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North Toward Home

Biographies & Memoirs

Willie Morris

Historical

Yoknapatawpha Press

Contains over 600 historical photos, which record the twelve major college teams of the South (Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, FSU, Georgia, LSU, SMU, Tennessee, Texas, UNC and Vanderbilt).

Football Powers Of The South: Louisiana State University Fighting Tigers (LSU)

Sports & Outdoors

Wells, Lawrence

Football (American)

From dust jacket notes: "The distinctive southern voice of James A. Autry continues in his second book of verse, Life After Mississippi. As the title indicates, Autry takes us on a personal voyage beyond his Mississippi roots to the corporate world where he currently is president of magazine publishing at The Meredith Corporation. Autry faithfully records the voices he hears, both past and present, amid the joy and pain of living. He is, as Willie Morris writes in his Introduction, 'an observer whose task it is to remind us of those small but important details that add up to a significant understanding.' Throughout Autry's work there is a simple faith in mankind, in the best that people can be. Life After Mississippi makes us stop and listen to a country preacher saving souls, an Air Force ground control operator trying to save a pilot's life, a father trying to understand his son, a young man grappling with the social prejudices of his native land. Yet Autry also knows the deep silenc

Life After Mississippi

Literature & Fiction

James Autry

Poetry

A coffee-table-sized photo-history containing 120 photographs, many previously unpublished, of the 1962 riot over the admission of James Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, taken by photographer Edwin E. Meek; Introduction by Curtis Wilkie, Afterword by Governor William Winter. On Sept. 30, 1962, when a riot occurred at Ole Miss protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, Edwin Meek, then 22, a staff photographer for the university, stayed up all night taking over 500 photos including exclusive pictures of Meredith attending class. Meek is the Matthew Brady of the crisis, and with this book he has created an amazing document for the ages. (William Doyle, author of An American Insurrection)

Riot: Witness to Anger and Change

Arts & Photography

Edwin E. Meek

Photography & Video

Belle-Duck at The Peabody

Children's Books

Wells, Dean Faulkner

Animals

On the 55th anniversary of the 1962 crisis at Ole Miss, Kathleen Wickham traces the footsteps of twelve American journalists and explores the unsolved murder of Paul Guihard, a French reporter killed during the ensuing riot. When James Meredith sought to become the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi, more than 300 reporters descended on the small town of Oxford only to face threats and beatings, snipers on rooftops, and a retired army general calling for a volunteer army to save the university. Bob Schieffer observes, Wickham gives well-deserved credit to twelve men and women who risked their lives to tell the story. TV cameraman Gordon Yoder and his wife Irene were attacked by protestors, and Fred Powledge of the Atlanta Journal bore witness. Karl Fleming of Newsweek and Life freelance-photographer Flip Schulke braved tear gas and snipers to obtain interviews and photos. Sidna Brower, student editor of The Mississippian, called for calm. State troopers turned Moses Newson of the Baltimore Afro-American away from the campus. Newsday s Michael Dorman sought to define the mood of the state through the writings of William Faulkner. Dorothy Gilliam of The Washington Post interviewed African-Americans living in Oxford. Neal Gregory of The Commercial Appeal sought out local ministers for insight and perspective. NBC s Richard Valeriani and CBS Dan Rather utilized the raw power of broadcast news; and Claude Sitton of the The New York Times rented a plane to cover news in the state capitol and the battle looming in Oxford.

We Believed We Were Immortal: Twelve Reporters Who Covered the 1962 Integration Crisis at Ole Miss

Kathleen Wickham

Community & Culture

PORTALS is the debut art album of Glennray Tutor, a painter listed among the top 50 hyperrealists in the world. Tutor is known for his use of bright colors, detail, and metaphor. At first glance his paintings look like photos but they are paintings with incredible detail. Tutor’s early landscape paintings celebrate the unsung corners of the Deep South and his later still life paintings push the edge of American pop art. His still life subject matter consists of small commonplace artifacts of daily life such as canning jars, cola bottles, toys, marbles, comic books, and fireworks. “Glennray Tutor’s metaphorical paintings look at dimensions beyond our realization. Universes, emotions, ideas–here existing as translucent marbles–constantly affect our two dimensional reality, causing us to fall in love, feel loss or believe in something more as their colors shine across us without our even knowing." (Juxtapoz)

Portals

Tutor, Glennray

MISSISSIPPI is a collection of 77 poems from James A. Autry's Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi. The author, a former U.S. Air Force pilot, newspaper reporter, national magazine editor and Fortune 500 executive, returns to his Mississippi roots to examine the forces which shaped him. Autry's narrative verse focuses on the rhythms of rural southern life, an odyssey of country funerals, weddings, church revivals, family reunions, and courtships drawn from a unique American heritage….The landscape of Autry's memories is familiar to anyone who has heard the voice of the whippoorwill or the baying of hounds in the night or who has savored the smell of fresh-turned earth.(The Atlanta Journal) Autry writes of farm life, of revival meetings and teenage romance, of weddings and reunions and funerals, in vivid, sensuous detail. His sure hand moves with gentleness through his material. (The Richmond News Leader)

Mississippi: Nights Under A Tin Roof and Life After Mississippi

Autry, James A.

William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection is a photo-biography about the life and work of Nobel laureate William Faulkner depicting his childhood in Oxford, Mississippi, his family members, his student days at the University of Mississippi, and his growing success as an author; shown also are the ruined southern mansions, farms and country stores which Faulkner wrote about in his fictitional “Yoknapatawpha County”; featuring the iconic images of Faulkner by his family photographers, J. R. Cofield, Jack Cofield, and others; coffee table size, 302 photographs, 214 pages. "This family album out of Yoknapatawpha country is a more satisfying answer to what Faulkner was like than many more formal biographies." (Robert Wells, The Milwaukee Journal)"A superb photo-biography… A treasure trove that in its unvarnished simplicity richly illuminates the life and work of America’s finest novelist." (Henry Kisor, The Chicago Sun-Times):The author and his Yoknapatawpha County grow a good deal more imaginable and accessible and rather less formidable in the pages of this delightful book." (Charles Champlin, The Los Angeles Times)

William Faulkner: The Cofield Collection

Cofield, Jack

Math Tools for Journalists

Reference

Wickham EdD, Dr. Kathleen W.

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