Delta Deep Down

Author : Wendy McDaris
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781604730890
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delta Deep Down written by Wendy McDaris and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2008 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stunning photographs in this collection capture the land, people, and ever-present spirits of those who live along the Mississippi Delta.

Author : Richard Grant
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476709645
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dispatches from Pluto written by Richard Grant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Yorkers Grant and his girlfriend Mariah decided on a whim to buy an old plantation house in the Mississippi Delta. This is their journey of discovery to a remote, isolated strip of land, three miles beyond the tiny community of Pluto. They learn to hunt, grow their own food, and fend off alligators, snakes, and varmints galore. They befriend an array of unforgettable local characters, capture the rich, extraordinary culture of the Delta, and delve deeply into the Delta's lingering racial tensions. As the nomadic Grant learns to settle down, he falls not just for his girlfriend but for the beguiling place they now call home.

Author : Matthew Van Meter
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0316435023
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Delta Justice written by Matthew Van Meter and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the documentary A Crime on the Bayou 2021 Chautauqua Prize Finalist The "arresting, astonishing history" of one lawyer and his defendant who together achieved a "civil rights milestone" (Justin Driver). In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful white supremacists in the South, a man called simply "The Judge." In this powerful work of character-driven history, journalist Matthew Van Meter vividly brings alive how a seemingly minor incident brought massive, systemic change to the criminal justice system. Using first-person interviews, in-depth research and a deep knowledge of the law, Van Meter shows how Gary Duncan's insistence on seeking justice empowered generations of defendants-disproportionately poor and black-to demand fair trials. Duncan v. Louisiana changed American law, but first it changed the lives of those who litigated it.

Author : Jennifer M. Besel
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1429653825
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Delta Force written by Jennifer M. Besel and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Provides information on the U.S. Delta Force, including their training, missions, and equipment"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Stephen J. Whitfield
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801843266
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Death in the Delta written by Stephen J. Whitfield and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the full, shocking story of the lynching that exposed the true brutality of the nation's tradition of racism to a confident prosperous post-World War II America and helped ignite the 1960s civil rights movement.

Author : Myron Goble
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Down in the Delta written by Myron Goble and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 1998-12-25 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This companion screenplay to the Miramax film directed by Maya Angelou stars Alfre Woodward, Al Freeman Jr., Esther Rolle, Mary Alice, and Wesley Snipes. Down in the Delta is an emotionally riveting story of a troubled family who returns to their roots to rediscover their faith in each other and their future.

Author : Elijah Wald
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062018442
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Escaping the Delta written by Elijah Wald and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America's deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surrounding why Johnson was ignored by the core black audience of his time yet now celebrated as the greatest figure in blues history. Trying to separate myth from reality, biographer Elijah Wald studies the blues from the inside -- not only examining recordings but also the recollections of the musicians themselves, the African-American press, as well as examining original research. What emerges is a new appreciation for the blues and the movement of its artists from the shadows of the 1930s Mississippi Delta to the mainstream venues frequented by today's loyal blues fans.

Author : Robert Palmer
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Blues written by Robert Palmer and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1981 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep Blues" offers a concise, authoritative account of the music's Afircan beginnings, its early evolution, and its transformation from a backcountry good-time music into today's modern blues and rock and roll.

Author : Ted Gioia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393069990
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music written by Ted Gioia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. Combining extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and first-person accounts with “his own calm, argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of Delta blues” (New York Times), this engrossing narrative is flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure “an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself” (Boston Sunday Globe). Rooted in the thick-as-tar Delta soil, Delta Blues is already “a contemporary classic in its field” (Jazz Review).

Author : Stacey Jay
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9781439189887
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dead on the Delta written by Stacey Jay and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time, fairies were the stuff of bedtime stories and sweet dreams. Then came the mutations, and the dre-ams became nightmares. Mosquito-size fairies now indulge their taste for human blood—and for most humans, a fairy bite means insanity or death. Luckily, Annabelle Lee isn’t most humans. The hard-drinking, smart-mouthed, bicycle-riding redhead is immune to fairy venom, and able to do the dirty work most humans can’t. Including helping law enforcement— and Cane Cooper, the bayou’s sexiest detective—collect evidence when a body is discovered outside the fairy-proof barricades of her Louisiana town. But Annabelle isn’t equipped to deal with the murder of a sixyear- old girl or a former lover-turned-FBI snob taking an interest in the case. Suddenly her already bumpy relationship with Cane turns even rockier, and even the most trust-worthy friends become suspects. Annabelle’s life is imploding: between relationship drama, a heartbreaking murder investigation, Breeze-crazed drug runners, and a few too many rum and Cokes, Annabelle is a woman on the run—from her past, toward her future, and into the arms of a darkness waiting just for her. . . .