Mississippi: A Guide to the Magnolia State (Classic Reprint)

HERE is a book which takes us vividly into the South in the first period
of its greatness and brings us by natural steps up to the contemporary scene
where a new South is in the making. To the visitor Mississippi offers mod
ern methods of agriculture in the northern Delta region, a playground on
the Gulf Coast, and some of the finest examples of old plantation archi
tecture in Natchez and its other historic towns. This Guide, with its charm,
its occasional irony, and its comprehensiveness, could have been written
only from self-knowledge and from a knowledge of modern America. It
is the modest yet proud statement of their accomplishments by the people
of this Gulf State.

Table of Contents

FOREWORD, By Harry 1 Hopkins, Administrator; PREFACE, By the State Director and State Editor; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS; LIST OF MAPS; NOTATIONS ON THE USE OF THE BOOK; GENERAL INFORMATION; CALENDAR OF EVENTS; 1 Mississippi: The General Background; MISSISSIPPI PAST AND PRESENT; What Is Mississippi?; White Folkways; Negro Folkways; BEFORE THE WHITE MAN CAME; Natural Setting; Archeology and Indians; THE STATE IN THE MAKING; An Outline of Four Centuries; Transportation; Agriculture; Industry and Commerce; Religion; Education; The Press; THE CREATIVE EFFORT; Arts and Letters; Architecture; Music; II Main Street and Courthouse Square; (CITY AND TOWN DESCRIPTIONS AND CITY TOURS); Biloxi 165; Columbus 179; Greenwood 189; Gulfport 194; Holly Springs 200; Jackson 208; Laurel 222; Meridian 227; Natchez 233; Oxford 254; Tupelo 261; Vicksburg 266; III Tours; TOUR 1 (Mobile, Ala)-Biloxi-Gulfport-; (New Orleans, La) [us 9o} 285; lA Gulfport to Ship Island 303; 2 (Livingston, Ala )-Meridian-Jackson-; Vicksburg-(Monroe, La) [us 80J 304; 3 (Memphis, Tenn )-Clarksdale-Vicksburg-; Natchez-(Baton Rouge, La) [us 61J; Section a Tennessee Line to Vicksburg; Sect