{"product_id":"voices-from-the-mississippi-hill-country-9781496828811","title":"Voices from the Mississippi Hill Country","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVoices from the Mississippi Hill Country is a collection of interviews with residents of Benton County, Mississippi--an area with a long and fascinating civil rights history. The product of more than twenty-five years of work by the Hill Country Project, this volume examines a revolutionary period in American history through the voices of farmers, teachers, sharecroppers, and students. No other rural farming county in the American South has yet been afforded such a deep dive into its civil rights experiences and their legacies. These accumulated stories truly capture life before, during, and after the movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors' approach places the region's history in context and reveals everyday struggles. African American residents of Benton County had been organizing since the 1930s. Citizens formed a local chapter of the NAACP in the 1940s and '50s. One of the first Mississippi counties to get a federal registrar under the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Benton achieved the\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50051600253271,"sku":"9781496828811","price":21.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496828811.jpg?v=1740364025","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/voices-from-the-mississippi-hill-country-9781496828811","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}