Newton County Citizens
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Podcast Episode: The Voice That Time Almost Lost: Sitting on Aunt Mary’s Porch in Newton County
Pip: There is a version of history that lives in census columns and deed books, and…
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The Voice That Time Almost Lost: Sitting on Aunt Mary’s Porch in Newton County
How a 101-year-old woman’s interview preserved one of Newton County’s last firsthand memories of slavery “It…
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Podcast Episode: the unwritten laws of newton county
Pip: A death certificate is supposed to close the file. For Richard Ware of Newton County,…
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the unwritten laws of newton county
the unwritten laws of newton county what one man’s death certificate reveals about the jim crow…
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Podcast Episode: The Record Keepers: How the Whitehead Women Wrote Black Mississippi
Pip: History has a way of remembering the loudest voices in the room — the editors,…
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Podcast Episode: The Master of the Deed: How Allen Rigsby Outpaced the Crop-Lien System
Pip: There's a version of Black history in the post-Reconstruction South that ends with the crop-lien…
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Podcast Episode: The Vanishing Class
Pip: Dust-coated record rooms aren't where most people expect to find a revolution, but here we…
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Podcast Episode: The Merchant King of Newton: The Rise and Ruin of W.B. Richardson, Sr.
Pip: Our Unique Stories has a way of finding the people history decided to simplify —…
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Podcast Episode: Grant, Johnson, Garfield: A Black Mississippi Family and the Politics of Hope
Pip: Three presidential names, one Black Mississippi family, and census records that quietly refuse to stay…
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The Merchant King of Newton: The Rise and Ruin of W.B. Richardson, Sr.
History has a way of softening the edges of power. In the 1936 obituaries and the…