Sweet Sixteen Edition

An alphabet book about things in or relating to Mississippi, from azaleas and armadillos to Yazoo and the great Jackson zoo.

They stand as unselfconscious as if the photograph were being taken at a church picnic and not during one of the pitched battles of the civil rights struggle. N

The true story of a young black man's quest: to canoe the length of the Mississippi River from Minnesota to New Orleans.

A father and son present an eloquent portrait and personal evocations of modern Mississippi in this book which contemplates the realities of the present day, as