Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country: The Benton County Civil Rights Movement

by Roy Deberry, Stephen Klein, Aviva Futorian, et al.

Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi--an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496828828
• ISBN13: 9781496828828
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"