 | Extraordinary Circumstances: The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower by Cynthia Cooper
Buy new: $18.45 / Used from: $2.61 Cooper is a native of Clinton, Mississippi who blew the whistle on massive accounting fraud at WorldCom. Recently spoke on C-SPAN's BookTV about her experience.
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 | Alice Walker: A Life by Evelyn C. White
Buy new: $12.21 / Used from: $1.95 Walker lived in Mississippi where she was involved with registration drives, campaigns for welfare rights, and children's programs. When she married Mel Levanthal in 1965, they became the first legally married inter-racial couple in the state.
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 | In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women by Alice Walker
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $0.78 |
 | Pema Chodron and Alice Walker in Conversation: On the Meaning of Suffering and the Mystery of Joy by Pema Chodron
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $8.51 |
 | Why War Is Never a Good Idea by Alice Walker
Buy new: $14.03 / Used from: $4.05 |
 | Grand Theft Jesus: The Hijacking of Religion in America by Robert S. McElvaine
Buy new: $20.47 / Used from: $2.77 McElvaine is the chair of the Department of History at Milsaps College in Jackson.
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 | The Autobiography Of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches by Myrlie Evers-Williams
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $0.01 Civil rights martyr Medgar Evers was born in Decatur.
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 | Of Long Memory: Mississippi and the Murder of Medgar Evers by Adam Nossiter
Buy new: $17.50 / Used from: $2.14 |
 | Have No Fear: The Charles Evers Story by Charles Evers
Buy new: $21.95 / Used from: $5.19 |
 | For Us, the Living (Banner Books) by Myrlie Evers
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $0.98 |
 | The Price of Defiance: James Meredith and the Integration of Ole Miss by Charles W. Eagles
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $19.94 |
 | We Are Not Afraid: The Story of Goodman, Schwerner, and Chaney, and the Civil Rights Campaign for Mississippi by Seth Cagin
Buy new: $15.34 / Used from: $0.39 James Chaney was born in Meridian.
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 | Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World) by John Dittmer
Buy new: $21.37 / Used from: $8.49 |
 | Singing in a Strange Land: C. L. Franklin, the Black Church, and the Transformation of America by Nick Salvatore
Buy new: $27.95 / Used from: $0.01 Clarence LaVaughn Franklin was born in Shelby.
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 | Aretha Franklin: The Queen of Soul by Mark Bego
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $2.50 Clarence is Aretha's Dad.
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 | This Little Light of Mine: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) by Kay Mills
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $15.99 Hamer was born in Ruleville.
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 | For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer (Women in American History) by Chana Kai Lee
Buy new: $16.20 / Used from: $7.29 |
 | A Pan-American Life: Selected Poetry and Prose of Muna Lee (The Americas) by Muna Lee
Buy new: $24.95 / Used from: $5.87 Poet and human rights activist Lee was born in Raymond.
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 | Morgan Freeman and Friends: Caribbean Cooking for a Cause by Wendy Wilkinson
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $1.92 Freeman was born in Greenwood.
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 | Domestic Work by Natasha Trethewey
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $3.99 Trethewey, who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was born in Gulfport.
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 | Native Guard: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $1.49 |
 | Richard Wright: The Life and Times by Hazel Rowley
Buy used from: $0.55 Wright was born in Adams County. The CIA and FBI had Wright under surveillance for years.
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 | The Outsider by Richard Wright
Buy used from: $0.75 |
 | Native Son: The Story of Richard Wright (World Writers) by Joyce Hart
Buy new: $26.95 / Used from: $0.48 |
 | Witnessing Lynching: American Writers Respond
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $6.19 |
 | What I Know for Sure: My Story of Growing Up in America by Tavis Smiley
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $0.01 Smiley was born in Gulfport.
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 | The Covenant with Black America by Tavis Smiley
Buy new: $8.57 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | The Covenant In Action
Buy new: $8.50 / Used from: $0.01 |
 | Empowerment Cards (Large Card Decks) by Tavis Smiley
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $7.35 |
 | The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.69 Emmett Till's murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement.
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 | An American Insurrection: James Meredith and the Battle of Oxford, Mississippi, 1962 by William Doyle
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.98 Meredith was born in Kosciusko.
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 | Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $5.33 |
 | "They Say": Ida B. Wells and the Reconstruction of Race (New Narratives in American History) by James West Davidson
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $5.18 Feminist and anti-lynching crusader Wells was a grad of Rust College.
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 | On Lynchings (Classics in Black Studies) by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Buy new: $13.84 / Used from: $6.95 |
 | New Moon Daughter by Cassandra Wilson
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $0.01 Wilson was born in Jackson.
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 | The Way Out: The Gay Man's Guide to Freedom No Matter if You're in Denial, Closeted, Half In, Half Out, Just Out or Been Around the Block by Chris Nutter
Buy new: $11.21 / Used from: $3.84 Nutter is a graduate of Millsaps College in Jackson.
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 | The Writing Life by Ellen Gilchrist
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $18.00 Author and NPR commentator Gilchrist was born in Vicksburg.
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 | Up Close: Oprah Winfrey by Ilene Cooper
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.15 Winfrey was born in Kosciusko.
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 | Jim Henson: The Works - The Art, the Magic, the Imagination by Christopher Finch
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $18.00 Henson was born in Leland.
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 | Grass
Buy new: $27.49 / Used from: $5.90 Mississippi is one of only a few states that have decriminalized possession of marijuana. Thirty grams or less is punishable only by a fine of $100-$250 for the first offense with no jail time.
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