Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State

Mississippi Mind: A Personal Cultural History of an American State
ISBN-10
0870496433
ISBN-13
9780870496431
Category
Mississippi
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Univ. of Tennessee Press
Author
Gayle Graham Yates

Description

For many Americans, the civil rights movement of the 1960s marked a watershed that was not only political and social in character but deeply personal as well.

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