Mississippi and the Great Depression

Putnam, Richelle; Williams, Diane (FRW)

ISBN 10: 1467118761 / ISBN 13: 9781467118767

Published by The History Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mississippi and the Great Depression
• Publisher: The History Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1467118761
• ISBN 13: 9781467118767
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Expertly combining prior scholarship with primary sources, in Mississippi and the Great Depression historian Richelle Putnam details how this crisis impacted the lives of Mississippians during some of our state's most harrowing years. Bringing national events into local settings, and traveling city by city, almost farm by farm from the Delta to the Coast, Putnam illuminates the experiences of locals from all races,classes, faiths, and vocations. Putnam's account is not just the story of resilience under Jim Crow, the invention of Masonite, or the origin of slugburgers--rather, it is the story of the search for dignity amid adversity and hope within despair. Rarely have the lives of our ancestors been held in such warm and knowing hands. ~ Benjamin Morris, author of Hattiesburg, Mississippi: A History of the Hub City (Arcadia/The History Press, 2014)

About the Author

Richelle Putnam is the managing editor for The Bluegrass Standard, as well as aMississippi Arts Commission (MAC) Teaching Artist/Roster Artist (Literary), aMississippi Humanities Speaker, and a 2014 MAC Literary Arts Fellowshiprecipient. Her YA biography, TheInspiring Life of Eudora Welty (The History Press, April 2014), receivedthe 2014 Moonbeam Children's Book Awards Silver Medal.  Her non-fictionbooks include Lauderdale County,Mississippi; a Brief History (The History Press, 2011), Legendary Locals of Meridian, Mississippi(Arcadia Publishing 2013) and Mississippiand the Great Depression. Her literary work has been published in Pif Magazine, The Copperfield Review,Birmingham Arts Journal and several bestselling anthologies. As afreelance writer, her work can be found in Town& Gown, Mississippi, Parents & Kids, Well Being, Portico, and Social South magazines.