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    • By: Richard Grant
    • Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in America, and its wealth was built on slavery and cotton. Today it has the greatest concentration of antebellum mansions in the South, and a culture full of unexpected contradictions....

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    • The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
    • By: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity came to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation....

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    • A Legal Thriller
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,509 ratings
    • John Grisham returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law.

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    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966....

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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,587 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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    • The Mississippi River in North American History
    • By: Paul Schneider
    • Narrated by: Alan Sklar
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • In Old Man River, Paul Schneider tells the story of the river at the center of America's rich history - the Mississippi....

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    • Stories
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: John Grisham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,453 ratings
    • This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America's favorite storyteller....

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    • The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Devery S. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Brandon Church
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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    • The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
    • By: James C. Cobb
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was in 1860: a land of rich soil, wealthy planters, and desperate poverty - the blackest and poorest counties in all the South....

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    • A Jake Brigance Novel
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Series: Jake Brigance, Book 3
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19,375 ratings
    • Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy....

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    • A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Kate Clifford Larson tells the remarkable story of Fannie Lou Hamer, community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement.

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    • A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
    • By: Beverly Lowry
    • Narrated by: Beverly Lowry
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms....

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    • American Made Music Series
    • By: Philip R. Ratcliffe
    • Narrated by: Steve Hart
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • When Mississippi John Hurt was "rediscovered" by blues revivalists in 1963, his musicianship and recordings transformed popular notions of prewar country blues. At 71 he moved to Washington, DC, from Avalon, Mississippi, and became a live-wire connection to a powerful, authentic past....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Greg Iles
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Series: Penn Cage, Book 5
    • Length: 32 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,155 ratings
    • Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancee, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives....

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    • How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation
    • By: Thomas A. Tarrants
    • Narrated by: Ben Holland
    • Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 08-06-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • How a bomb-making white supremacist, once called "the most dangerous man in Mississippi", met Jesus in prison and emerged a committed advocate for Christian discipleship, peace, and racial justice....

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    • Benjamin Grierson’s Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi
    • By: Timothy B. Smith
    • Narrated by: Ben Collins
    • Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • Benjamin Grierson’s Union cavalry thrusting through Mississippi is one of the most well-known operations of the Civil War. The Real Horse Soldiers captures the high drama and tension of the 1863 horse soldiers in a modern, comprehensive, academic study....

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    • An American City In Black And White
    • By: William Sturkey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • If you really want to understand Jim Crow - what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it - you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown....

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    • By: Julie Cantrell
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,290 ratings
    • Lovey served as the family scapegoat, always bearing the brunt when her Southern belle sister Bitsy threw blame her way. At 18, Lovey fled to Arizona....

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    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Series: Lucien Wilbanks, Book 1, Harry Rex Vonner, Book 1, Jake Brigance, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,506 ratings
    • Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a 10-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle - and takes justice into his own outraged hands....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: John Howels
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • "Life on the Mississippi" (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American...

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