Get to know Mississippi
These are books that are either by Black Mississippians or about Mississippi. This playlist ranges from child to adult. So sit back with a nice glass of sweet tea, and get to know Mississippi! “Mississippi just has a certain stank to it,” he said in a recent phone interview, describing the state’s primal force on his writing. “It’s the most culturally rich place in the world. I just need to be closer to cultural artistic richness, and to me, that’s Mississippi.” - Kiese Laymon
Coming of Age in Mississippi
By Anne Moody
Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
Length: 15 hours 30 minutes
Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was…the... Read more »
Memorial Drive
A Daughter's Memoir
By Natasha Trethewey
Narrated by: Natasha Trethewey
Length: 5 hours 9 minutes
Memorial Drive
“Natasha Trethewey was 19 when her mother was murdered by her stepfather in 1985. For decades, she hid the event, and memories of her mother, in the recesses of her mind while she went on to win a Pulitzer Prize and become the Poet Laureate of the United States. Now, decades later, she opens herself up to her past to produce a harrowing yet beautiful memorial.”
Mike , Northshire Bookstore
Jubilee, 50th Anniversary Edition
By Margaret Walker
Narrated by: Robin Miles
Length: 15 hours 43 minutes
The fiftieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Walker’s bestselling classic with a foreword by Nikki Giovanni
Jubilee tells the true story of Vyry, the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress. Vyry bears witness to the South’s antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction.
Weaving her...
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