The film and best-selling novel The Help tells the story of Skeeter Phelan, a white Ole Miss graduate who collaborates on a secret writing project with the Black women who work as maids for white families in 1960s-era Mississippi. While some have been wary of the story by University of Alabama graduate Kathryn Stockett because […]
These days Oxford, Miss., is best known as genteel southern college town, the former home to writers John Grisham and William Faulkner. It evokes the scent of magnolias, and the roar of the crowd at a University of Mississippi football game. But in 1962, it was quite a different atmosphere, and the roars were […]
Audio and driving tour Freedom Summer was a 1964 voter registration program that brought thousands of volunteers to the Deep South in 1964. The effort was met with organized violence, including the Mississippi Burning murders of James Chaney of nearby Meridian, Mississippi, and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner, both of New York. The apex of […]