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Birds and Birding on the Mississippi Coast

Birds of Mississippi

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Black Cloud, White Cloud

The Black Cultural Front: Black Writers and Artists of the Depression Generation

Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

Black Exodus: The Great Migration from the American South

Black Greek-Letter Organizations 2.0: New Directions in the Study of African American Fraternities and Sororities

A Black Physician's Story: Bringing Hope in Mississippi

Black Power, Yellow Power, and the Making of Revolutionary Identities

Black Rock : A Zuni Cultural Landscape and the Meaning of Place

Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans

Black Velvet Art

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Black-Jewish Relations on Trial: Leo Frank and Jim Conley in the New South

Bloody Mary in the Mirror: Essays in Psychoanalytic Folkloristics

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Bluebeard: A Reader's Guide to the English Tradition

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Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues, Third Edition

Blues Traveling: The Holy Sites of Delta Blues

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Boomerang and Never Die

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Brierfield: Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis

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Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration

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On the Horizon: Scotty and Elvis

When Elvis Presley first showed up at Sam Phillips’s Memphis-based Sun Records studio, he was a shy teenager in search of a sound. Phillips invited a local guitarist named Scotty Moore to stand in. Scotty listened carefully to the young singer and immediately realized that Elvis had something special.  Along with bass player Bill Black, the trio recorded an old blues number called “That’s All

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