Hidden History of Jackson

by Josh Foreman, Ryan Starrett

Overview

The history of Jackson is filled with gripping tales of horrors and heroism. Join Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman as they reveal the hidden past of the City with Soul.

A recording company founded in the mid-1960s with the expectation of competing with New Orleans and Memphis was a national success, outlasting its better-funded rivals. Known as the "Devil's Backbone," the Natchez Trace is the graveyard for countless travelers slain by the road's numerous serial killers, brigands and land pirates. Yet one mass grave stands above the others: the Boyd Mounds, which hold the remains of thirty-one Choctaws. Although legend has it that the father of Jackson, Louis LeFleur, was a Canadian trapper famous in high society for his dancing, the truth is even stranger.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467138970
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/12/2018
Series:	Hidden History
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	1,055,756
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Ryan Starrett was birthed and reared in Jackson, Mississippi. After receiving degrees from the University of Dallas, Adams State University and Spring Hill College, as well as spending a ten-year hiatus in Texas, he has returned home to continue his teaching career. He lives in Madison with his wife, Jackie, and two children, Joseph Padraic and Penelope Rose.

Josh Foreman was born and raised in the Jackson metro area. He is a sixth-generation Mississippian and an eleventh-generation southerner. He lived, taught and wrote in South Korea from 2005 to 2014. He holds degrees from Mississippi State University and the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, with his wife, Melissa, and his two children, Keeland and Genevieve.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 11

Part I Early Jackson, 1700s-1830s

Where the Choctaw Lived 13

Louis LeFleur, Folk Hero 18

Silas Dinsmore, Who Earned Jackson's Ire 24

Jackson, from the Mind of Jefferson 30

Part II The Frontier Capital, 1830s-1890s

Runaway Slaves, Running in Jackson 37

Madison County's Great Slave Rebellion 43

The Tenacity of the Manship Family 50

A City Sacked, a Church Defiled 56

A Barbecue Becomes a Conflagration 61

A Fever Falls on Jackson 70

Part III A City in Flux, 1890s-1940s

Whiskey Bent and Jackson Bound: The Saga of the Decell Family 77

Tigers, Teetotalers and the Fight for the Jackson Saloon 82

The Greater University that Never Was 87

Pilots and POWs: World War II Arrives in Jackson 92

Part IV Jackson Comes of Age, 1950s-Present

Joseph Brunini, the Liberal Bishop 103

A Funeral Becomes a Fracas: The Aftermath of the Medgar Evers Funeral 111

Derek Singleton, Who Quietly Integrated Jackson's Schools 117

The Triumph and Tainting of the Pearl River Reservoir 123

Revenge of the Pearl 130

Tommy Couch, Local Mogul 137

Notes 145

Bibliography 161

Index 171

About the Authors 175

Editorial Reviews

Ryan Starrett and Josh Foreman reveal the hidden past of the City with Soul in this book of gripping tales of horrors and heroism. Portico Magazine


Perhaps others among you received a more comprehensive education at your own schooling or by your own volition, but for anybody who considers themselves a true Jacksonian, I cannot recommend highly enough Josh Foreman and Ryan Starrett's Hidden History of Jackson. Lemuria Blog




"Foreman and Starrett, both Mississippi natives, capture the history of Jackson as they tell the story and reveal the hidden past of the City with Soul. Through a collection of stories, learn more about people and places that set the foundation for Mississippi's capital city. " Mississippi Magazine

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