Author: MississippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
The Annotated Code of the General Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi
Author: MississippiJournal of the State Convention, and Ordinances and Resolutions Adopted in March, 1861
Author: Mississippi. ConventionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Heroes, Rascals, and the Law
Author: James L. RobertsonPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496819950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
James L. Robertson focuses on folk encountering their constitutions and laws, in their courthouses and country stores, and in their daily lives, animating otherwise dry and inaccessible parchments. Robertson begins at statehood and continues through war and depression, well into the 1940s. He tells of slaves petitioning for freedom, populist sentiments fueling abnegation of the rule of law, the state’s many schemes for enticing Yankee capital to lift a people from poverty, and its sometimes tragic, always colorful romance with whiskey after the demise of national Prohibition. Each story is sprinkled with fascinating but heretofore unearthed facts and circumstances. Robertson delves into the prejudices and practices of the times, local landscapes, and daily life and its dependence on our social compact. He offers the unique perspective of a judge, lawyer, scholar, and history buff, each role having tempered the lessons of the others. He focuses on a people, enriching encounters most know little about. Tales of understanding and humanity covering 130 years of heroes, rascals, and ordinary folk—with a bundle of engaging surprises—leave the reader pretty sure there’s nothing quite like Mississippi history told by a sage observer.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia
Author: Ted OwnbyPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496811593
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1461
Book Description
Recipient of the 2018 Special Achievement Award from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Recipient of a 2018 Heritage Award for Education from the Mississippi Heritage Trust The perfect book for every Mississippian who cares about the state, this is a mammoth collaboration in which thirty subject editors suggested topics, over seven hundred scholars wrote entries, and countless individuals made suggestions. The volume will appeal to anyone who wants to know more about Mississippi and the people who call it home. The book will be especially helpful to students, teachers, and scholars researching, writing about, or otherwise discovering the state, past and present. The volume contains entries on every county, every governor, and numerous musicians, writers, artists, and activists. Each entry provides an authoritative but accessible introduction to the topic discussed. The Mississippi Encyclopedia also features long essays on agriculture, archaeology, the civil rights movement, the Civil War, drama, education, the environment, ethnicity, fiction, folklife, foodways, geography, industry and industrial workers, law, medicine, music, myths and representations, Native Americans, nonfiction, poetry, politics and government, the press, religion, social and economic history, sports, and visual art. It includes solid, clear information in a single volume, offering with clarity and scholarship a breadth of topics unavailable anywhere else. This book also includes many surprises readers can only find by browsing.
Mississippi Official and Statistical Register
Author: Constitution of the State of Mississippi
Author: MississippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutions
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Laws of the State of Mississippi
Author: MississippiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Session laws
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Mississippi Moonshine Politics
Author: Janice Branch TracyPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1626197601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to a state of legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The Magnolia State went dry over a decade before the nation, leaving bootleggers to establish political and financial holds they were unwilling to lose. For nearly sixty years, bootlegging flourished, and Mississippi became known as the "wettest dry state in the country." Law enforcement tried in vain to control crime that followed each empty bottle. Until statewide prohibition was finally repealed in 1966, illegal booze fueled a corrupt political machine that intimidated journalists who dared to speak against it and fixed juries that threatened its interests. Author and native Mississippian Janice Branch Tracy delivers an intimate look at the story of Mississippi's moonshine empire.
O'CONNOR'S FEDERAL RULES
Author: Concealed Weapon Carry
Author: Rick WardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780982809952
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
A "how-to-do" and "what-not-to-do" book for anyone planning to carry a gun in Mississippi. A must-have publication with information for permit holders of other states having reciprocal agreements with Mississippi. Don't come armed to Mississippi without it. The author covers everything from firearms safety, to nomenclature, judgmental shooting, post-shooting considerations, as well as a review and analysis of significant citizen shooting engagements around the country. Told in a down-to-earth manner, with explicit photographs and sometimes candid humor. It defines training required under Mississippi's new "enhanced" carry law, over and above what the state has mandated. It is a benchmark for other states to follow. Told by an expert.