a life sentence at Parchman Penitentiary, he kidnapped Lovejoy Boteler, then eighteen years old, from his family’s farm in Grenada, Mississippi. Three decades later, still beset by half-buried memories of that time, Boteler began researching his kidnapper’s nefarious, sordid life to discover how and why this terrifying abduction occurred. Crooked Snake: The Life and Crimes of Albert Lepard is the true story of Lepard, sentenced to life in Parchman for the murder of seventy-four-year-old Mary Young in 1959. During the course of his sentence, Lepard escaped from prison six times in fourteen years. In Crooked Snake, Boteler pieces together the story of this cold-blooded murderer's life using both historical records and personal interviews—over seventy in all—with ex-convicts who gravitated to and ran with Lepard, the family members who fed and sheltered the fugitive during his escapes, the law officers who hunted him, and the regular folks who were victimized in his terrible wake. Throughout Crooked Snake, Boteler reveals his kidnapper’s hardscrabble childhood and tracks his whereabouts before his incarceration and during his jailbreaks. Lepard’s escapes take him to Florida, Michigan, Kansas, California, and Mexico. Crooked Snake captures a slice of history and a landscape that is fast disappearing. These vignettes describe Mississippi’s countryside and spirit, ranging from sharecropper family gatherings in Attala County’s Seneasha Valley to the twenty-thousand-acre Parchman farm and its borderlands teeming with alligator, panther, bear, and wild boar.
Author | : Robert C. Black III |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2018-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469650304 |
Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved for iron; and eventually worn out--struggling on to inevitable destruction in the wake of Sherman's army, carrying the Confederacy down with them. With maps of all the Confederate railroads and contemporary photographs and facsimiles of such documents as railroad tickets, timetables, and soldiers' passes, the book will captivate railroad enthusiasts as well as readers interested in the Civil War.
Author | : Charles C. Bolton |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2013-07-08 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1617037877 |
The life story of the Mississippi governor known for his fight for education and racial reconciliation
Author | : Ronald H. Spector |
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Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Government publications |
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Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 208 |
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Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9781617034091 |
A celebration of the state's sacred places