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Highway 61: Heart of the Delta celebrates the Mississippi Delta in words and pictures. Edited by Randall Norris with photographs by award-winning photographer Jean Philippe Cypres, thisvolume brings to life this storied region of the South. Actor Morgan Freeman provides a foreword in which he recounts his personal history as a child in the Delta and discusses why he was pulled back to his ancestral home, despite its challenges. This book brings together essays by noted Delta writers and scholars, interviews with Delta residents from all walks of life, and vivid photographs that document the region, as well as an original poem by famed poet Nikki Giovanni. The essay writers touch on a variety of themes from cultural landmarks to racial issues to the struggle for Civil Rights, providing the reader with a guide to important themes of the area's history and culture. The section "Voices of th

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Book category Books in English Reference, information & interdisciplinary subjects Interdisciplinary studies Regional studies

• Full title: Highway 61
• Subtitle: Heart of the Delta
• Author: Randall Norris, Jean-Phili Cypres
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 164
• EAN: 9781572336148
• ISBN: 9781572336148
• ID: 06338986
• Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
• Weight: 744 g
• Dimensions: 263 × 210 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. March 2008

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