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MISSISSIPPI’S LITERARY HERITAGE – Chapter 12

MISSISSIPPI’S LITERARY HERITAGE – Chapter 12. RICHARD WRIGHT. *KNOWN FOR WORKS OF SOCIAL PROTEST. *AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVIST. GREW UP IN JACKSON. *HE HAD THE FIRST BEST SELLING NOVEL BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER. EUDORA WELTY. *WON THE PULITZER PRIZE. BORN IN JACKSON.

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MISSISSIPPI’S LITERARY HERITAGE – Chapter 12

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  1. MISSISSIPPI’S LITERARY HERITAGE – Chapter 12

  2. RICHARD WRIGHT • *KNOWN FOR WORKS OF SOCIAL PROTEST. • *AFRICAN AMERICAN ACTIVIST. • GREW UP IN JACKSON. • *HE HAD THE FIRST BEST SELLING NOVEL BY AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WRITER.

  3. EUDORA WELTY • *WON THE PULITZER PRIZE. • BORN IN JACKSON. • *WROTE ABOUT SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ISSUES.

  4. IDA B. WELLS • FROM HOLLY SPRINGS. • *WROTE ABOUT CIVIL RIGHTS. • *WROTE ABOUT WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE. • *VERY INVOLVED IN THE NAACP.

  5. WILLIAM FAULKNER • LIVED IN OXFORD (WHERE OLE MISS IS LOCATED) • *WROTE ABOUT THE DECLINE OF SOUTHERN VALUES. • *WON A NOBEL PRIZE.

  6. MUSIC • GUIDED READING PAGE 324 • 1. WHO ARE 2 OF THE BEST KNOWN MUSICIANS • 2. WHERE WAS ROBERT JOHNSON BORN? • 3. WHAT WERE SOME OF ROBERT JOHNSONS THEMES? • 4. WHAT WAS JIMMY RODGERS NICKNAME? • 5. HOW MANY SONGS DID JIMMY RODGERS WRITE?

  7. FAMOUS MUSICIANS • CHARLEY PATTON (BLUES) • *B.B. KING (BLUES) • *FAITH HILL (COUNTRY) • *ELVIS (ROCK AND ROLL) • LEONTYNE PRICE

  8. Tennessee Williams • *He is perhaps the best-known play-wright in American Literature.

  9. Shelby Foote: known for his fine multi-volume history of the Civil War.

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