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History and Current Events March 2017
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Rankin County Historical Society Brandon Library March 21, 7:00-8:00 p.m. Join us for History and fellowship. The public is invited. Refreshments provided. For further information see Anne, Brandon Genealogy Librarian, email brgen@cmrls.lib.ms.us or call 601.825.2672. DNA Discovery Group Brandon Library March 16, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Understand the differences in DNA tests and testing companies, Learn about, discuss and test out different databases to use to enhance your Family History research. Bring your laptop if desire. FREE. For questions concerning this group contact brgen@cmrls.lib.ms.us.
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Smith County Genealogy Raleigh Library March 11, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 noon Monthly meeting. The public is invited. Scott County Historical and Genealogical Society Forest Library March 18, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. Monthly meeting. The public is invited. 8-) CMRLS genealogy and local history libraries are Brandon Library in Rankin County, Forest Library in Scott County, Magee Library in Simpson County, and Raleigh Library in Smith County. For hours and contact information see
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Out in the Rural : A Mississippi Health Center and Its War on Poverty
by Jr. Ward, Thomas J.
Out in the Rural is the unlikely story of the Tufts-Delta Health Center, which in 1966 opened in Mound Bayou, Mississippi, to become the first rural community health center in the United States. Its goal was simple: to provide health care and outreach to the region's thousands of rural poor,most of them black sharecroppers who had lived without any medical resources for generations.In Out in the Rural, historian Thomas J. Ward explores the health center's story alongside the remarkable life of its founder, Dr. H. Jack Geiger. A former teenage runaway, through a serendipitous turn of events he was befriended and taken in by the actor and Harlem Renaissance icon Canada Lee. Leewould later loan Geiger money for college, and after stints as a journalist and Merchant Marine, Geiger attended medical school and became a physician.Geiger's personal history brings a profound human element to what was accomplished deep in the Mississippi Delta. In addition to providing medical care, the staff of the Tufts-Delta Health Center worked upstream to address the fundamental determinants of health-factors such as education, poverty,nutrition, and the environment-and ask the question, "What does it take to stay healthy?"Equal parts social history and personal history, Out in the Rural is a story of both community health and of a stranger's kindness and determination to bring health care to areas out of reach.
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| The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First-Century Refugee Crisis by Patrick KingsleyChronicling the experiences of a single Syrian migrant and documenting the journeys of thousands of refugees from several Middle Eastern countries, journalist Patrick Kingsley paints a gut-wrenching picture of the current humanitarian crisis. Zooming in on duplicitous smugglers who advertise their services on Facebook, comparing the numbers of refugees to the population of Europe (0.2%), and highlighting rescue work by particular volunteers, Kingsley includes his personal views on these migrations by people fleeing from danger, while backing up his observations with impersonal data. For a deep, eye-opening exploration of this subject, check out The New Odyssey. |
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| The Blood of Emmett Till by Timothy B. TysonAlso available as downloadable eBook. Though several books have covered the 60-year-old case of Emmett Till's lynching in Mississippi, historian Timothy Tyson's new history freshly illuminates the trial of Till's murderers. He analyzes the trial transcript, which had been missing since 1955, interviews the key witness (now 80 years old) to Till's allegedly inappropriate behavior, and provides details from a recent FBI investigation. This riveting account immerses readers in the case and offers the definitive summary of its impact on subsequent history. For an absorbing study of one aspect of the case, try John Edgar Wideman's Writing to Save a Life, which focuses on Emmett's father Louis Till. |
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Margaret Fuller : an American romantic life
by Charles Capper
A comprehensive biography of the intellectual, including how she established her identity during the Romantic Age, how she engaged with the movements of her time, and how she articulated a vision for her nation's culture and politics.
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| The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age by Myra MacPhersonIn their activities that sound like feminist initiatives of a century later, sisters Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin shocked and fascinated Gilded Age America and the world: together they opened the first woman-owned stock brokerage; Victoria ran for president, choosing Frederick Douglass to join her ticket; Tennie ran for Congress and became the honorary colonel of a black National Guard regiment. They also published a newspaper and exposed prominent citizens' misdeeds through their investigative reporting. In The Scarlet Sisters, journalist Myra MacPherson vividly portrays their campaign to improve the status of women. For a compelling episode in 19th-century women's history, be sure to read this well-researched and engaging dual biography. |
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| Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady by Kate SummerscalePopular historian Kate Summerscale delves once more into Victorian society's dirty little secrets. Legal divorce was made available to England's common citizens for the first time in 1858. The same year, Henry Robinson sued for divorce after finding a secret diary in which his wife had allegedly penned erotic musings about her doctor. Isabella dared to counter-sue, presenting the court with (among other evidence of marital neglect) Henry's two illegitimate children as proof of his adultery. Summerscale seamlessly weaves private letters, newspaper stories, public documents, and Isabella's infamous diary into a moving portrait of history's real "Mrs. Robinson." |
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Contact your librarian for more great books!
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Central Mississippi Regional Library System
100 Tamberline Street
Brandon, Mississippi 39042
601-825-0100
http://www.cmrls.lib.ms.us
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